Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji has said that his administration is determined to sustain security in the state even if it requires suspending all other projects, emphasizing the strategic role security has played in stimulating economic activities and peace in Abia.

The Governor declared this in Umuahia on Saturday 19th January, 2013 while responding to questions at the Citizens’ Forum of the National Good Governance Tour.

Governor Orji recalled that Abia was a ‘kidnap state’ but when he sought the intervention of President Goodluck Jonathan, the President did not hesitate to deploy more military personnel to the state. “Soldiers from Ohafia barrack have been placed at different parts of Abia State to ensure security”, the Governor stated.

“We will be remembered as a government that gave security to the people” Chief Orji added.

In the area of education, he said the performance of Abia students at national competitions tells the story on its own of what the state government is doing for its youths in the sector. “We are doing very well in the area of education we have free primary to secondary education, free transportation for students, free textbooks as well as returned the schools to the missionaries”.

He also said the youths in the state are also being empowered in the area of paying school fees, scholarships, provision of brand new vehicles and motorcycles adding that over 4,500 youths have been empowered by the state. He noted that ASOPADEC is working and has even provided brand new SUVs for traditional rulers.

“We are paying school fees, WAEC fees and University fees as well as granting scholarships to Abia State students. By the performance of our students everywhere, you’ll know we are doing well in education. Abia students must be found in the top 10 of Nigerian Law School and in medicine”, he declared.

On construction of the road leading to the Geometrics Power Plant in Aba, he said he has promised Prof. Barth Nnaji that it would be done free of charge to encourage economic development of the state. He said he was not expecting any refund from the Federal Government because he did not take permission from it before embarking on the road project.

He equally stated that his government has invested more money in Aba than any other city. Governor Orji said contracts have been awarded for the Abia-Owerri road at the sum of N1.8billion and the Aba-Port Harcourt road at N1.7billion. He said 16 contracts were awarded within 1 month for internal roads and 4 have been completed.

Speaking also on appointments, the Governor said appointments in the state are based on qualifications and competence and not influenced by sentiments and god-fatherism in the spirit of upholding dignity.

Explaining the rationale for placing embargo on employment in the state civil service the Governor said the state could not bite more than it could chew considering the lean funds it has to spend. He however stated that employment is streamlined in a way that those who would add value to the state’s economy would be recruited.

He said people would appreciate the President more when he leaves office as the various transformational programmes and reforms of the Federal Government are bound to succeed.

The Governor said he has directed Local Governments to submit payroll of workers to the State Auditor General to process payments, stressing that Abia State Government was not owing any civil servant in the state.

In his remarks, the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku said for progress to be achieved, Security, Law and Order are needed.

He said from June 2013, Aba, Umuahia and surroundings will have uninterruptable power supply. The Minister said between March and June, all 3 turbines will be fired at Geometric Power Plant. “Abia State is headed in the right direction under the present administration”, Mr. Maku said.

“We will follow up on all the contractors awarded contracts for all the roads in the South East. We are not here for sightseeing. We are here to assess the level of development in all states of the country.

“We have filed a report against the contractor of the PHCN (TCN) Aba sub-transmission station on the transformer that is not working”, the Information Minister stated.

http://fmi.gov.ng/security-of-abia-remains-my-number-one-priority-gov-orji/

well u r not doing bad as far as security is concerned even though u r an expert in bad governance. u can use d whole allocation for security while Aba roads is still an eyesore even umuahia that is capital, needs a drastic facelift

I hope food, good roads and good health falls under security..

funny criminal ...

That man na oporo(prawn), army are now collecting 50:50 and 100:100 from buses in Aba particularly. Army are now used as police, harassing people anyhow-anyhow. May God help abia shaa.

The worst Governor that ever existed in the history of democracy in the world.

Sth is not right here.How is it dat any item(not news bc none frm T.A.Orji is newsworthy) frm Orji or his cyberspace bootlickers gets to d frontpage of nland.I hope is not what am suspecting;cause nland dese days appears to be hijacked by govt propagandists frm varied states and d FG,pushing their unworthy items to d Fpage

doctokwus: Sth is not right here.How is it dat any item(not news bc none frm T.A.Orji is newsworthy) frm Orji or his cyberspace bootlickers gets to d frontpage of nland.I hope is not what am suspecting;cause nland dese days appears to be hijacked by govt propagandists frm varied states and d FG,pushing their unworthy items to d Fpage

T.A. Orji and his goons do pay for advert fee to NL.

