Senator Rochas Okorocha has said that Imo State is gradually turning into Afghanistan.
This is his assessment of the violence the state he governed for eight years, till 1919, is witnessing.
Killings are spreading, abduction is on the rise while there is brutality against security operatives.
Speaking at Eziama-Obaire, Nkwerre Local Government Area of Imo State, during the burial of the mother of his son-in-law, late Ezinne Jemaimah Adanweze Nwosu on Wednesday December 21, Okorocha said many people were not scared to be in Imo.
According to him, some governors and ministers who would have been at the burial but were absent.
He said, “I know there is no job, many are unemployed, but stop spilling the blood of your brothers and sisters no matter the cause of your anger.
“I do not subscribe to bloodletting.
“I know of six governors that wanted to come to Imo State, senators and ministers who wanted to come for the burial, but they could not come because of the situation in the state.
“I want to appeal to you, this killing must stop.
“This is not the Imo I used to know. This is not the Imo I was governor for, for eight years.
“I urge you to wait till 2023 and use your PVC to vote out bad governance.
“Six governors called me and told me that they wanted to be here for the funeral but I told them for them to be here they must have to move about in Amorured Personnel Carriers and hence they couldn’t afford it, they stayed back in their respective states.”
