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Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by bashr8: 4:31pm On Jun 15, 2012
john4pius:

have you being to the north before. are you thinking well to be Comparing Anambra with Lagos and Cross River. have you being to northern states like Kaduna, Jos and Kano. ANAMBRA IS A FAILED STATE.
the joke is on you , name any state apart from mentioned ones that can compare to anambra interms of literscy, health , employment, wealth , industries ,urbaniztions etc. if u cant then shut up your fucking mouth , no matter how bad anambra is it is still better than your caves in the north and southwest.
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by mjconcept(m): 4:35pm On Jun 15, 2012
Nigeria is not moving forward because many of us are hypocritics, how can El Rufai criticize Anambra when we have not seen meaningful development in the north we blame one another for our failures without first of all study how/why we fail we are busy pointing accusing fingers at one another.
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by bashr8: 4:36pm On Jun 15, 2012
eGuerrilla:

I believe it was an illustrious son who once wrote that, "the peacock refused to alter its dignified matter of walking just because the forest is on fire".

Just saying...
untill you can prove your state is anywhere near anambra in terms of performance you have no buisness commenting on this thread.
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by bashr8: 4:40pm On Jun 15, 2012
RoadStar:
It is hard to access the true situation on anything Igbo.
I must add that in my own experience, igbo issues have occupied to extremes of any critical dialogue.
With Igbos it is a case of Pride vs Prejudice.

that is because somepeople cannot phantom why igbos have acheived soo much for themsleves, they thought by now we will be on the same shoes with them ,begging all over the streets but we pass them , they have been going around claiming igbos especially anambra people do blood money thats why we are rich but they forgot the largest market in the world is in anambra attracting over 3 million buyers daily.
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by Ejine(m): 4:43pm On Jun 15, 2012
bestview: onye_ngbu/Al haram:

Who is Elrufai? The boko haram leader?

Biko, I want you to dispute what I posted on the link above. Ewu Gambia. cool

Chino bros, stay focused. Onye Ngbu is actually more Igbo than you'll ever be, but that's even another story.
Let's not run from pillar to post now. Cuz frankly, just like Onye Ngbu, I'd love to read your argument (and facts) controverting the points accurately highlighted by the amiable Ofodile... That is, if you have any. smiley
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by onyengbu: 4:43pm On Jun 15, 2012
You people(especially Chino11) always turn peter obi issues into a game of comparing states. That is not the issue here.

This is about Obis failures and propaganda being exposed.

Please bestview/chino, will you stop calling people names and tell us where chudi offodile lied? Can you?
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by Dainfamous: 4:45pm On Jun 15, 2012
Anambra state cannot be compare to any other state in the north because northern niaja got no life anymore even when it was a bit peacefull
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by bashr8: 4:46pm On Jun 15, 2012
Abagworo:

I believe Nigerians have deteriorated to an alarming psychological state which calls for emergency proliferation of multiple psychiatric clinics. Instead of you to oppose constructively, you've brought in unnecessary tribalism and name-calling. Every sane person knows Obi's performance has been dismal. As someone who often visited Awka and Nnewi, I once criticized him on Nairaland but had to stop because some people just like Obi made it seem like any other Nigerian criticizing Obi hates Anambra State. The impact of Ngige's short stay is still felt far more than Obi's 6 years.
thanks for the advice, i wil tell my fellow anambrains to close down all the factories and industries in nnewi , onitsha plus onitsha main market and start building only hotels just like imo state so our girls can al turn to runs girls over night cus there is nothing else to do
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by onyengbu: 4:47pm On Jun 15, 2012
Ejiné:

Chino bros, stay focused. Onye Ngbu is actually more Igbo than you'll ever be, but that's even another story.
Let's not run from pillar to post now. Cuz frankly, just like Onye Ngbu, I'd actually love to read your argument (and facts) controverting the points accurately highlighted by the amiable Ofodile... That is, if you have any. smiley
Exactly my point!
I am not just more igbo than that idiot can be, I am more anambrarian than him. He is from Ihialla while I am from Idemilli. No amount of state creation can remove us from anambra but Chino's people might go with their own state any time any new state is created out of anambra.
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by bashr8: 4:49pm On Jun 15, 2012
onye_ngbu*:
You people(especially Chino11) always turn peter obi issues into a game of comparing states. That is not the issue here.

This is about Obis failures and propaganda being exposed.

