The feeding bottle is for all of us – Alex Otti tells looters

Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has expressed his determination to retrieve all government funds and assets held by individuals accused of corruption in the state.

Furthermore, he assured the public that his administration would take action to prevent more individuals from benefiting illicitly from the state’s resources.

Governor Otti made these statements during a thanksgiving service at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Umuahia, which was held to celebrate the Deputy Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Hon. Austin Okezie Meregini.

Governor Otti highlighted the changes he has implemented in the state’s civil service and the dissolution of various boards as part of his efforts to rebuild Abia. He pledged that all misappropriated public funds and assets would be recovered through the recently established Panel of Inquiry.

“It is also not uncommon for you to be hearing people wailing and crying; that is expected because for the past 24 years, some people had put their mouths on the feeding bottle and since we came we removed their mouths.

“There may be a few people whose mouths we have not seen and that is why we have the Panel. We will fish out those people and remove their mouths from the feeding bottle.”

Otti said that public funds and property should be used for the good of the people, not to be cornered by a corrupt few.

“The feeding bottle is for all of us. So anytime that happens, you will hear them screaming, ‘the man is undemocratic, the man wants to spoil the State’. We have not come to spoil, we have come to rebuild.

“So, if the rebuilding tastes like spoiling to them, we can’t understand but we cannot sympathize with them,” Otti thundered, to the cheering of Church members.

He advised Abians not to lose sleep as his policies were designed for their own good.