Imo begins rehabilitation of abandoned Statistics Bureau

Imo State government, under the leadership of Governor Emeka Ihedioha, is making plans to speedily rehabilitate the long abandoned Imo State Bureau of Statistics (SBS).

The state is committed to transforming the SBS into a world-class body that would meet the statistical data needs of the state and that of other national and international establishments.

Enyinnaya Amadikwa, newly appointed directorgeneral, gave this commitment during the first interactive session with the staff of the Bureau in Owerri, the state capital. The new directorgeneral whose appointment was approved recently by the Governor, resumed office barely 48 hours after his appointment, meeting an overwhelmingly dejected and distressed 145 work force idling away in the grossly

dilapidated office complex.

Assuring of government’s commitment towards the urgent rehabilitation of the agency which would act as the main source of data and other statistical information that would support government’s concerted effort towards the rebuilding of the state, he revealed his plans to “reform the agency into a full IT driven bureau that would provide timely, complete, accurate and reliable statistical data that is critical for creating and sustaining an environment which fosters strong, equitable development.”

“This is an essential ingredient for formulation of sound economic development policies, by which the decision making and development plans of the government becomes concentric,” he noted.

Lamenting the abandonment of the Bureau by the immediate past administration of Rochas Okorocha, he wondered how a sane government would abandon an agency such as the State Bureau of Statistics, which should be providing it with the reliable statistics that describes the reality of people’s everyday lives.

Enyinna Amadikwa is an experienced, tested and inventive computer analytical program inventor who his system and ideas have been acknowledged by important individuals and governments. He was until his appointment as Director General of the State Bureau of Statistics Administrator General in institutions and establishments where extensive, sensitive and strategic data have been collected and stored.

The Bureau set up by the Imo State Statistical Law 2010 was very active with the collation, compilation, analysis, storage, publication and dissemination of other information until it was abandoned by the last administration of Rochas Okorocha.