Okorocha to workers: I bought my jets before becoming gov

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has described as false the report that he recently bought two private jets.
He told state workers on Thursday that the jets he owns were bought before he became governor in 2011.
To the governor, civil servants should not allow themselves to be deceived by ‘enemies of progress’.
The workers, on Monday, told the governor to sell his jets and use the proceeds to pay them their salaries.
But, the governor’s Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Sam Onwuemeodo, in a statement on Thursday, said: “As a government, we want to deny, with high sense of honesty, that since May 29, 2011 when Owelle Rochas Okorocha became governor, he has never bought any private jet, either directly or by proxy. Having made this denial, let those behind the allegation make their facts public to fault our denial.
“The period Governor Rochas Okorocha bought jets was years before he was elected, during the Olusegun Obasanjo regime when some of the presidential jets were auctioned. The governor bought jets then under the aegis of Lamonde Aviation, alongside few other Nigerians. Since he became governor, he has never bought any private jet.
“Again, the Debit Management Agency penultimate week published states and their respective debt profiles. And in the case of Imo State, they published N37 billion which was far from the hundreds of billions the opponents of the government have been claiming to be the debt status of the state. And the N37 billion debt include the ones owed by the previous administrations. The good story is that we have been vindicated on that.”