Hoodlums vandalise 800-KVA Imo water pumping equipment

UNIDENTIFIED hoodlums have made their way into the gigantic water head station in Otamiri, new Owerri Capital Territory of Imo State, vandalising the gigantic 800-KVA water generating set. They carted away vital items and left the water consumers to experience water shortage in the state capital.

Expressing displeasure over the ugly act, the state government has has set up a four-man panel to unravel those involved.

Expressing disgust at the weekend in Owerri while on inspection of the vandalised facility, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Public Utilities and Public Safety, Chinedu Ajoku, an engineer, gave the panel one week to report their findings to the state government, adding that those found to be involved in the vandalisation would be made to face the wrath of the law.

He noted that Governor Rochas Okorocha, had dissolved all the boards of parastatals in the state and the two agencies owned by the state government: Imo Water Corporation and Imo State Water Development Agency (IWADA). In the interim, Messers Z. N. Ibekwe and Ogunsoya Bimbola, would now head the two agencies as General Managers until new board members are appointed.

He directed that all the handing over documents should be submitted by the dissolved board mem