His Excellency Gov T. A. Orji has really done much in Abia state, he has brought Peace and sanity in Abia state and especially the security of lives and properties.
At the moment, he has rehabilitated almost all the major roads in Aba while work are ongoing at some major roads.
Below are some of the major roads;
ASA ROAD
PORT HARCOURT ROAD
NGWA ROAD
OSISIOMA
OGBOR HILL
IKOT EKPENE ROAD
ABAYI
UMUNGASI
EHI ROAD
HOSPITAL ROAD
ST MICHAELS ROAD
FOLSK ROAD
URATTA
OBOHIA ROAD
UMULE RD
ARIARA
ALA ORJI
WATER SIDE etc.
Based on his developmental stride, he was awarded the Best SE Governor by the good Governance group.Your Excellency, we Abians are very proud of you and wish u all the best. May God continue to Bless you for us

story ! Story !! Some governors have money 2 cover dier program on AIT, but lack d money 2 develop dier state

franchizy: His Excellency Gov T. A. Orji has really done much in Abia state, he has brought Peace and sanity in Abia state and especially the security of lives and properties.
At the moment, he has rehabilitated almost all the major roads in Aba while work are ongoing at some major roads.
Below are some of the major roads;
ASA ROAD
PORT HARCOURT ROAD
NGWA ROAD
OSISIOMA
OGBOR HILL
IKOT EKPENE ROAD
ABAYI
UMUNGASI
EHI ROAD
HOSPITAL ROAD
ST MICHAELS ROAD
FOLSK ROAD
URATTA
OBOHIA ROAD
UMULE RD
ARIARA
ALA ORJI
WATER SIDE etc.
Based on his developmental stride, he was awarded the Best SE Governor by the good Governance group.Your Excellency, we Abians are very proud of you and wish u all the best. May God continue to Bless you for us

paid agent memba of 40 men laptop squad

This man is A Bloody fool! Imagine what he's saying! Fucking slowpoke! He's here taking credit and talking shit! He's a coward, he heard some officals from GeJ's Adminstration were coming to Aba, so he decided to paint major places! Bleep I could have done better for that state if I was the Governor!

Y using d military? With dem on d road will bring in more harm dan good. Eventually d innocent citizens will b d 1s suffering in d hands of dem soldier men. Orji is among d clueless humans ever to rule in any part of d world,

its funny dat most of us igbo have lost our integrity and morals to money. When will Ѿε̲̣̣̣̥ hav shakers like zik, odemegeu ojukwu(donno d spelling), achabe and d rest. I hav tried to involve d igbo youths to help bring back our sanity but majority of us jt want to kn when d money will come, its frustrating. If not for the hard work of the igbo man Ѿε̲̣̣̣̥ wuld hav bin as backwards as the north. Y are Ѿε̲̣̣̣̥ igbos allowing idiots like orji rule us, Ѿε̲̣̣̣̥ claim to be smart and courageous but smart n courageous pple don't sit @ home and watch a she goat give birth.
LET'S ACT NOW. LET'S SAVE OURSELVES they have no special powers God himself has giving us the power to choose, so let choose to live, let's Choose to protect our children.
Payin school fees, rent and food is not d only way to be a parent, but creating a world for our children is. I am proud to be an igbo man and am ready to bleed to make the igbo land a blessed place for our children and grand children. Lagos is doin it y can't Ѿε̲̣̣̣̥!

the good security in Abia is as a result of military presence after the kidnapping of school kids years ago, the credit goes to Goodluck Jonathan and not T.A. Orji

thief!!! God will punish u 4 converting aba roads into a refuse dumps,and ur here bragging on d media,u work wit ur mouth nt action

T A Orji should be awarded a doctorate degree in lying. What a white lie. In d education he said he returned to d missionaries is fallacy. Anglican church refused to accept ngwa high school cuz of d strigent condition he gave.

franchizy: His Excellency Gov T. A. Orji has really done much in Abia state, he has brought Peace and sanity in Abia state and especially the security of lives and properties.
At the moment, he has rehabilitated almost all the major roads in Aba while work are ongoing at some major roads.
Below are some of the major roads;
ASA ROAD
PORT HARCOURT ROAD
NGWA ROAD
OSISIOMA
OGBOR HILL
IKOT EKPENE ROAD
ABAYI
UMUNGASI
EHI ROAD
HOSPITAL ROAD
ST MICHAELS ROAD
FOLSK ROAD
URATTA
OBOHIA ROAD
UMULE RD
ARIARA
ALA ORJI
WATER SIDE etc.
Based on his developmental stride, he was awarded the Best SE Governor by the good Governance group.Your Excellency, we Abians are very proud of you and wish u all the best. May God continue to Bless you for us

May God rule your life as Thief After Orji rules Abia.