Please bestview/chino, will you stop calling people names and tell us where chudi offodile lied? Can you?
that is because yorubas and nirtherners understand the power of ropaganda more than some foolish igbos like you , when someone from a war torn region declare an indutrial state or region failed, inhabitable or worst place to do buisness then he has a mission. its called PULL them down mentality. you can turn dubai or paris into somalia with media propaganda.
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by john4pius: 4:51pm On Jun 15, 2012
bashr8: the joke is on you , name any state apart from mentioned ones that can compare to anambra interms of literscy, health , employment, wealth , industries ,urbaniztions etc. if u cant then shut up your fucking mouth , no matter how bad anambra is it is still better than your caves in the north and southwest.

mr man its only a failure that will compare his/herself with another failure. keep on thinking of Places like sokoto and called Anambra a success. I am from Anambra and i schooled @ unizik in awka the state capital of Anambra and still i cant even compare it to Agbaka in Enugu becos agbaka is far more developed compared to Awka. Grow up and tell yourself d truth.
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by Ejine(m): 4:51pm On Jun 15, 2012
For God's sake, WHY ARE YOU GUYS TAKING THIS SO GODDAMNED PERSONAL!? undecided

Why are you all trying to turn this into a state-state contest? If I'm correct, the critique is based on Obi's administration!
So why not make arguments based on that instead of posting all this nonsense I'm seeing here?

Na your papa dem diss? Peter Obi na your fada? Why the PHUCK are you drinking his Panadol by fighting people for highlighting the obvious!!!?

I don't get it.
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by bashr8: 4:54pm On Jun 15, 2012
john4pius:

mr man its only a failure that will compare his/herself with another failure. keep on thinking of Places like sokoto and called Anambra a success. I am from Anambra and i schooled @ unizik in awka the state capital of Anambra and still i cant even compare it to Agbaka in Enugu becos agbaka is far more developed compared to Awka. Grow up and tell yourself d truth.
why enugu , why dont u move to elrufai state in the north ? ewu mkpi
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by bashr8: 4:56pm On Jun 15, 2012
Ejiné: For God's sake, WHY ARE YOU GUYS TAKING THIS SO GODDAMNED PERSONAL!? undecided

Why are you all trying to turn this into a state-state contest? If I'm correct, the critique is based on Obi's administration!
So why not make arguments based on that instead of posting all this nonsense I'm seeing here?

Na your papa dem diss? Peter Obi na your fada? Why the PHUCK are you drinking his Panadol by fighting people for highlighting the obvious!!!?

I don't get it.
it has nothing to do with peter obi , i could care less, it good to adress lies and rumours, no state is performing in nigeria but anambra is still ahead of all those mushroom states especially el rufai state all round.
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by onyengbu: 4:57pm On Jun 15, 2012
Ejiné: For God's sake, WHY ARE YOU GUYS TAKING THIS SO GODDAMNED PERSONAL!? undecided

Why are you all trying to turn this into a state-state contest? If I'm correct, the critique is based on Obi's administration!
So why not make arguments based on that instead of posting all this nonsense I'm seeing here?

Na your papa dem diss? Peter Obi na your fada? Why the PHUCK are you drinking his Panadol by fighting people for highlighting the obvious!!!?

I don't get it.
If you check, you might discover that Peter Obi is actually more than papa to some of them. I sincerely dont blame them.

I have a friend who is an aide to one of obi's commissioners and my guy (who is by the way a mugu when we were in UNIZIK) is now made! We used to critique obi together till he joined 'them' grin
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by bashr8: 4:59pm On Jun 15, 2012
onye_ngbu*:

If you check, you might discover that Peter Obi is actually more than papa to some of them. I sincerely dont blame them.

I have a friend who is an aide to one of obi's commissioners and my guy (who is by the way a mugu when we were in UNIZIK) is now made! We used to critique obi together till he joined 'them' grin
its obvious you know nothing about anambra people nobody cares about peter obi , we are indifferent about him this is not an attack on peter obi btw , if he wanted to attack peter obi he would have done it before his second tenure not now he is about leaving office.
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by Kobojunkie: 5:05pm On Jun 15, 2012
Like I said, this has more to do with an inferiority complex than it has to do with pride.


Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by onyengbu: 5:06pm On Jun 15, 2012
bashr8: its obvious you know nothing about anambra people nobody cares about peter obi , we are indifferent about him this is not an attack on peter obi btw , if he wanted to attack peter obi he would have done it before his second tenure not now he is about leaving office.
Nwoke m go and sit down. It is not even an attack in the first place.

Obi is a propaganda specialist and the only way he can divert the criticism is painting it as a tribal thing.
I know that these northerners and Yorubas are too tribalistic but this one has nothing to do with it. Like Chudi ofodile said, I am not insulted by Ayatolla Rufai, it is only my intelligence that was insulted by Obi thinking he can make everyone see it as an attack on igbos. Again he failed!
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by bashr8: 5:07pm On Jun 15, 2012
onye_ngbu*:

Nwoke m go and sit down. It is not even an attack in the first place.

