Igbo Delta: Governor TA Orji runs a bad government which have failed the people of Abia State no doubt. THIS IS NOT A STATE GOVERNMENT PROJECT BUT A PRIVATE SECTOR PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE WORLD BANK, UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL FUND, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE, ABIA STATE GOVT , BANK OF INDUSTRY, NIGERIA EXPORT PROMOTION COUNCIL, EUROPEAN AND CHINESE FIRMS. ABIA STATE GOVT HAVE DONE ITS PART BY PROVIDING 300 HECTERS OF LAND, THE FUNDING AND CONSTRUCTION OF THIS CITY WOULD BE DONE BY THE PROFIT DRIVEN PRIVATE SECTOR IN COLLABORATION WITH THEIR FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS.

Once @bolded is involved, just forget it.

Abia State Government stake in this Project is provision of the Land for development of the mall and that has already been done.

Igbo Delta: Governor TA Orji runs a bad government which have failed the people of Abia State no doubt. THIS IS NOT A STATE GOVERNMENT PROJECT BUT A PRIVATE SECTOR PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE WORLD BANK, UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL FUND, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE, ABIA STATE GOVT, BANK OF INDUSTRY, NIGERIA EXPORT PROMOTION COUNCIL, EUROPEAN AND CHINESE FIRMS. ABIA STATE GOVT HAVE DONE ITS PART BY PROVIDING 300 HECTERS OF LAND, THE FUNDING AND CONSTRUCTION OF THIS CITY WOULD BE DONE BY THE PROFIT DRIVEN PRIVATE SECTOR IN COLLABORATION WITH THEIR FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS.

Abagworo:

Once @bolded is involved, just forget it.

THE BOLDED HAVE DONE ITS PART BY PROVIDING 300 HECTERS OF LAND. MOST GOVERNMENTS IN NIGERIA PROVIDES LAND AS THEIR EQUITY PARTICIPATION WHILE THE PRIVATE SECTOR PROVIDE THE FUNDING, INFRASTRUCTURES AND MANAGEMENT

Ngwakwe: Abia State Government stake in this Project is provision of the Land for development of the mall and that has already been done.

If what you said is the case, then it is going to work out. I hope the land owners have been adequately compensated. People who brought such big project to Aba should be encouraged. I think estate developers should also drift in. I envisage a high demand for accommodation by the traders within that locality. I foresee a lot of opportunities. Good project.

Aba has been the centre of criticism against the Ochendo government. But the critics did not seem to understand the history of the cumulative decay of the city which started with the previous administrations of the state. They did not also factor the fact that Orji has only a paltry N3.5 billion monthly federal allocation to cater for the entire state. But today, Orji has marched into Aba to match action with words and his vision is to create an enabling environment for the reemergence of the small and medium scale enterprises and for the growth of the informal sector in Aba. He wants to restore the lost glory of Aba.
Indeed, Aba is rich in history. The city is key not only to the Igbos but to the entire people of Nigeria and Africa. Apart from its political history with the Aba Women Riot of 1929, there is a rare ingenuity and dexterity for creativity and innovation which germinate in Aba. In little corners of the ancient city, little men of giant minds replicate the kind of creative imagination for which the three Japanese cities of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka are known. Today, the new political will of Ochendo is to rebuild and transform the city, and the determination to re-invent the Japan of Africa.
Aba is also the commercial hub of Abia State and the business epicentre of the South-East. A greater percentage of the state’s internally-generated revenue (IGR) comes from Aba. It is a city of commerce and enterprise and a place where men sit back in their backyards and try to design, create or develop a product. By the time Aba was in its glory, it was a great centre of business. People came in hordes from all areas of the West African sub-region to buy the Aba-made goods. The city made a great contribution to the Nigerian economy, contributing both to the industrial growth and tourism.

Besides the people’s creativity, Aba also played host as zonal headquarters of many multi-nationals. During the civil war, the area sustained the secessionist Biafra in the area of local food production. But suddenly, Aba fell from the pinnacle of its glory to the backwaters. Without any measure of control, the once beautiful city built by the colonial government became a mad house. The situation was worsened by the menace of flood and filth. Makeshift kiosks sprung up everywhere and people built on top of drainages. Without an enabling environment, the small and medium scale enterprises began to die. The final death knell was the spate of insecurity witnessed in the area in recent times.
Aba also has a recent history of insecurity that came to its peak with the crime of kidnapping. Realising that law and order are the conditions for all other socio-economic activities of man, the governor waged a war against insecurity by confronting and combating the menace of kidnapping and other violent crimes that gripped the area. In collaboration with the Federal Government on a three-pronged strategy that involved the Army leading an expedition in Abia, Orji stabilised the state and ensured that peace returned to the once volatile areas. He has continued to sustain this atmosphere by retaining the services of the Army in the area.
With security in place, the governor has gone ahead to woo foreign investors to the state. All the companies that once relocated from the city have returned to Aba. The strategy is to revamp the industrial base that existed in the area. This would assist in creating job opportunities for the teeming youths and boost the governor’s youth empowerment programme.

There is a new picture of Aba, a mental prototype of what Aba should be, in the mind of Ochendo. Thank God, he is today in Aba with full force working towards the actualisation of the Aba of our dreams. The transformation is starting with the construction of 16 roads. The caterpillars are at work. Through Azikiwe, Asa road, Brass, etc, it is a new face for a once fallen city. By the time Ochendo is done, Aba residents will sing a new song. The critics will swallow their words. They will sing eulogies to a man whose entire trajectory in power has been a rescue mission for the people of God’s Own State.

Abagworo:

I passed Osisioma recently and it has changed tremendously. The Park has been turned to a garden and a new park was located about 3 or 4 kilometers up same Road. That's about the best thing. Orji did. Like I wrote earlier, nobody will take Orji serious unless we start seeing pictures of the projects at different levels.

That project is nt sometin to jeer or be happy about.he just did his job there...
Ok for instance that park which he relocated some 4km away is a nuisance to the highway leading to it due to the frequent obstruction of trafic by vehicles entering and leaving the park.
A flyover is needed there...

emindu: There is a new picture of Aba, a mental prototype of what Aba should be, in the mind of Ochendo. Thank God, he is today in Aba with full force working towards the actualisation of the Aba of our dreams. The transformation is starting with the construction of 16 roads. The caterpillars are at work. Through Azikiwe, Asa road, Brass, etc, it is a new face for a once fallen city. By the time Ochendo is done, Aba residents will sing a new song. The critics will swallow their words. They will sing eulogies to a man whose entire trajectory in power has been a rescue mission for the people of God’s Own State.

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Most Aba residents don't share your view. When did all these road rehabilitation start?

Lord Naya: .

Most Aba residents don't share your view. When did all these road rehabilitation start?

Are you new here? The moniker, Emindu is one of the circus clowns who utter concocted gibberish here to support T.A Orji. His write up is just a hollow article to deceive people whose only knowledge of Aba comes from what they read on the internet. That guy doesn't know where Azikiwe road is. Ignore him.