Truely the Abia state government has done well in recent times. The National Good Governance Tour which is headed by the honourable minister of Information has concluded their tour of Abia state and they have confirmed that tremendous transformation is actually going on in the state, I believe the minister. So all those Abia haters well sorry to disappoint you, Abia is on the verge of exploding

In terms of securing lives and property Gov.T.A's administration has done perfectly well in that regard, undisputedly. This was a major step to taking the state to a greater height in every aspect of development. I know that some people are out to undermine government effort in anyway possible but I don't think it is going to stop what is actually going on in the state as regards to infrastructural devt instead it will "ginger" them to do more

ulonnaya21: In terms of securing lives and property Gov.T.A's administration has done perfectly well in that regard, undisputedly. This was a major step to taking the state to a greater height in every aspect of development. I know that some people are out to undermine government effort in anyway possible but I don't think it is going to stop what is actually going on in the state as regards to infrastructural devt instead it will "ginger" them to do more

Thank you bros

Hmmm.Theodore Orji.do you think Nigerians are blind? You have not been able to do anything good in abia.Abia is an eyesore.start with that and then we will know what to tell you

franchizy: His Excellency Gov T. A. Orji has really done much in Abia state, he has brought Peace and sanity in Abia state and especially the security of lives and properties.
At the moment, he has rehabilitated almost all the major roads in Aba while work are ongoing at some major roads.
Below are some of the major roads;
ASA ROAD
PORT HARCOURT ROAD
NGWA ROAD
OSISIOMA
OGBOR HILL
IKOT EKPENE ROAD
ABAYI
UMUNGASI
EHI ROAD
HOSPITAL ROAD
ST MICHAELS ROAD
FOLSK ROAD
URATTA
OBOHIA ROAD
UMULE RD
ARIARA
ALA ORJI
WATER SIDE etc.
Based on his developmental stride, he was awarded the Best SE Governor by the good Governance group.Your Excellency, we Abians are very proud of you and wish u all the best. May God continue to Bless you for us

i don't know why people live in denial,anyway i take consolation in karma,what goes around comes around...it will surely come to you and when it does don't think your kinsmen are out to eliminate you or somebody somewhere is out to get you.since you support wickedness and evil,it will never depart from your house.

Are those blue things real houses or ginger bread houses?
Wonders

I wonder how much that thief pays these Internet warriors monthly
The man and his cronies are stealing lands from innocent people and making people's lives hell and someone is on the Internet praising him

T.A is a security expert
he is doing great ,only haters will say he is not working

Whether they like it or not...Gov TA Orji is performing well. We are happy and safe under him.

we are saying that T.A is working ,people of Abia has got it right to have voted him in,we are all saying that he has been great and we are supporting him...no one has ever done it better than T.A

when you decide to crucify a person be sure u are crucifying based on his discretion that is right.....but what am seeing here that some people are just heaping blames on T.A,but i must tell u guys that crucify T.A ,we are not being fare becos T.A been so outstanding,delivering dividends of democracy...am happy with the way things are going in Abia state....am confident that by the time T.A leaves office there will be many things he will be remembered of.....

well i think T.A is doing everything right,all we have to do is support his administration and forget all the malignity,derogatory,and discrediting against Gov.T.A....becos he has been so outstanding

T.A is doing great,only what we pray for more progress,sustainable development in abia state

Who's doing great, T A? How? He wants to use the calm achieved by Fed Soldiers to shine, and give excuse as what he used money. He had better gone to work.

if u say T.A is not doing great ,make u employ soldiers to ur own state make them do the same,abi them carry soldiers put for jupita wey ur hand no reach to bring them into ur own state,shameless critics,make other governors carry the same idea as T.A carry am make Abia a peaceful state