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Deltans In Crushing Grip
Posted: November 3, 2011 - 03:58
By ELDER BENSON AWHOTU (J.P)
One of Nigeria’s most seminal author, Ola Rotimi, in his book “The gods are not to blamed” stated that those the gods want to destroy they first make mad.

Chioma Ugbechie must be in a deluded state of mind, or else she won’t see “people cruise through richly asphalted mesh of roads crisis-crossing Delta State’, when such roads do not exist. One wonders where Chioma Ugbechie hails from, as Warri she claims to write from is suspect. Deltans are fed up with Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan’s inept and anti-progress administration. All roads across Delta State are in a terrible state of disrepair. The Asaba/Ughelli, Warri/Otor Udu/Jeremi Roads, like others in Delta State are completely taken up by potholes and puddles, and countless motorists have lost their lives along these roads. The Asaba/Ughelli road dualization contract was made over 3 years ago, yet no work seems to be going on, and pundits have said the project will not be completed before Uduaghan leaves office.


Governor Uduaghan is a failure and knows he has not faired well in terms of delivering dividends of democracy to the people of Delta State. Every policy or programme of the government is a charade to hoodwink Deltans. Even the ordinary illiterate market woman knows Uduaghan has failed the State and its people. There is restiveness in all parts of Delta, as every sector of the socio-economic life of the people yearns for government intervention. The people wonder where all the state resources are diverted to as nothing is on ground to show for the huge resources that accrue to it regularly, either from the federation account or internally generated. The Ngozi Iweala induced publications in national dailies on financial allocations to states, took the shine off Uduaghan’s face, as he and his spin doctors have always lied to the people about the poor finances of Delta. The Governor has nothing on ground to show for the over N100 billion he collected from the federation account in 6 months.

A hireling who probably has not been to Delta State even for once in her entire life, like Ugbechie, but sits in the comfort of her home where only God knows, cannot fool Deltans with lies as she intended in her piece in the Vanguard of October 5, 2011 because they know where the shoe pinch. To defend their lies and improprieties as revealed by Sahara reporters, an on net squealer, on the Obasanjo Farm in Delta State and other shady deals, the government of Uduaghan tried unconvincingly to explain how it fixed idle funds in Oceanic Bank to earn interest for the state. These are arrant nonsense and unconvincing fabrications. Emmanuel Uduaghan and a few collaborators have hijacked the resources of Delta for themselves their families and friends. As I write this piece, the governor and BGL of Albert Okumagba have perfected plans to mortgage the future of our children through a N100 billion public offer of bonds to get money from the Capital Market to fund infrastructures in Delta State. An administration that has not properly managed visible state resources cannot be trusted to prudently utilize borrowed money. Rather, they want to indebt our children yet unborn and appropriate such monies for themselves.

A State where the administration imposed high taxes on the public work force to generate funds because the government cannot adequately meet its obligations, suddenly have idle funds to put in fixed deposit to earn interest? Is this not more than what the magicians or con artists of those days use to call “America Wonder”. In States like Akwa Ibom and Rivers their governors are up and doing executing projects and touching the lives of the people, while that of Delta is idle. Uduaghan and his handlers should be ashamed to parade an uncompleted airport and the Warri Master plan as projects to brag about. One therefore wonders where Ogbechie saw hospitals that are operating at full swing, well furnished schools, etc. She must be in a state where her mind is playing tricks on her. Delta State is not in some unknown planets, it is around the corner. Those in doubt and want to confirm stories either for their lies or truth should visit. The misrule of Uduaghan has no pair elsewhere. He is desperate to be in power to cover the atrocities of his mentor and for himself. But nothing last forever, there is always a day of reckoning. Uduaghan may confirm from ex-governors Akala, Daniel, and Doma.

ELDER BENSON AWHOTU (J.P)
NO. 17 AMAFORITSE STREET,
OFF IGHOGBAUDA ROAD,
WARRI.
EMAIL: benoritse@yahoo.com.

OP,
You are your own,this post would never get the attention it deserves,inject Lagos or Osun,Ekiti or just slap Acn somewhere in-between and you will see debates,anyway it is up to the people there to change things.

We await the usual sycophants to offer "explanation" on this as we no go school
Oya Beaf, PointB,Jmaine,wesley80 carrygo

Ufeolorun:

OP,
You are your own,this post would never get the attention it deserves,inject Lagos or Osun,Ekiti or just slap Acn somewhere in-between and you will see debates,anyway it is up to the people there to change things.

True talk. In fact, mention Aregbesola and this thread goes platinum.