Obi is a propaganda specialist and the only way he can divert the criticism is painting it as a tribal thing.
I know that these northerners and Yorubas are too tribalistic but this one has nothing to do with it. Like Chudi ofodile said, I am not insulted by Ayatolla Rufai, it is only my intelligence that was insulted by Obi thinking he can make everyone see it as an attack on igbos. Again he failed!
it is an attacj because it is filled with lies and false statistics, come to this page and stopp playing dummy https://www.nairaland.com/965021/el-rufa-impressive-misrepresentations-anambra#11124508
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by bashr8: 5:09pm On Jun 15, 2012
Kobojunkie: Like I said, this has more to do with an inferiority complex than it has to do with pride.




considring you come from the most backward part of the south you have no buisness commenting on this thread or talking about inferiority complex cause its a contradiction of reality https://www.nairaland.com/965021/el-rufa-impressive-misrepresentations-anambra#11124508
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by onyengbu: 5:11pm On Jun 15, 2012
bashr8: it is an attacj because it is filled with lies and false statistics, come to this page and stopp playing dummy https://www.nairaland.com/965021/el-rufa-impressive-misrepresentations-anambra#11124508
Before i go to your link, if the link is saying that Bin rufai misrepresented facts (like the url suggests), what stopped Obi from showing the world such link and make a fool of Bin Rufai rather than spinning the whole thing out of proportion.
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by bashr8: 5:13pm On Jun 15, 2012
onye_ngbu*:

Before i go to your link, if the link is saying that Bin rufai misrepresented facts (like the url suggests), what stopped Obi from showing the world such link and make a fool of Bin Rufai rather than spinning the whole thing out of proportion.
because anambra people generally dont respond to id iots, morons and rumour mongers, we have heard it all from calling us ritualist to illiterates to drug baron whatever no be today , we will keep soaring ahead of them all.
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by Kobojunkie: 5:14pm On Jun 15, 2012
Kobojunkie: Like I said, this has more to do with an inferiority complex than it has to do with pride.



Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by ACM10: 5:15pm On Jun 15, 2012
merengue: Anambra: The Where did Mallam Nasir El-Rufai go wrong in his presentation on Anambra’s budget of misplaced priorities? Is it the facts he presented that Anambra State with adult literacy at 74.0% is behind Imo (80.8%) and Abia State (78.2%) or that the two major contributors to IGR will be N6.76 billion from taxes and about N4 billion from fines and fees? If this IGR is measured against the state projected personnel costs of N16.3 billion, Anambra cannot pay its staff salaries without reliance on federal allocation; this means it is one of those ‘dependent’ states and is not economically viable for independent existence. Can anyone fault this simple analysis from information provided by the government itself?

I need not restate all that El-Rufai laid out in that piece but I was surprised that he was accused by Governor Obi of insulting the Igbos and that only Anambra State indigenes can assess his administration not outsiders who have never visited the state like El-Rufai. Anyway, I am an Igbo from Anambra State and I state as follows: I do not feel insulted in anyway by the article in question and being from Anambra State, I wish to exercise the right which the Governor graciously granted only the indigenes of Anambra state, which is the right to assess his administration.

Peter Obi brought civility into governance in Anambra State at a time politics in the state had degenerated to dangerous and unacceptable levels. That I must concede. But he has also taken, as they say, liberty for license, engaged in needless propaganda, pursuit of federal lucre and in the process, squandered a golden opportunity to positively transform a fruitful virgin state.

Propaganda works and it has worked well for Peter Obi, but it has its limits. One of the areas where a lot of propaganda has gone into in Anambra state is road construction. A lot of quality roads were constructed by the Ngige administration. But the present government claimed to have ‘Asphalted’ over 500 km of roads and claims that Anambra State has the best network of roads in the Country. How much did it cost the state, assuming the number is accurate and of what quality?

A government that prides itself as the most prudent in Nigeria should present the whole picture to its citizens. For instance, in May, 2011, the government of Cross River State under Senator Liyel Imoke, signed contract agreements Publicly with eight contractors for the construction of 474 km of roads valued at N20.325 billion to cover 28 communities across the State under the Cross River Rural Access and Mobility Project. The Projects are being jointly funded by the African Development Bank contributing N7.016 billion and Cross River State contributing N13.308 billion.

How much exactly did the 500km of roads built in Anambra State by Governor Obi cost? Informed citizens have put the figure at between N48 billion and N60 billion, more than double of what Cross River State is spending for corresponding kilometers of roads. As regards the quality of the roads, most indigenes would admit that you can determine which road was done under Ngige and the ones under Peter Obi by the standard. The roads built under Ngige are of a much higher quality. Most of the roads done by Peter Obi will have to be re-awarded, a case of penny wise, pound foolish.

