By Princely Onyenwe, Imo
The Special Adviser/General Manager of Owerri Capital Development Authority OCDA Engr. Francis Chukwu has explained that his OCDA led administration introduced Electronic Receipts with Micro Chips in order to curtail fraud and falsification of receipts, adding that upon assumption of office he suspended the issuance of old receipts, stopped collection of statutory payments using POS and inter-switch and directed that all statutory payments should go through the Treasury Single Account (TSA) of the State Government.
The OCDA General Manager noted that since he came on board in less than 3 months, Owerri Capital Development Authority as an Agency has recorded a good number of positive changes including increment in the revenue generating profile of the Agency, pointing out that he has continued to consolidate on areas strength of his predecessor while identifying grey areas and addressing the needed issues.
While expressing his gratitude to the the Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma for appointing him as the General Manager of OCDA, Engr. Chukwu re-echoed that Governor Uzodinma gave him the mandate to sanitize and restore public confidence in OCDA.
9News correspodent in Owerri, Princely Onyenwe gathered that the OCDA helmsman who enumerated his activities including personally interviewing the various Consultants that were engaged by the Agency to entrench trasparency in the process of their selection, organizing Capacity Building Workshop for the Management and Staff of the Agency, organizing an Owerri Capital City wide Awarness Campaign tagged Operation Reclaim Owerri Capital Territory from Shanties and Street trading among others, stressed that he has been interfacing with various collaborating Agencies of OCDA including security operatives in order to ensure effective working synergy between OCDA and the Agencies at all times.
Doubled as the Governor’s Aide, Engr Chukwu expressed the hope that with the numerous people oriented programmes, policies and projects both completed and ongoing by the Shared Prosperity Government of Governor Hope Uzodimma Imo State will experience enduring development in all sectors in shortest possible time.
Without doubt, the courage in his professional assignment is a true test of assertion that the youths can think out great things to develop the society.
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