DrummaBoy:

We await the usual sycophants to offer "explanation" on this as we no go school
Oya Beaf, PointB,Jmaine,wesley80 carrygo

Threads like this excite ethnically bigotted fools like you who run after anything from Delta because you think I have no right to critisece Yoruba governors like Aregbesola and phucking thieves like Tinubu.
You would call names such as PointB, Jmaine, wesley80 as an attempt to coral them into your ugly categories, because you cannot cope with their mental and balanced outputs (unlike your hate filled, coup seeking idiocy). Carry go!

Lame brain.

If only the other threads on Delta state where as well thought out and civilly put across, not of the "out of job" militant variety promoted by goons looking to go into oil bunkering on the blood of innocents; then we would have fulfilling debates about Delta state.

This are some steps I have repeatedly put forward to the militants on their crude and violent threads, but which they have strangely declined:

[size=13pt]If we don't want Uduaghan, then lets impeach him while getting EFCC pertitions together; its called organisation.  
That is the only civilised approach, Delta state is not packed with animals.[/size]

Na, they don't want the above steps, cos rioting pays their ulterior motives better.

Gbawe:

True talk. In fact, mention Aregbesola and this thread goes platinum.

Thats because, while Uduaghan is poor, Aregbesola is the undisputed number one arsehole in the country.
What sort of governer owes two months salary to long suffering Osun state workers, yet finds time and money to send a worthless [size=14pt]19 BUS[/size] aluta trip to Abuja to hail Tinubu? How can any other governor beat such uselessness.

Gbawe:


True talk. In fact, mention Aregbesola and this thread goes platinum.

Aregbesola na unbridled person and will alwys get atttention. I actual love his style   What  shocks me on this platform is the way people put in so much effort in debating issues prolly outside of their sphere of influence and go numb or tactless when it comes to issue affecting their local community or area.It's good to criticise really but why go blank when you are suppose to be passionate.

Ufeolorun:

Aregbesola na unbridled person and will alwys get atttention. I actual love his style   What  shocks me on this platform is the way people put in so much effort in debating issues prolly outside of their sphere of influence and go numb or tactless when it comes to issue affecting their local community or area.It's good to criticise really but why go blank when you are suppose to be passionate.

Ufeolorun:

Aregbesola na unbridled person and will alwys get atttention. I actual love his style   What  shocks me on this platform is the way people put in so much effort in debating issues prolly outside of their sphere of influence and go numb or tactless when it comes to issue affecting their local community or area.It's good to criticise really but why go blank when you are suppose to be passionate.

I know who you are referring to and its happening because the person is not in touch with his roots. I'm not surprised.

^^
Maybe specifically apt but bros its just too common on this platform to see people spend all their paid working hours fuming at remotely related issue then go quiet when its time for them to really plunge in the knife.You still see people steaming with Northern this or that even as  we  have a southern neophyte and a super-clanish inner circle  running/ruining  things,how do we explain this.

Now that you still have your sanity, I suggest you ignore their deeds before they drag you into their pointless r​A̶̲̥̅̊NtS̤̥̈̊

Well,they voted him in abi.What stopped Deltans from voting for Ogboru.

Na wetin dem want dem get.I cry for my state.

9ja4eva:

Well,they voted him in abi.What stopped Deltans from voting for Ogboru.

Na wetin dem want dem get.I cry for my state.

Do not speak of things you know nothing about.

Uduaghan is a complete FAILURE,he knows nothing about governance.

Delta state govt. generally is one of the most ineffective state govt. we have around. they have nuttin to show for 13% oil deriv. fund, all we keep hearing about is master plan for warri, IPP e.t.c. with all the sophisticated pple in delta uduaghan still swept ogboru unda d carpet like nothing.

don33310:

Uduaghan is a complete FAILURE,he knows nothing about governance.

Uduaghan might be a failure he sure knows sometin abt governance. if u begin to trace his journey to power then u will see clearly why he cant change overnight and dump those who put him in power or their philosophy of power-as-a-means-to-self-empowerment.
delta state needs a change urgently.

Government is simply nonexistent there, only a lunatic will be comfortable without nothing to show for a position he occupies while his mates are working hard to be the best. I wonder how he relates with them, whatever that. Chioma (wonder who she is) wrote, is for the non-executing executive governor of Delta State and the ignorant striking law makers. The fact that he has taken Delta State twelve years backwards speaks for itself.

Please can I have the link to the article by Chioma?

I forgot who, but last week someone posted pictures of the students and the Occupy Warri exercise.




