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  • Kelly Handsome mourns grandmother, blames Imo state government

    Versatile Nigerian pop star, Kelly Handsome has revealed that the death of his grandmother was from complications developed after suffering high blood pressure.

    He noted that his grandmother was distressed by news of the killings and demolition that happened at Eke Ukwu market in Owerri, Imo State, which led to her death.

    In his words: ”Just so you know, my Grandmother died from complications that developed after her blood pressure went up from the news of killings and destruction of the EKE UKWU MARKET in Owerri.

     

    “The fear created by the Chaos and lives lost by the shootings raised her blood pressure too high and this eventually resulted to a heart attack which the doctors tried to manage to no avail”.

     

    He faulted the state government for her demise and sympathized with those who have also lost a loved one and valuables.

     

    “Now she’s gone, never to return. What have I done to deserve this? So this what I get in return from the Imo State Government? Nnu emena.

     

    “To all those that have lost their loved ones or valuables or even both, please take heart. My comfort lies in one unchangeable fact – NA GOD GET POWER.

     

    “Till we meet again Mmakuku, rest in peace. Owerre wu Owerre nwe mmanu, ndewo nu o. Udo”.

  • Pay us our 77 months salary arrears, Imo pensioners tell Okorocha

    Pay us our 77 months salary arrears, Imo pensioners tell Okorocha

    …no pensioners protested, those parading themselves as pensioners are within the active age, CPS alleges

    Following months of accumulated salary arrears owned pensioners in Imo State, scores of pensioners in the State, on Thursday embarked on a peaceful protest to press home their demands.

    The aggrieved pensioners barricaded the Okigwe road as well as the entrance to Government House, Owerri.

    Led by their state Chairman, Chief Gideon Ezeji, the pensioners called on the State Governor, Rochas Okorocha to explain what he did with the bail out fund the state received from the federal government.

    They urged President Muhammadu Buhari to call the State Governor Rochas Okorocha to order.

    Ezeji said Okorocha “behaves and treats senior citizens in the state disrespectfully.

    “Okorocha derives joy in seeing elders in this state come out from time to time to the streets to ask for their pension.

    “What did Okorocha do with the bailout fund that President Buhari gave to him? We are protesting for the third time.”

    The aggrieved pensioners said it was wicked of Okorocha’s government to plan to pay 40 percent of the accumulated arrears and gratuities while making them to forfeit 60 percent of their arrears.

    “We say no to this latest government’s plan to deny us the payment of 60 percent of arrears up to December.

    “As at December 2016, the state owes Imo pensioners between 22 months and 77 months arrears. Our gratuities have remained unpaid since 1998 till date.

    “Also, the government has refused to harmonize our pensions since 2000 to date. All the efforts by the union overseeing the welfare of pensioners have not yielded any fruit”, they stated.

    Reacting to the allegation, the state government through the Chief Press Secretary of the State Governor, Sam Onwuemeodo said those who embarked on the protest were not pensioners of the state.

    A statement by Onwuemeodo reads partly: “No pensioner in the state was part of that protest.

    “Those involved in the exercise were between the ages of 40-45. And we challenge those involved to prove us wrong by publishing their names, their autonomous communities, local government areas, years of retirement, where they retired from and their identification numbers.”