?Seeks intervention of Governor Uzodimma, CP Danjuma

By CHARLES IWUOHA

A former Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Imo State Council, Mr Ben Osuagwu, has called on the Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma and the Police Commissioner, CP Aboki Danjuma, to intervene on the purported sale of the Union's Press Centre in Owerri.

Osuagwu stated that the NUJ Press Centre, on the Owerri ? Port Harcourt Road, was given to journalists by the then Military Governor of the state, Commodore Amadi Ikwechegh, under his leadership as the state Chairman with all official documents and titles.

In a statement he personally issued on Saturday, Osuagwu expressed dismay and wondered how some people would wake up after collecting money from some individuals and claim that they will sell the Press Centre to them.

The statement reads: ?Such a move is absolutely outrageous, insulting to the sensibilities of not only journalists in Imo State but to all journalists across the country and their noble friends and Patrons.

?If anyone wants to sell any Press Centre, he should go and sell the one in his State and leave out the only Monument Journalists East of the Niger have.

?I wonder why people think that being elected into office makes them emperors that they will take unilateral decisions. The era of imperialism is over.

?I humbly appeal to the State Governor and the Police Commissioner to stop the rascality- of those individuals. The matter I learnt is in Court. They should allow the matter to end in the Court. Why hurry to go and lock up the Centre.

?If the money they collected from some people is choking them, they should look elsewhere and cough out the money and pay them back.

?We say NO to the illegal and criminal sale of the Imo NUJ Press Centre and the Governor Senator Hope Uzodinma should not allow this criminality to happen during his time as Governor of Imo State.?

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