Another major propaganda point is that the government of Peter Obi has not borrowed while other profligate states have been borrowing recklessly. How can a state with massive infrastructure deficits keep its funds in the bank while the Governor’s major developmental efforts will be in commissioning of bore holes, immunization programmes and giving grants to schools seeking accreditation? How much of the state government money is actually in the bank and can the government come out categorically and deny the rumor that over N150 million is paid out by the ‘banks’ as commission every month? Is there a correlation between these monthly commission payments from the banks and the fact that the average cycle of contracts and payment in the state is two to three years sometimes more in order to maintain a certain minimum bank balance?

While rebuking El-Rufai for daring to point out the facts about the state, the Governor claimed that he has attracted industries to the state and mentioned two: Innoson Motors and SAB Miller Breweries in Onitsha. Innocent Chukwuma is from Nnewi in Anambra state. His company, Innoson has always been in Nnewi, long before Obi became Governor. It started as a motorcycle assembly plant before moving to buses, and other vehicles. So Peter Obi did not attract Innoson to Anambra State. He considers as a major achievement the fact that he built the road leading to the Innoson factory and brought the President to commission it. Congratulations!

On Sab Miller, the Governor will need to address the rumor making rounds in the state concerning the ownership of 22% of Sab Miller shares. Anambra State Government owns 10% while the remaining 12% is said to be owned by other businessmen from Anambra State. Who are those other businessmen? Since they are not ghosts, it is important that their names be made public to avoid ugly rumors.

Talking about investment in the state, the Governor is known to be a successful trader before he became Governor. If the state is so attractive for business, what informed the decision of his own company NEXT International to invest over N12 billion building the two largest shopping malls in Abuja, one in Mabushi and the other in Central Area, opposite federal ministry of transport? The Governor announced proudly that this year, he will pay N32 million as tax in Anambra State. Why invest and create employment outside the state and then pay tax in Anambra State? It is a very strange way of doing things. Anambra State needs the investment and jobs that the Governor outsourced to Abuja and other places. I call on the Governor to publish his tax returns to know exactly where the N32 million income tax is coming from. Is it from dividends or other sources? Since he mentioned it, we need to know more.

Anambra State is a rural state and nobody can deny that. It has no airport, no stadium and no good public secondary school. If you fall sick in the state and you are unable to navigate yourself to the Nnamdi Azikiwe Federal University Teaching Hospital, you are finished. The State University Teaching Hospital, Awka, which was ‘commissioned’ by President Jonathan in 2010, is still an ongoing project in 2012. Yet, the money is in the bank! None of the three ‘cities’ within the state; Awka, Onitsha, Nnewi is really habitable. There is no public water supply system in those areas. The Government of Obi competes with individuals in the provision of boreholes all over the state with his so called development partners. No place like that can attract talents who will contribute to the development of the state.

Little wonder then, that two out of every three property/land transactions in Asaba and Enugu involve indigenes of Anambra State. Most members, past and present of Anambra State House of Assembly and Commissioners including most of the bank managers in Anambra State, all have their houses in Asaba and Enugu from where they commute to Anambra State. Why not? Their children have to attend good schools which do not exist in Anambra State. What Obi has managed to achieve in six years, is sustaining the rural status of the state.

The only habitable estate in Awka Capital Territory is the Udoka Housing Estate built by the Chukuemeka Ezeife administration in 1991/92. Across the other side of the Enugu – Onitsha expressway is the Ngozika Estate built by Obi’s government of a quality much lower than the Jakande houses of the eighties. He claims to have secured accreditation for School of Health Technology, Obosi, School of Midwifery, Nkpor, School of Nursing, Iyienu. Fine! But these are institutions built by his predecessors and he is listing securing accreditation as his achievement.

He announced that he invested N4 billion of state funds in Orient Petroleum but it was conceptualized and set up by Dr. Mbadinuju. The Anambra State University was set up by the same Mbadinuju and when Peter Obi builds a faculty building or hostel in the school, he will advertise it as a monumental achievement. Yet he claims that there was nothing on ground when he became Governor of the state. Even the Women Development Centre, Awka which is Anambra’s equivalent of the International Conference Centre, Abuja [Don’t laugh] was built by Mbadinuju. And I ask, apart from the State Secretariat, what project of note has Peter Obi initiated and completed in the past six years?

Thisday newspaper in awarding Governor Obi (4) four stars in its rating of Governors stated among other things that he built 77 bridges and 103 Schools. These are unsubstantiated claims. Some bridges, yes but not a single school was built under Peter Obi. What he did was that he awarded contracts to the 177 town unions in Anambra State to build 4000 classroom blocks in the schools within their communities. Unprecedented absurdity! He has no coherent educational policy. He would donate computers to some schools, give some principals’ money directly to build toilets in their schools and then supply some with generators as the spirit moves him. When the cacophonous interventions failed, he then out of frustration, rather than a carefully thought out policy, handed over the schools to the missions to continue from where they stopped 40 years ago. Lord have mercy!!

