From next month Imo State residents will enjoy an uninterrupted 24-hour electricity power supply.
According to Governor Hope Uzodimma, this will be a test run in Owerri metropolis, the state capital, and its environs.
During a stakeholders/expanded state executive council meeting held at the Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu International Conference Centre, Owerri, at the weekend the governor said that in the subsequent months, other areas — Orlu, Okigwe, and Mbaise — would gradually experience the same.
The Urashi Power Plant project, commissioned and empowered by the governor through the enabling law, will undertake the job, he said.
Uzodimma stated that individuals earning less than N150,000 per month would be exempt from paying tax, noting that oil companies operating in the state would be responsible for implementing the policy.
He said that retirees and students would have access to free transportation on the Owerri to Okigwe, Orlu, Aba, Onitsha, and Port Harcourt routes, using the newly procured Compressed Natural Gas-powered metro buses.
He expressed the readiness of his administration to confront insecurity in the state.
On contract awards, the governor said that 50^ of the payments had been made for the execution of ongoing contracts.
He also told his audience that he was not too keen to ask for refunds of funds spent on the federal roads his administration executed, expressing optimism that his successors would get such reimbursements, as his primary aim was to ensure people enjoyed them smoothly.
He emphasised the need to empower the younger generation politically, stressing, ‘we need a new generation of politicians to run the affairs of Imo State”.