Governor Uduaghan Threatens Delta Civil Liberty Campaigners With “Treason”
Posted: November 3, 2011 - 17:20




By SaharaReporters, New York


In an incredible turn of events, the embattled Governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan, this week in a public gathering boasted that it is impossible for anyone to unseat him for as long as the court is located in his state, and threatened to prosecute civil liberty campaigners for treason.
The threat was issued on Monday, October 31 at the Delta State Government House Annex, Warri, at an event the governor hosted under the pretext of a discussion with civil liberty campaigners in the State.

Following the ‘Occupy Warri’ demonstration, the governor had expressed the desire to meet with the organizers to discuss their concerns and demands.  To the shock of the protesters’ representatives who attended the event in the belief the governor was genuinely interested in discussing their concerns with them, Mr. Uduaghan immediately proceeded to accuse them of being members of Liberate-Delta People’s Movement, a civil liberties group on Facebook whose activities he labeled as ‘treasonable felony.’

Liberate-Delta People’s Movement is a group which claims to represent more than 10,600 citizens of the State.  In recent times, it has criticized Mr Uduaghan’s government, and condemned the manner of his election and the numerous abandoned projects in the State.
The group has also focused on the anomalies surrounding INEC’s declaration of Mr. Uduaghan as elected, in view of the fact that many of its members personally witnessed ballot box snatching and electoral violence, as well as numerous places where elections simply did not take place. It has consequently urged the election tribunal to guarantee the rule of law, justice and restoration of the people’s mandate.

Members of the Uduaghan administration are also on the Liberate-Delta Forum, which has offered them the opportunity to dialogue with citizens of the State on all those matters.  At last Monday’s meeting, Mr. Uduaghan confirmed that he personally reads all of the posts on the Forum on a regular basis although he claimed not to have contributed to the debates.
As he tongue-lashed his surprised guests, the governor said he knew categorically that Liberate-Delta People’s Movement was behind the bad press and “distractions” of his administration, and he named Stephen Dieseruvwe, Cadre Drake and Jude Kakpovbia as being the leaders of the group.

Using the same argument that some government officials often aim at their compatriots abroad, he dismissed those individuals as people who live outside Nigeria.  He said he did not know how they can claim to know what happens in his administration, as if it takes someone who lives in Warri or Asaba to know the chaos of the Asaba International Airport, the Ughelli–Asaba Road Dualisation project; the Warri Industrial Park; Independent Power Project in Ogharafe; the ICT Park in Asaba; or the Asaba Central Hospital.

The angry governor lamented that Liberate-Delta plans to unseat him through unconstitutional means, which, in his words, amounted to ‘treasonable felony’. Uduaghan then boasted that it will be impossible for anyone to unseat him, and that those who have been attempting to unseat via the courts have not succeeded, and would not succeed, unless the court is not in Delta State.
Members of Liberate have been reacting to the reported comments with astonishment and those named are said to be consulting their legal advisers about potential action in relation to defamation of character.  The spokesman for the Group, Mr. Cadre Drake, said:

“The comments accredited to the Governor amount to threats and intimidation and can only be seen as an undemocratic attempt to avoid dialogue with the citizenry.  It is sad that the Uduaghan Administration is making numerous attempts to stifle freedom of speech and desecrate the principal of citizen engagement as a hallmark of democracy and good governance.  The citizens have a right to play a role in how they are governed, this is sadly missing in the Nigerian democracy and Liberate was established to give Deltans this opportunity; to call it treason is very sad indeed.”

Uduaghan’s utterances came at a time when members of Liberate have been facing constant threats and intimidation from members of the Uduaghan administration.  On Facebook on October 26, several days before the governor lost his composure at the public meeting in Warri, someone writing under an assumed profile called Paul Cassidy, known to be used by Uduaghan employees, posted the following comment:

‘And there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth for members of the UK-based terrorist organisation, "Liberate - Delta State Movement". The lead terrorists are: Stephen Dieseruvwe, Jude Kakpovbia, Orode Oyiki, Rex Ekiugbo Anighoro and Judith Akiri. What is treason? Treason is plotting to overthrow a sitting government by unconstitutional means. Beware! You are warned!!!!!!’.

The similarities to the governor’s public statement on October 31 are obvious, indicating that Uduaghan and his close collaborators have been working on a policy that could include intimidation and violence against those they have identified as being behind Liberate-Delta.
Liberate has issued a statement in which it asked its members to remain cautious and vigilant but steadfast in addressing the issue of the governance of the State, and promoting accountability, transparency and progress.