Anxiety and uneasy calm is brewing in Ohaji/Egbema Communities as the Imo State Government intensifies arrangements, to transfer many departments and courses in the institution out of the school's main campus and permanent site at Umuagwo in Ohaji/Egbema LGA. reports nigeriahornnewspapers.
According to the nigeriahornnews report, in the last count, various organizations and youth groups from the area have risen to not only reject the action but also use peaceful and non-violent means to oppose the planned balkanization of the institution. It was learned that while the School of Engineering and Environmental Services would be taken to the Technological Skills Acquisition Centre, TSAC at Orlu as part of the campus, the Business School has been moved to the Cooperative College, Nsu, in Ehime Mbano LGA, while a site at Ikeduru LGA is expected to house another school leaving the main campus at Umuagwo with only the School of Agriculture.
Alarmed at the development, stakeholders from Ohaji/Egbema have strongly risen to oppose the proposed balkanization agenda alleging that it is part of present administration's hidden agenda to annihilate the people of Ohaji/Egbema under 'Rescue Mission' arrangement.
The people of the area regretted that despite the fact that the LGA is an oil producing community with abundant natural resources for economic growth like the Adapalm Palm Plantation, Estate and Multi-million Rubber Estate at Obitti, the present government has persistently schemed them out from the dividends of democracy.
According to several youth groups, the planned relocation will not work out as they would urge government to take away everything and leave their land alone than take away the vital schools and departments.
They decried the action of the governor and some of those at the helm of affairs of the state for sharing Imo State Polytechnic, as part of their political loot to score cheap political point for their people.
It was further gathered that meetings and gatherings against the reported action is going on to challenge the decision even as the people of the area contend that Imo State Polytechnic has no law approving a multi-campus system as there has been no amendment to the 2007 law that established the institution.
In the same vein, reports have it that the people of the area have started reconsidering their relationship with other clans and blocks in Imo State with a view to rejoining their kiths and kin from Rivers State for proper recognition and consideration.
A recent public statement by a group known as Imo Poly Stakeholders Forum did state that in the face of the humiliation and rejection in Imo Community, they would not hesitate to rejoin their kith and kin from Rivers State should the present administration continue to ostracize them.
“How come our Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha wants to balkanize Imo Poly now when the two previous Governors that ruled Imo before him; Chief Achike Udenwa and Ikedi Ohakim, never attempted it? What kind of politics does he want to play with the structures left behind by his predecessors? Is IMSU now his new toy gun” after he failed with IMSU relocation to Ogboko? Why is Rochas trying to “rob Peter to pay Paul" by removing Imo Poly courses others saw and left?
Where are the three Universities he promised Imo people when the heat was on him over the relocation of IMSU to Ogboko? Why can't he establish the IMSU Faculty of Engineering approved for Okigwe zone land and the recent Imo State College of Education, meant for Okigwe zone too and approved by the Imo Assembly?, the group queried. Culled from nigeriahorn
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