Ohakim Legacies Echoes Loud As Supporters Clamours For His Return To Power – SIXT-MEDIA LANE

CHIEF (DR) IKEDI GODSON OHAKIM
A PROVEN LEADER, A RECORD OF RESULTS

BRING BACK OHAKIM, BBO 2027
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL
PHONE: 07016616629
EMAIL: INFO@BBO2O27.ORG JULY 2025

LEGACIES THAT SPEAK
Part 4.4

The Agenda that shaped the New Face of Imo State

Clean and Green Initiative
Recovering the environment
Building a culture of cleaning and greening
Promoting the ideal of environment sensitivity
Institutionalizing scientific system of waste management
Making the environment friendly for rehabilitation and investment
An initiative primed to usher in a tourism revolution and create job.

TOURISM PROMOTION

The untapped cash crop of Imo State
Imo wonder Lake and Tourism Project as an entry point to driving an ambitious Tourism development programme
Huge potentials for job creation and improved Internally Generated Revenue (IGR)

Opens up the state to potential investors
Provide platform for useful engagement between our people and visiting tourists

AGRO NOVA (AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT

Introduced Commercial Farming under the Agro Nova Concept with South African Farmers, for the first time, started treating Agriculture as a business, Providing high yielding seedlings to farmers, Made fertilizer and other farming inputs accessible and affordable to farmers through a subsidy regime.

Provided credit facilities to farmers partnering with town union presidents and agricultural societies. A novel approach that ensured that the funding gets to real farmers at the grassroots
Gave vibe to massive rice production in the state.

Established fish farms under Agro Nova
Envisioned building silos to check waste
Developed and distributed 3 million high yielding palm seedlings across the state for free.

Created oil production nursery at Nekede Owerri, Generally came up with support programmes to revolutionize agriculture for food sufficiency, empowerment of farmers and for job creation.

Imo Job Centre and Finishing School
First of its kind in Nigeria, Created to provide data bank on the number of unemployed, determine their areas of specialization, competences, strength and skill, Improve the capacity of our young graduates to be employable and sharpen the skills of others for gainful engagement, Placed over 2000 job seekers in jobs within and outside the state.

Encouraged re-training and aided job switching of graduates
The finishing school trained and secured employment for 300 graduates
Developed the template for the employment of 10,000 graduates in 2010

EDUCATION
Built 35 ultra-modern classroom blocks in the 27 Local Governments
Kept a record in driving the UBEC Programme under the infrastructure development of Primary Schools across the state

Provided learning aids, books and facilities to the Primary and Secondary Schools
Rehabilitated 120 Secondary schools
Upgraded Michael Okpara College of Agriculture to a Polytechnic (Imo State Polytechnic)

Ensured regular accreditation of courses in tertiary institutions in the state
Set up Imo Children’s Education Fund to support education for all
Re-established Imo Scholarship Scheme and awarded 120 foreign scholarship
Drove an education policy that guaranteed qualitative and affordable education and kept the school fees at Imo University at N35,000 per session.

Handed over missionary schools to their owners and kept the teachers on Government payroll.

ROAD
420 kilometres of properly engineered and designed paved roads completed including Isiekenesi/Osina Road.

Gave effect to the realization of the inner and outer ring roads as contained in the original development master plan of the capital territory, 325 kilometres of paved roads under various stages of completion
Started work on the 4 flyovers contained in the Owerri master plan designed to completely address the old traffic bottle necks.

Dubaization of all major roads leading into Owerri
Found permanent solution to the Orji road that successive government could not deal with, Created a development partnership arrangement with contractors that ensured they remained on site all through and made sure that payment plans that are mutually favourable were drawn up and sustained.

Water Supply
Promoted a major policy of making potable water available and accessible
1,325 water schemes rehabilitated across the state,

Introduced the Solar System for powering water supply in response to the challenges of epileptic electricity supply
Massively deployed generators where necessary to ensure that the people have access to clean potable water.
Developed a water master plan to deal with challenges of providing water to people and discourage unregulated sinking of boreholes in private homes with the attendant future negative impact.
Undertook a survey and produced the state water infrastructure map for identification and maintenance

IROMA
A clone of the old Public Works Department (PWD)
Primarily responsible for opening up rural roads and ensuring an all year-round maintenance to enhance movement of people and goods
Ensure regular maintenance of urban roads, Created employment for 6000 youths, engineers and road maintenance hands across the state
Fully equipped with modern earth moving and road rehabilitation equipment.

HEALTH

Got accreditation for the Imo State University college of Medicine leading to the graduation of first Medical Doctors in 2009.

Increased HIV screen and treatment centres from 10 – 45
24 Emergency obstetrics centres (EOCs) established, equipped School of Nursing to make them functional and deliver on mandate, Rehabilitation and equipment of Primary Health Centres across the state
Equipment and Rehabilitation of general hospitals in the three zones of the state.

SECURITY

Operation Festival and the success was a clear manifestation of the effectiveness and efficiency in prudently managing SECURITY VOTE to empower security agencies to perform creditably backed by intelligence and information support from a civilized, properly trained and equipped vigilante.

Imo State Investment Promotion Agency
Set up to drive the industrialization and investment promotion policy under the new face of Imo development agenda.

JUDICIARY

Modernization of the courts in the state
Equipping the courts to improve performance efficiency of the judicial
Provided generators at the living home of judges.

Attracted the appeal court and Federal High court and equipped them for efficiency.

CIVIL SERVICE REFORMS

Computerizing critical departments of the civil service.

Exposing the work force to modern technology through training
Generally ensuring that the civil servants understand the expectations on them under the new development paradigm.

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL
PHONE: 07016616629
EMAIL: INFO@BBO2O27.ORG JULY 2025

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