Thisday again listed a new Onitsha hotel and convention centre under construction as one of his achievements. This brings me to the issue of transparency and due process. Contracts under Obi are generally not advertised and are usually arbitrarily awarded. This ongoing convention centre was one of the few advertised and tenders received from companies all over Nigeria. After the pre-qualification and opening of the financial and technical bids, Costain won the bid and was invited by the Anambra State Ministry of Commerce to collect the award letter. Before that could be done, Obi unilaterally awarded the contract to another company. Serious companies avoid Anambra State resulting in the poor quality of work seen in the projects undertaken by Obi’s government.

Governor Obi has announced two years to the end of his tenure that he will build a new Governor’s Lodge and Governor’s Office before he hands over in March 2014. Informed citizens are asking him not to bother. Since he has lived in a temporary governor’s lodge and operated from a temporary governor’s office for six years there’s no hurry.

Lest I forget, three years ago when people complained about the lack of development in the State, Governor Obi announced to Anambra people that he was developing a base map for Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi with a United Nations group, Habitat in order to have orderly development. Great idea! Three years after, can someone please ask the Governor the status of the ‘base map’?


Hon. Chudi Offodile is a Lawyer and former member of the House of Representatives who served between 1999-2006 representing Awka North/Awka South Federal Constituency, Anambra State. He was also Chairman of the Public Petitions Committee of the House of Representatives.[/b]

I agree with every sentence in this article 100%. Peter Obi is a spectacular flop and a huge disappointment. I feel embarrassed
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by onyengbu: 5:17pm On Jun 15, 2012
ACM10:

I agree with every sentence in this article 100%. Peter Obi is a spectacular flop and a huge disappointment. I feel embarrassed
Is that why you have to quote the whole post? Nnaaaaaaaa eeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhh!
I bukwa onye ngbu ooooo
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by SisiKill1: 5:17pm On Jun 15, 2012
merengue: Anambra: The Limits of Propaganda
By Hon. Chudi Offodile

http://omojuwa.com/2012/re-anambra-the-limits-of-propaganda-nasir-ahmad-el-rufai

Where did Mallam Nasir El-Rufai go wrong in his presentation on Anambra’s budget of misplaced priorities? Is it the facts he presented that Anambra State with adult literacy at 74.0% is behind Imo (80.8%) and Abia State (78.2%) or that the two major contributors to IGR will be N6.76 billion from taxes and about N4 billion from fines and fees? If this IGR is measured against the state projected personnel costs of N16.3 billion, Anambra cannot pay its staff salaries without reliance on federal allocation; this means it is one of those ‘dependent’ states and is not economically viable for independent existence. Can anyone fault this simple analysis from information provided by the government itself?

I need not restate all that El-Rufai laid out in that piece but I was surprised that he was accused by Governor Obi of insulting the Igbos and that only Anambra State indigenes can assess his administration not outsiders who have never visited the state like El-Rufai. Anyway, I am an Igbo from Anambra State and I state as follows: I do not feel insulted in anyway by the article in question and being from Anambra State, I wish to exercise the right which the Governor graciously granted only the indigenes of Anambra state, which is the right to assess his administration.

Peter Obi brought civility into governance in Anambra State at a time politics in the state had degenerated to dangerous and unacceptable levels. That I must concede. But he has also taken, as they say, liberty for license, engaged in needless propaganda, pursuit of federal lucre and in the process, squandered a golden opportunity to positively transform a fruitful virgin state.

Propaganda works and it has worked well for Peter Obi, but it has its limits. One of the areas where a lot of propaganda has gone into in Anambra state is road construction. A lot of quality roads were constructed by the Ngige administration. But the present government claimed to have ‘Asphalted’ over 500 km of roads and claims that Anambra State has the best network of roads in the Country. How much did it cost the state, assuming the number is accurate and of what quality?

A government that prides itself as the most prudent in Nigeria should present the whole picture to its citizens. For instance, in May, 2011, the government of Cross River State under Senator Liyel Imoke, signed contract agreements Publicly with eight contractors for the construction of 474 km of roads valued at N20.325 billion to cover 28 communities across the State under the Cross River Rural Access and Mobility Project. The Projects are being jointly funded by the African Development Bank contributing N7.016 billion and Cross River State contributing N13.308 billion.

How much exactly did the 500km of roads built in Anambra State by Governor Obi cost? Informed citizens have put the figure at between N48 billion and N60 billion, more than double of what Cross River State is spending for corresponding kilometers of roads. As regards the quality of the roads, most indigenes would admit that you can determine which road was done under Ngige and the ones under Peter Obi by the standard. The roads built under Ngige are of a much higher quality. Most of the roads done by Peter Obi will have to be re-awarded, a case of penny wise, pound foolish.

