Ubeku tasks Uduaghan on governanceAGAINST the backdrop of a newspaper report (not The Guardian) that a Delta State commissioner was recently arrested over the possession of illicit drugs, the state government has debunked the claim.Meanwhile, a former Presidential aspirant of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Dr. Abel Ubeku at the weekend in Asaba urged Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan to focus on providing basic social amenities in the state.In a statement by the State Commissioner for Information Mr. Chike Ogeah yesterday, he said, 'The attention of the Delta State Government has been drawn to a report in a newspaper of Saturday, October 15, 2011 to the effect that a serving commissioner in the state has been arrested on allegation of possessing cocaine. This is absolutely false. We state unequivocally that no commissioner in Delta State was arrested or suspected to be involved in the trafficking of hard drugs. Every commissioner and member of the Delta State Executive Council is accounted for.'Although investigations are still ongoing, we have established the fact that in some instances, official documents of the Delta State Government certifying that the holder is an official of the state government may have been fraudulently issued. It has equally been established that the persons issued such documents were not indigenes of Delta State. However, the Delta State Government is collaborating with the relevant security agencies in ongoing investigations. In effect, all employees of the Abuja Liaison Office have been directed to cooperate with investigators in order to determine the source of and persons associated with unauthorised issuance of official state documents.'Ubeku, who spoke with reporters when a delegation of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Delta State Bankers' Award Night 2011 Edition visited Deputy Governor, Prof. Amos Utuama (SAN) decried the poor state of infrastructure in the state.He said that the state government was duty bound to give an account for the several billions of dollars that had accrued to it since he assumed office in 2007.He advised thatthe state's resources should be focused on either road, electricity, water and others instead of handling several projects at a time without result.He added, 'While we are in position of authority we should improve on what we met on ground.Let us leave a legacy behind, impact positively on where we come from.'According to him, he spends so much to servicehis power generating set as a result of unstable power supply in the country, pleading with those in authority or those who have the opportunity to focus on priorities instead of pretending as if things were very difficult.In his remarks, Utuama assured that the observations would be taken seriously,noting that the administration was committed to power supply through partnership with the Federal Government and had expended N15.7 billion on the Independent Power Project (IPP).
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