BRING BACK OHAKIM, BBO 2027
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL
PHONE: 07016616629
EMAIL: INFO@BBO2O27.ORG
JULY 2025
LEGACIES THAT SPEAK
Part 4.3
STATUTORY BODIES, INSTITUTIONS AND SPECIAL PURPOSE VEHICLES (SPVs) CREATED AND ESTABLISHED TO DRIVE DEVELOPMENT:
Environmental Transformation Corporation (ENTRACO): To drive the clean and green and urban renewal programme.
Imo Road Maintenance Agency (IROMA): For rural road rehabilitation and all year-round road maintenance.
Imo Job Centre: To maintain data base of the unemployed/jobseekers, capacity buildings through acquisition and shaping up of the capacity of the unemployable. Handle job creation generally.
AGRONOVA – To promote mechanized farming. AGRONOVA was a joint venture of foreign inventors from South Africa, indigenous people and the government.
Imo Municipal Transport Company – An integrated municipal transport service for effective and efficient transportation and logistics support and management.
Imo Industrial Cluster, Nekede – To house small scale industries. A support base for private sector investments.
Imo Enterprise Centre – bringing artisans, traders, fabricators and engineers under one roof. A one stop service center.
Imo State Investment Promotion Agency (ISIPA) – To attract Investments from outside the state and assist potential investors in the state with technical know-how and facilitation needs.
Oil Palm Multiplication and Nursery Center – To develop high yielding palm seedlings and distribute to farmers.
Imo Elders Council – An advisory body of seasoned Imo elders that continually review government policies and programmes, and regularly advises government to ensure compliance with Imo vision.
Imo Vigilante Service – To support the security agencies with intelligence and information on suspected criminals and their activities.
Due Process and Price Intelligence Unit – To ensure that government contracts, supplies and business conform to international best practice as to process and pricing.
Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, ISOPADEC modelled after the NDDC– established to use 40% of the State’s 13% Derivation Allocation to develop oil producing communities and tackle ecological problems in those areas
HOUSING
From the outset, the government pursued a housing programme that would be private sector-driven. Under this arrangement, all encumbrances that potential builders suffered in land acquisition and perfecting of their documents were removed.
The private sector duly acquitted itself and many commercial houses sprang up forcing rents to go down drastically.
Added to the above, the state government under the supervision of the Ministry of Housing acquired a large acreage of land along Port Harcourt road to support private developers to build low cost Housing Estate that would be within the reach of civil servants and the middle class.
The clearing, landscaping and parcellation were already at advanced stages at the time the government exited.
It was set to be the government’s major project in the second term.
To support the housing sector, government opened access roads to rural communities close to the state capital to encourage developers to build commercial houses in such communities and get the needed patronage from public servants and business people that operate in Owerri Capital.
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL
PHONE: 07016616629
EMAIL: INFO@BBO2O27.ORG
JULY 2025