Another major propaganda point is that the government of Peter Obi has not borrowed while other profligate states have been borrowing recklessly. How can a state with massive infrastructure deficits keep its funds in the bank while the Governor’s major developmental efforts will be in commissioning of bore holes, immunization programmes and giving grants to schools seeking accreditation? How much of the state government money is actually in the bank and can the government come out categorically and deny the rumor that over N150 million is paid out by the ‘banks’ as commission every month? Is there a correlation between these monthly commission payments from the banks and the fact that the average cycle of contracts and payment in the state is two to three years sometimes more in order to maintain a certain minimum bank balance?

While rebuking El-Rufai for daring to point out the facts about the state, the Governor claimed that he has attracted industries to the state and mentioned two: Innoson Motors and SAB Miller Breweries in Onitsha. Innocent Chukwuma is from Nnewi in Anambra state. His company, Innoson has always been in Nnewi, long before Obi became Governor. It started as a motorcycle assembly plant before moving to buses, and other vehicles. So Peter Obi did not attract Innoson to Anambra State. He considers as a major achievement the fact that he built the road leading to the Innoson factory and brought the President to commission it. Congratulations!

On Sab Miller, the Governor will need to address the rumor making rounds in the state concerning the ownership of 22% of Sab Miller shares. Anambra State Government owns 10% while the remaining 12% is said to be owned by other businessmen from Anambra State. Who are those other businessmen? Since they are not ghosts, it is important that their names be made public to avoid ugly rumors.

Talking about investment in the state, the Governor is known to be a successful trader before he became Governor. If the state is so attractive for business, what informed the decision of his own company NEXT International to invest over N12 billion building the two largest shopping malls in Abuja, one in Mabushi and the other in Central Area, opposite federal ministry of transport? The Governor announced proudly that this year, he will pay N32 million as tax in Anambra State. Why invest and create employment outside the state and then pay tax in Anambra State? It is a very strange way of doing things. Anambra State needs the investment and jobs that the Governor outsourced to Abuja and other places. I call on the Governor to publish his tax returns to know exactly where the N32 million income tax is coming from. Is it from dividends or other sources? Since he mentioned it, we need to know more.

Anambra State is a rural state and nobody can deny that. It has no airport, no stadium and no good public secondary school. If you fall sick in the state and you are unable to navigate yourself to the Nnamdi Azikiwe Federal University Teaching Hospital, you are finished. The State University Teaching Hospital, Awka, which was ‘commissioned’ by President Jonathan in 2010, is still an ongoing project in 2012. Yet, the money is in the bank! None of the three ‘cities’ within the state; Awka, Onitsha, Nnewi is really habitable. There is no public water supply system in those areas. The Government of Obi competes with individuals in the provision of boreholes all over the state with his so called development partners. No place like that can attract talents who will contribute to the development of the state.

Little wonder then, that two out of every three property/land transactions in Asaba and Enugu involve indigenes of Anambra State. Most members, past and present of Anambra State House of Assembly and Commissioners including most of the bank managers in Anambra State, all have their houses in Asaba and Enugu from where they commute to Anambra State. Why not? Their children have to attend good schools which do not exist in Anambra State. What Obi has managed to achieve in six years, is sustaining the rural status of the state.

The only habitable estate in Awka Capital Territory is the Udoka Housing Estate built by the Chukuemeka Ezeife administration in 1991/92. Across the other side of the Enugu – Onitsha expressway is the Ngozika Estate built by Obi’s government of a quality much lower than the Jakande houses of the eighties. He claims to have secured accreditation for School of Health Technology, Obosi, School of Midwifery, Nkpor, School of Nursing, Iyienu. Fine! But these are institutions built by his predecessors and he is listing securing accreditation as his achievement.

He announced that he invested N4 billion of state funds in Orient Petroleum but it was conceptualized and set up by Dr. Mbadinuju. The Anambra State University was set up by the same Mbadinuju and when Peter Obi builds a faculty building or hostel in the school, he will advertise it as a monumental achievement. Yet he claims that there was nothing on ground when he became Governor of the state. Even the Women Development Centre, Awka which is Anambra’s equivalent of the International Conference Centre, Abuja [Don’t laugh] was built by Mbadinuju. And I ask, apart from the State Secretariat, what project of note has Peter Obi initiated and completed in the past six years?

