S-H-O-C-K-I-N-G!!! Rochas Okorocha To Demolish Imo State Library. Governor Issues 72 Hours Demolition Notice.

I want to use the space to build a Car park for the new Government House Chapel. - Gov Okorocha.
**the recreation park of the library has earlier being confiscated by the governor to build a Mini Shopping mall.

The Governor of Imo state, is set to demolish the only library serving the entire state in the state Capital, Owerri.
The newly refurbished Library was built in 1976 by the then Military Administrator of the state, Rear Admiral (retired) Ndubuisi Godwin Kanu.



The governor who is building a government house chapel, just outside the government house is demolishing the library to make space to create a car park for worshippers at the chapel when completed.
Okorocha had earlier this year taken over the library recreation park where he is presently constructing a mini mall of sort.
For an alternative however, the governor relocated the library to a remote area near Nekede village, into an uncompleted one-unit residential home without doors and windows.

Library staff complain that even the shelves of the library cannot enter the building without first being dismantled and rebuilt.
The Imo state library is made up of about five units of one-storey buildings fenced in and structured for effective library services.
The Library has over twelve specialized department that conforms to the building design of the state library which include the...
1] Public Library,
2] Children Library,
3] Research Library,
4] School Library,
5] Library for the handicapped (the only existing one in W/Africa).
6] Administration department,
7] Accounts department,
8] ICT unit.
9] department for Library Support Service.
10] Printing department.

The library workers who took to the street yesterday insist that the new location is far away from the readership and against the usual practice of siting library at the centre for easy access to the reading public.
Imo state residence noted that standard of education in the state under the watch of Governor Rochas Okorocha has crashed beyond words.
The Imo State University, Owerri that under Okorocha regime, the Law faculty of the state university and eleven other courses of study have since lost their accreditation by the National University Commission.

The angry state Library workers recalled that during the Gov Achike Udenwa administration, government upgraded and strengthened the pillars of the library and also painted it; Gov Ikedi Ohakim also gave the library a befitting face lift during his tenure, but Okorocha assumed office only to take over their recreation park, fence-in the library and now is planning to demolish and take over the library land.