Our correspondent gathered that while some youths were paid for two months, some were given one month salary.
However, majority of thousands of youths who besieged the Accountant General Office for the payment exercise left in agony as there were told to go home as money was no longer available for them to be paid.
This caused a melee within the premises of the Accountant General’s office as the youths went on rampage demanding payment.
It was gathered that it took the intervention of security operatives to wade the angry youths to overrun the AG’s office forcing the youths to sing derogatory songs about the State government. This also caused stampede in the busy Bank road, Owerri as the youths went on rampage.
The Okorocha administration had engaged 25,000 youths for job employment via the newly introduced Community Government Council, CGC, a mode of governance said to be alien to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Okorocha say the CGC is the fourth tier of government in Imo.Most of the youths involved or engaged in the exercise said they were not paid a dime for six months plus.
The state government last week had published names of the beneficiaries of the programme, but it was gathered that the exercise has been fraught with inconsistency and irregularities, as analysts contend it is a smokescreen to hood wink the youths to back the rumoured second term aspiration of the Imo Governor.
Before Okorocha emerged Imo Governor, his predecessor, Ikedi Ohakim had introduced 10,000 Job Scheme for jobless youths.
Okorocha on assumption of office in 2011 abolished the scheme on the basis that it was non existent and was a mere political tool the last administration employed to hoodwink youths of the State to vote for Ohakim's re- election.
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