Thisday newspaper in awarding Governor Obi (4) four stars in its rating of Governors stated among other things that he built 77 bridges and 103 Schools. These are unsubstantiated claims. Some bridges, yes but not a single school was built under Peter Obi. What he did was that he awarded contracts to the 177 town unions in Anambra State to build 4000 classroom blocks in the schools within their communities. Unprecedented absurdity! He has no coherent educational policy. He would donate computers to some schools, give some principals’ money directly to build toilets in their schools and then supply some with generators as the spirit moves him. When the cacophonous interventions failed, he then out of frustration, rather than a carefully thought out policy, handed over the schools to the missions to continue from where they stopped 40 years ago. Lord have mercy!!

Thisday again listed a new Onitsha hotel and convention centre under construction as one of his achievements. This brings me to the issue of transparency and due process. Contracts under Obi are generally not advertised and are usually arbitrarily awarded. This ongoing convention centre was one of the few advertised and tenders received from companies all over Nigeria. After the pre-qualification and opening of the financial and technical bids, Costain won the bid and was invited by the Anambra State Ministry of Commerce to collect the award letter. Before that could be done, Obi unilaterally awarded the contract to another company. Serious companies avoid Anambra State resulting in the poor quality of work seen in the projects undertaken by Obi’s government.

Governor Obi has announced two years to the end of his tenure that he will build a new Governor’s Lodge and Governor’s Office before he hands over in March 2014. Informed citizens are asking him not to bother. Since he has lived in a temporary governor’s lodge and operated from a temporary governor’s office for six years there’s no hurry.

Lest I forget, three years ago when people complained about the lack of development in the State, Governor Obi announced to Anambra people that he was developing a base map for Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi with a United Nations group, Habitat in order to have orderly development. Great idea! Three years after, can someone please ask the Governor the status of the ‘base map’?


Hon. Chudi Offodile is a Lawyer and former member of the House of Representatives who served between 1999-2006 representing Awka North/Awka South Federal Constituency, Anambra State. He was also Chairman of the Public Petitions Committee of the House of Representatives.[/b]


Finally someone with sense AND not blinded by silly tribalism!!!!
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by koolbe(m): 5:18pm On Jun 15, 2012
Most of u here av neva been to Anambra!!!! Obi has been a total FAILURE!!!
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by onyengbu: 5:18pm On Jun 15, 2012
Sisi_Kill:


Finally someone with sense AND not blinded by silly tribalism!!!!

What is wrong wit u guys sef?!!! Why quote the whole thing?
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by onyengbu: 5:20pm On Jun 15, 2012
koolbe: Most of u here av neva been to Anambra!!!! Obi has been a total FAILURE!!!
Chino lives in anambra and im sure somebody like him will table a tenure elongation bill for Obi next year grin
Re: Peter Obi And The Limits Of Propaganda by bashr8: 5:20pm On Jun 15, 2012
El-Rufa’i’s Impressive Misrepresentations

13 Jun 2012

Mallam Nasir el-Rufa’i’s analysis of Anambra State’s 2012 budget lacked the objectivity and attention to available evidence needed for believable conclusions. He certainly got some data on physical and human geography and capped it with random and recondite statistics. This is all right where the targeting audience is foreign, especially if el-Rufa’i wants to later assemble the episodes in a book; as one suspects that he will eventually do. It will then be the seminal work of a good governance minded African – in principle at least.


El-Rufa’i’s claims about poverty in Anambra State is the exact opposite of the truth. This is evident in the Poverty Profile Report of the National Bureau of Statistics, published in the Punch Newspaper of February 14, 2012. Corroboration can be found in the congruence of government efforts and the self reliance driving the state’s economy. Dr. Magnus Kpakol, as head of the national poverty eradication programme, said as much on December 31, 2010. This was during the flag-off of the payment of the Poverty Reduction Accelerator Investment and second phase of the Care of the People (COPE) programme, when he urged other state governors to emulate Anambra.


El-Rufa’i used faulty data which had been officially brought to the attention of the Minister of National Planning, Minister of Finance, the Vice-President and the National Economic Council. Is it not curious that the source of El-Rufa’i’s statistics shows Anambra to be poorer than Yobe, Taraba and Sokoto States?



At the governor’s meeting of May 22, 2012, with the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi Chapters, the Chairman, Dr. Chile Obidigbo, confirmed that the state had performed beyond their expectations in its promise to encourage and empower indigenous manufactures. Mr. Peter Obi is the only governor who meets regularly with them.

Anambra has special funds in the Bank of Industry (BoI) for manufacturers. Obi laid the foundation stone for the construction of Innoson Motor Manufacturing Company, built the road leading to the factory and invited President Goodluck Jonathan to inaugurate it. Cutic cable in Nnewi has a related story and there is close interface with firms like Chikason, Orange Drugs and other manufacturing companies in the state says a lot more than can be gleaned from El-Rufa’i’s analysis.


The second largest brewer in the world with the market capitalisation of close to 50 billion pounds and which is twice bigger than MTN, BA Miller, will commence production in Anambra; with the state investing N2 billion. Anambra State has more bank branches than the entire South-east put together and the numbers doubled under Obi’s tenure. Whereas Anambra State had about three really good hotels in 2006, today there are over 30 of them.


