Critics have accused the Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State of spending huge money on `meaningless projects in a state that had not been able to pay workers and pensioners as and when due’.
Wondering why Okorocha chooses to honour Zuma, ignoring South African anti-apartheid icons, which includes Nelson Mandela, Oliver Thambo and Walter Sisulu.
And now Governor Okorocha is again set to unveil the statue of another African president, weeks after a national outrage over the unveiling of a multi-million naira statue of President Jacob Zuma of South Africa.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent in Owerri reports that Okorocha’s latest statue, a monument of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, is scheduled to be unveiled today Nov. 9.
The statue and two others, including that of Zuma are occupying a pride of place at Freedom Square on Wetheral Road in the Imo Capital.
Zuma’s 30-feet statue was said to have cost a whopping N520 million.
“The Liberia President, Mrs Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is set to arrive our dear Imo State for a two-day working visit on Thursday, 9 Nov. 2017,” Okorocha twitted.
On Oct. 15, Okorocha unveiled Zuma’s gold-cast monument, drawing intense criticism from critics nationwide.
The critics also cited various corruption cases linked to Zuma and the recurring killing of Nigerians in the former apartheid enclave, arguing that giving such honour to Zuma was wrong.
Source: NAN
