mktinsight:


Maybe you also need to do PPP for cleaning up commercial streets and ridding them of hawkers and illegal vehicles parked since ANSG is too corrupt.

This Obiano government unfortunately does not understand the importance of order for real estate development. Get rid of hawkers, retailers renting shops benefit, enforce sanitation laws and building requirements and landlords will upgrade, enforce no parking laws people will build car parks and get revenue.

In Lagos because they practically pushed out fruit n veg vendors from the major streets you now see real organized grocery shops forming.

Yyeske:
Do you live in Onitsha at all?

ANSMEDIA:
@Dawatnama, Obiano is working on most urban roads in Onitsha and Awka as well as he is working on most rural roads. I have even posted some of them here before now. What i kept asking myself is where does he get all the funds to be able to meet up with all these.

DawatNama:


As long as Niger Street and Iweka Road down to Moore Street where Pigs sleep in the streets are in those shape, he ain't doing anything. Old and new mkt roads that are suppose to be Anambra CBD are nothing to write home about.
Open gutters everywhere, makeshift shacks every corner, abeg sanity is needed like some said, there is no sanity now

mktinsight:


Anambra needs to have better urban planning not just roads. Water, health, sanitation, industry. Onitsha to me is what you get when you leave the common man to plan. Chaos. A city that was a beacon of modernity with missionaries, schools, western trading companies has degenerated into a city of unregulated filth and commercial madness. Onitsha is supposed to have all the regional HQ of multinationals and banks but they flee to Enugu and Asaba.

DawatNama:


The issue with Onitsha is lack of academic environment. Something need to dilute its blue collar nature. If there is a university campus within the city limits it will influence the residents on how to act decent.
There is no packaging in Onitsha, 90% of the residents don't return after NYSC so there is dearth of mindset overhaul.
What sabmiller employees did at iyiowa taught me that educated minority can influence uneducated majority in greater length.

Anambra state need to take university campuses to Onitsha and Nnewi, if you visit Ekwulobia you will understand how Oko Poly students influence the locals

DawatNama:

Anambra state need to take university campuses to Onitsha and Nnewi, if you visit Ekwulobia you will understand how Oko Poly students influence the locals

ANSMEDIA:

Gov. Willie Obiano without the prior knowledge of the Contractors visits the Ongoing Construction of Okpuno -Urum -Amanuke -Achalla Road 15.9km.

DawatNama:


As long as Niger Street and Iweka Road down to Moore Street where Pigs sleep in the streets are in those shape, he ain't doing anything. Old and new mkt roads that are suppose to be Anambra CBD are nothing to write home about.
Open gutters everywhere, makeshift shacks every corner, abeg sanity is needed like some said, there is no sanity now

DawatNama:


The issue with Onitsha is lack of academic environment. Something need to dilute its blue collar nature. If there is a university campus within the city limits it will influence the residents on how to act decent.
There is no packaging in Onitsha, 90% of the residents don't return after NYSC so there is dearth of mindset overhaul.
What sabmiller employees did at iyiowa taught me that educated minority can influence uneducated majority in greater length.

Anambra state need to take university campuses to Onitsha and Nnewi, if you visit Ekwulobia you will understand how Oko Poly students influence the locals

DawatNama:

No but I must be in Onitsha every month because of the nature of my job.

redsquare:


I'm with you on this bro. The presence of a higher institution in Onitsha and environs would really change everything about the city. I aso believe that once Okada is stopped and taxis/rickshaws start plying every street, sanity would be restored.

TundeBricklayer:

Where is the space for university in Onitsha? There is Tansia university in Umunya one of sub towns, how about Onitsha business school?

OreMI22:


The 33 artillery army barracks in Onitsha needs to be relocated to somewhere at Nteje to be able to respond to emergencies in Onitsha or Awka.

Then use the ares that is the 33 artillery brigade in Onitsha for a university.

DawatNama:


The issue with Onitsha is lack of academic environment. Something need to dilute its blue collar nature. If there is a university campus within the city limits it will influence the residents on how to act decent.
There is no packaging in Onitsha, 90% of the residents don't return after NYSC so there is dearth of mindset overhaul.
What sabmiller employees did at iyiowa taught me that educated minority can influence uneducated majority in greater length.

Anambra state need to take university campuses to Onitsha and Nnewi, if you visit Ekwulobia you will understand how Oko Poly students influence the locals

mktinsight:


Onitsha was relatively well planned until it became an unregulated market town where anybody and everybody could do anything.