The Ambassadors of the USA, Russia, EU, China, Denmark, Canada and South Africa, among others, have visited the state; each concluding some investment conversation before leaving. Development partners have quadrupled their interventions in the state. Anambra is a reprioritisation economically impactful road networks and targeting roads that will enable farmers get their goods to the market; and link communities needing economies of scale by leveraging their areas of strength. Local governments like Anambra East, Anambra West, Ogbaru and Ayamelum got roads for the first time under Obi. On record today, there are over 600 kms of physically measurable major (and interconnecting) roads, built within the last six years.


El-Rufa’i set out to educate people about the Anambra State Youth Reorientation and Empowerment Programme (ANSYREP), but without first informing himself. The funding of the remaining beneficiaries will be concluded next month. More new and thriving fish farms and poultry houses will merge to empty their yield into the market at considerable profit. New trained floor tilers, electricians, painters, hairdressers and barbers, as well as roofing and ceiling P.O.P service providers, tailors, confectioners, etc are the deliverable from the programme. Many beneficiaries of the programme are now employers of labour and others used the ANSYREP leverage to better prepare themselves for the WIN programme of the Federal Government; and some of whom got up to N20 million from the Federal Government for their respective businesses.


A more diligent writer would have gone beyond the generalisations supplied by paid researchers to note that there has been no bank robbery in Anambra State for the better half of a year now. The state chose to equip the police, which has so far got over 300 vehicles, communication gadgets and offered other forms of logistical support. The data on crime rate exists for reference. Only last month the community-police parole initiative was announced to be facilitated with security vehicles for each of the 177 communities in the state. Every community gets regular security funds of N500,000.


Anambra is among the very few states actually paying the new national minimum wage and was the first to pay it in the South-east. But the state did not accept demands for pay hike based on workers’ comparative assessment of what their ‘professional colleagues’ were earning in other states with higher revenue base. The government showed its receipts and asked how their demands would be accommodated. The strikes were eventually called off, without the pay rise. But attention was focused on ‘the fact’ of a strike and not on its underpinnings and final resolution.


A state that hosts the most non-indigenes in the South-east, in which the Northern community now has a traditional ruler tells a story: The logic of settlement is that people flock to places of higher economic value. The 1000 housing units making up the second phase of Ngozika Estate have all been completely bought; with the state government under pressure to build 10,000 more. This is poverty, per excellence!
Its youth empowerment programmes always have values reorientation components. As for the state doing nothing about then crude oil deposit in the state Orient Petroleum was formed in 2001 and only got energised under Obi; for which the chairman of the company, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, made his appreciation public. In addition to constructing the road leading to the facility for over N! billion, the state government has invested N4 billion in the project.


In education, Anambra State had a celebrated school handover to their former church owners last year, along with money for equipment and rehabilitation. There is N6 billion in the bank, for the four years’ salaries of the teachers.

This is in addition to a public apology for the rude takeover of the schools without compensation 40 year ago and an open admission that government’s takeover of schools is responsible for the collapse of morals and standards. Anambra has consistently remained among the first three states with the highest number of JAMB applicants and the performance of Anambra students in national and international academic competitions give the lie to el-Rufai’s analysis.


It is true that the health sector got N1.4 billion in the 2012 budget, but that is because there are multiples of that amount being expended in the health sector by development partners. Before the current government, no health institution in the state was accredited, but two modern hospitals are now accredited.

The following have also been accredited: College of Heath Technology, Obosi; College of Nursing and Midwifery, Nkpor; and School of Nursing, Iyienu, among others. Hospitals have been built and rehabilitated, hospital equipment have been procured, various health programmes are implemented.


The state is funding 10 hostels in various missionary-owned hospitals this year, while a new maternity complex at Waterside is under construction. Borromeo hospital at Iyienu and Adazi got over N500 million attracted by government from development partners.


This scenario is also applicable in the water sector, where Anambra is working on many water projects with support from development partners, like the EU, UNICEF and MDGs. This year alone, the MDGs will deliver eight major town water schemes and UNICEF will provide water to 30 communities in Ogbaru, etc.


Agricultural sector is private-sector focused and the state recently secured N1 billion loan for farmers. Close to N1 billion is committed to the FADAMA project and Anambra’s FADAMA III is regarded as the best in the country by the World Bank. But el-Rufai does not know any of these. He also does not know that the state is working on over 27 erosion sites. In the usual delusional language of a presumed economic crusader, he advised the government of Obi to cut down on the size and cost of government, not knowing that the cut down on all costs is already 40.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/el-rufa-i-s-impressive-misrepresentations/117885/

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