In a private meeting at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday, Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State and President Muhammadu Buhari discussed vital infrastructure projects that would improve state security.
The visit comes just a few hours after Ikedi Ohakim, a former governor of the South East state, narrowly escaped gunmen’s attacks in Mbano.
Four police officers who were traveling in the ex-convoy governor’s were killed as a result of the attack.
The meeting on Tuesday gave Uzodinma the chance to get the state’s request for some security surveillance equipment approved by the president.
Additionally, the visit was to express gratitude to the President for his administration’s assistance in the wake of the Supreme Court decision and since Uzodinma’s inauguration.
He stated: “I made an appeal to the President for further support, especially to support us with some technological deployments, we have planned to be able to do an advanced kind of security control in the South East. And he has also given his approval to that.
“Any moment from now, we’ll be getting some surveillance equipment and some modern technologies that will help us manage security so that we can fight crime with little or no collateral damage to the environment.”
He made the following statement regarding the assistance received from the Federal Government: “I came on behalf of my people, to also thank Mr. President for the various supports he gave to us during this period of security challenges, and the support he’s also given to us in terms of the various approval.
“The approval to convert Federal Medical Center Owerri to a University Teaching Hospital for the Federal University of Technology, the approval that converted Alvan Ikoku College of Education to a federal college of education. Only two weeks ago, Igbo that came home from Lagos and outside South East enjoyed the benefit of the Second Niger Bridge, something that is worthy of commendation.”
