Uzodimma urges newly sworn in Permanent Secretaries to live up to expectations

Poised to strengthen the Imo State’s Civil Service for utmost performance, the Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma has charged 24 newly sworn in Permanent Secretaries to key into the Shared Prosperity Government of his administration for the sake of achieving a new Imo State of everyone’s dream.

Governor Uzodimma gave the charge in his remarks at the New Exco Chambers Government House, Owerri on Monday, June 30, 2025 during the swearing-in ceremony of the freshly minted Permanent Secretaries.

The Governor noted that their position represents the engine room of the government and the system, and therefore enjoined them to “live above board, be driven only by the national interest, protecting and defending Imo people as well as remain role models, and led by example.”

He reminded them that as Permanent Secretaries, they are truly the accounting officers in charge of their various Ministries Departments and Agencies, and urged them to make sacrifices to achieve the mandate and vision of government.

“You must take decisions above ethnic, religious and primordial sentiments,” he stressed.

Governor Uzodimma urged the Permanent Secretaries to extend their loyalty to the people of Imo State, emphasising that they are responsible and answerable to merit-driven system that produced them.

He further charged them to key into the Shared Prosperity Government of his administration, “focusing on the welfare and development of Imo State.”

The Governor who emphasised the importance of transparency, accountability, proven competence in management and deep knowledge of the Civil Service, noted that State is only desirous of people with vision to bring prosperity and get Imo right on track.

He therefore enjoined them to join him in his vision of recovering a new Imo State of our collect dream.

Congratulating them on their well-deserved career progression and scaling through all the rigorous processes that brought them to the peak of Civil Service, Governor Uzodimma stated that the State under his watch is doing its best to sanitise the judiciary and ensure it operates effectively.

Speaking on behalf the newly sworn-in Permanent Secretaries, Dr. Okeji Augustine Chidiebere eulogised the Governor for the feat achieved by his administration in social and infrastructural development of the State.

He expressed joy that they were chosen for the position of trust to support in up scale service delivery and provide dividends of democracy to Imo people, and assured that they will not fail but strive to keep pace with the vision of the Governor.

Okeji also thanked the Governor for confirming the appointment of the Head of Service, Mrs. Chikaodi Emenalor, whom he said, leads the new team of Permanent Secretaries in Imo State determined to make the difference.

The highpoint of the swearing in ceremony was the deployment of the newly sworn in Permanent Secretaries to their various ministries of operation, and the handing over of brand new vehicles to them for their official use in their ministries.

The Deputy Governor, Lady Chinyere Ekomaru, the Deputy Speaker Imo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Amara Iwuanyanwu, the Secretary to the State Government, Chief Cosmos Iwu, the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Barr Nnamdi Anyaehie, and some members of the Imo State expanded Executive Council witnessed the occasion.

Also in attendance were the Chairman of Imo State Traditional Rulers Council, HRH, Eze EC Okeke, the former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Imo State, Barr. Malcom Nlemigbo, among others.