Imo State Head of Service (HOS), Barr. Raymond Ucheoma, has debunked the news making the rounds that he changed the rice palliative formula approved by Governor Hope Uzodimma when he addressed civil servants at the State Secretariat, recently.
Ucheoma went further to say that he had in his possession lists of all government establishments in the state, with their nominal rolls and the official number of rice and groundnut oil to be given to them as approved by the governor.
He said he could not go against the governor’s palliative formula as claimed by some people, adding that he was the closest person to the governor on the day he was addressing the civil servants and the person that heard his palliative promise well.
He said that what the people had succeeded in doing was report him to the governor by putting up the allegation in the newspapers but that as long as he did not go against the governor’s wish, it would amount to nothing.
He also disclosed that there were some establishments which were not carried along in the past palliative exercises but were being carried along presently due to the governor’s magnanimity.
Ucheoma advised people to stop engaging in “pull him down syndrome” or “character assassination”, adding that the bags of rice meant for civil servants were being protected by security personnel and that he never at anytime took them away or converted them to personal property.