{"id":3634,"date":"2023-11-23T19:18:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T19:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/gov-uzodinma-suspends-commissioner-special-adviser\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T19:18:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T19:18:15","slug":"gov-uzodinma-suspends-commissioner-special-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/gov-uzodinma-suspends-commissioner-special-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov Uzodinma suspends commissioner, special adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has suspended the Commissioner for Lands, Survey, and Physical Planning, Noble Atulegwu.<\/p>\n<p>Uzodinma also suspended his Special Adviser and General Manager of Imo State Housing Cooperation, Mbakwe Obi.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said the suspension of the duo takes immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Uzodinma\u2019s action was contained in a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Cosmos Iwu.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads: \u201cThe Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodimma, has approved the immediate suspension from the office of the Commissioner for Lands, Survey, and Physical Planning, Noble Atulegwu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis Excellency has similarly approved the immediate suspension from office of the SA\/GM Imo Housing Corporation, Mbakwe Obi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though no reason was given for the suspension, Atulegwu had been having issues with many communities in Owerri, the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>Atulegwu was accused of allegedly taking over lands belonging to families and communities.<\/p>\n<p>Some even went to court to challenge Atulegwu\u2019s actions and policies.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension is coming shortly after Gov Uzodinma was reelected for a second term.<\/p>\n<p>Gov Uzodinma suspends commissioner, special adviser<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has suspended the Commissioner for Lands, Survey, and Physical Planning, Noble Atulegwu. Uzodinma also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5148,15,3,5149,1591],"tags":[3174,924,180,249,5150,1594],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commissioner","category-news","category-politics","category-special-adviser","category-uzodinma","tag-adviser","tag-commissioner","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-special","tag-uzodinma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}