So if you want Onitsha to change you need far better organized business to locate there and not traders selling goods under staircases or in shacks. For that to.happen you need government enforcing order and not encouraging the primitive capitalism of a street and wheelbarrow economy.

That's the difference between an India and a China and is why the Chinese economy is 8 times the size of India. The Chinese think big and do not settle for cities where people can live anyhow like India. Their streets do not let cattle to sleep on them or tricycles to roam because they can't plan a proper transport system.

That is also why the Europeans are far more creative and innovative than the rest of the world. Just visit any European town, their shopping streets are orderly and attractive and is not an everyone affair. So you see people engaged in craft not retailing. Look at the cafés, restaurants, shops that they have. Those structures are infused with the skills of architects, interior designers, artists, equipment manufacturers, suppliers not loads of hastily built shacks with no toilet or plumbing at the side of the road announcing "food is ready".

The ANSG needs to get serious with our cities. They are not extensions of villages. People need to operate at a higher level of organization and productivity. Onitsha needs is to attract industry, upgrade it's wholesale markets and clean up the CBD so supporting services can come in.

Specifically the state needs to build more industrial areas in Onitsha equipped with power, roads and water. The city should have 1,000 factories. Its wholesale markets need to be incorporated to attract capital to upgrade with better design, conveniences, infrastructure for modern wholesale retail not ugly unpainted, unroofed blocks of concrete called shops. Then the government needs to enforce building laws, sanitation fees and fines, upgrade commercial streets with pavements, parking laws, better transport systems.

Onitsha is supposed to be a premier city in Nigeria not a theater of primitivity.

cjrane:


I totally agree with you.

Removal of illegal structures and sustaining the effort is a huge start to reclaiming Onitsha from the distortion.

They should look at base map of Onitsha Metropolis ie (Awada, Obosi,Nkpor, Onitsha, Omagba, Ogidi, Ogbunike, Nkwelle ezunaka, Nsugbe, Oba etc) and designate major roads that should be expanded so that people can get around easily. They need to build a small flyover to connect New Market road and Oraifite street in Awada. This will help the massive population in Awada to access the main city in Onitsha.

Ejanla07:



Shut up mr. D guy you quoted is a sophiscated moronn. Dont fall for his Igbo claims. He is afonja through and through. Even if chino is not Igbo he is from Anambra

OreMI22:


The 33 artillery army barracks in Onitsha needs to be relocated to somewhere at Nteje to be able to respond to emergencies in Onitsha or Awka.

Then use the ares that is the 33 artillery brigade in Onitsha for a university.

NonsoWow:
The army barracks should be left where it is so that they can respond quickly to any Ipod disturbance in the Onitsha metropolis pending when all those wawa and abakaliki miscreants are completely cleared from our state.

cjrane:
Willie Obiano should not forget his promise to dualize 33 road (Nkisi road) from Onitsha to Umuleri airport city and then extend it to Aguleri'


Dualization of this road will open up the northern fringes of Onitsha the way Onitsha -Owerri road dualization opened up the southern fringes. Such that people could live in Oba and comfortably work in Ointsha. Thus, decongesting the town.

Dualization of the Nkisi (33) road will enable people to live in Umuleri or Aguleri and work in Onitsha without the commuting time being too much. That road is critical to the future of the state and growth of Onitsha as a megacity.

DawatNama:


Every government of Anambra state from 1999 till day have been mediocrity condoned. No government have been able to dualized a single important state road in Anambra state.
Now, why should Upper Iweka to Moore Street be left in that state instead of the government to continue from where FG stop at flyover and dualize the road to Main Market.
Roadside traders at Ochanja will divide the narrow road into two, trading on the half and dumping heaps of refuse of the other side while pedestrians and motorists haggle for space to pass. Zik Avenue, Niger Street and Port Harcourt Road they can't dualize. If they scrap the surface of the earth and poor hot coaltar media urchins will be making noise.
I will always say it that Orlu have more dualized roads than Onitsha and Nnewi combined, this is a fact

Yyeske:
I guess you dualized Zik's avenue, secretariat road, Agu Awka road etc all in Awka, Park Lane GRA Onitsha and others.
FYI, what matters most to us is that the roads are in good order and motorable all year round so you can take your dualization to whatever location you wish that can't boast of half the quality of roads Anambra has.
Take a trip from Ihiala to Orlu you mentioned and you need nobody to tell you when you had crossed the boundary between both states.

DawatNama:


Go and die emotional twerp, you're still locked in pettiness

Yyeske:
I agree with you on this, prompt response to those miscreants that had taken Nkpor as their headquarters but stop tagging the Wawa and Abakaliki people please.