Nairaland Forum

Okija juju:


Maybe he should go and ask Obama how he created employment in America that saw the Dow Jones rise to a record high this year. And Obama did not arrest sagging youths and the unemployed, otherwise three quarters of Alanta youths would have been in jail, let alone the other 50 something states.

Rochas is clueless as to what governance initials. He is just like Odili who believed in sharing money around. Imo State has absolutely nothing going for it other than cheap bars, cheap hotels and not clubs. The government is still the highest employer of labor in Imo State. If he wants ideas on job creation, he should ask renowned economists to teach him. PPP is one, investors incentives like tax cuts and breaks is another, electricity is one major aspect that other sensible governments are investing seriously in which Imo State has none. Imo indigenes cross into neighbouring states and obtain local government identifications to get work. Rivers States workforce has a lot of Imo State people's in it. How about investing massively in agriculture and its various by products, should I continue?

Your governor spends more time in the news, building billboards and converging Imo people in his freedom square to either make them one fake promise, celebrate his birthday or share awoof kerosene. Tell that fucktard to focus on governance and quit the shinanegans. His crap is getting stale.

Abagworo: The posters source is a fake site. Here's the real news from a reputable media.

The programme which was launched at the Heroes Square in Owerri, the Imo State capital, South East Nigeria brought together over 10,000 unemployed graduates from all the 27 local government areas in the state.

The programme is aimed at bringing all unemployed youths in the state together, identifying their different areas of specialisation and empowering them with the necessary tools which will get them fully engaged before they are gainfully employed in their desired jobs.

While decrying the high rate of unemployment in the country, the governor said corruption, selfishness and primitive accumulation of wealth by political leaders had been the major cause of unemployment in the country.

He added that as part of the action plan mapped out for the Youth Must Work programme, the state government had set aside an interest-free loan of N5 billion for thrift arrangement which will aid the youths to set up integrated farming in their communities.

Mr. Okorocha said that government would also sponsor 100 youths to South Africa to train as pilots and 500 of them to Singapore for entrepreneurial training.

Governor Okorocha stated that one of the cardinal objectives of the Youth Must Work programme is to develop the economy of the state through agriculture for which the state government had provided one hectare of land in each of the 560 communities in the state.


http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/05/21/okorocha-launches-youth-empowerment-programme/

ikokidesam: Okorocha ur next move na to ban or harest any rev father or rev sister when e no mary

Maxymilliano: .

He assured that those who would be involved in agricultural jobs, especially farming, would be adequately taken care of , while those that are not interested in other jobs would be engaged.

Some youths who listened to the Governor’s speech were not happy that he laid emphasis on the agricultural aspect of the job and“sagging”, which they particularly said had nothing do with job creation.


http://blueprintng.com/2013/05/okorocha-threatens-to-arrest-idle-youths/

chino11:

The whole world knows that ur state is home of prostitute, kidnappers because there is no other business that takes any sane person to that part of SE.

Owning a car is to help u live a better life. Am sure sun and rain must have washed away your skin..looking like a man from sahara desert. Hahaha

U can't trek all ur life, very soon u will be 40. Or motor will knock u down oneday and u will die in ur misery. 5-10m was the kind of money I made like 5-7yrs ago u still hustling to make at ur old age. That means ur indirectly telling us that u are car-phobia, because am sure u can't make such from this menial job u do treking all about ph.

I need to meet u..where are u because u def need help, instead of doing agbero work in ph. Am still at nicon luxury

slimghost: Where is Abagworo? please come and defend this.

chino11:

Yes Awka is where I stay to raise my decent family, at least is far better than your owerre that filled with prostitutes, kidnappers and child factory hahahaha
You see why I said that poverty runs in your family and it has become a life style. You are treking everyday all over ph like a mad man looking for vitamin Q..hahaha
You are a pauper that is why u tham boasting. Very soon u go use ur old mama to do rituals so that u go meet up with us.

chino11:

What you have is only your mouth and nothing more. I use Toyota corrolla and I bought my wife lexus RX300 last year for her birthday and building my house at Ngozika estate in Awka, its Lord's doing for my life.

You are just a small boy in life though u are over aged. Who knows u may even be a homo no wonder u still sleep with ur mother till today:ahaha
From all indication u are living in a shithole somewhere in ph and poverty is written all over u. If u doubt let me meet u wherever u are so that we both can take picture so that NL will know who is poverty stricken hahaha

If I may ask how long will u continue to trek under the sun and rain..very soon u will be 40. I started driving since I was a tenager but u are now 35 u are yet to ride a bicycle talkess of vehicle. Ogaranya di mma n okolobia. But don't use ur old mom for money ritual just to meet up with us.

onatisi: this is the carrot and stick treatment

chino11:


Imagine.. U don't even own a bicycle and u want to discuss car issues with car owners hahahaha.

Where u dey, iwan see u. Ur this type of people with bare head and two fit in height. Hahaha
Am ready to meet u at any place of your choice today. Give me ur location so that we can meet.
A pauper in his mother,s house at 35. Our program is for the over aged jobless people like u. Stop behaving like an ikwerre man looking for the next land to sale.

chino11:

Momys boy at 35..hahahaha
At 35 u still dey eat from your mother's pot..what a shameful old fool.
Like as I said I and my wife drives clean sweet two cars. Can u beat that? U are not even married even at age of 35 talkless of getting your own apartment hahahaha.
Am in ph to help jobless destitutes like u. Am anchoring a program now at Nicon Apartment hotel, come so that we can save ur miserable jobless life.

akinalabi:

Look at this slave.

chino11:

At least I still drive around with a posh AC car, while you still dey trek all over ph in search of menial job to do ..why not go back to imo state so that roches will use your head for another money medicine, because ur just wasting away your miserable life in ph..hahahaah

So u dey waka under sun and rain everyday and ur old mama go dey tell people my son dey ph..chai what a miserable abagworo.

Where u dey, I wan come see where u dey sweat out on daily basis all in the name of living ph while u dey live in the worst area of diobu. Maybe I will still buy you lunch today. Hahahaha
Am at Nicon Apartment hotel near Visa Karena in case u wan come enjoy with a fellow made nairalander.

chino11:


Can't stop laughing..am not boasting but, I have two 'sweet' cars in my garage in Awka- one for me and one for my wife. You are yet to start life, still jumping up and down 'skye bank bus' in PH without meaningful source of living.

FYI: am still in PH, where can I meet you? From all indication you must be this type that lives at DIOBU. Maybe by the time we meet one on one we will actually know who is poor here. You are probably one of these people that trek all over PH. I almost hit one guy at Airforce junction, my mind told me this must be abagworo crossing the road under heavy rainfall.

For more than four months now, the people and the church of the Catholic diocese of Ahiara Mbaise have been on the fire of religious tension and threat incited by some highly placed church hierarchies in the Vatican and Nigeria. Unfortunately, the advantage of hierarchical superiority, the propaganda of “it was done by Rome”, “they are rebellious and disobedient” and “they want only a bishop from their diocese”, have turned a wrong verdict on the neck of Mbaise people in the mind of few biased and uninformed people.  It is pertinent therefore to break the Emmaus bread in order to open the eyes of those either ignorant or biased regarding the truth of the current episode of Fr. Peter Okpaleke, why the people of Ahiara Diocese are resisting and why Okpaleke and his cohorts are still deadly daring and insisting. This excurses is necessary because of the few who have been biased to brand the Mbaise people ethnic or rebellious because of indisposition to the truth.

Before the Okpaleke saga, there has been a history of systemic, silent and consistent marginalization and suppression of Mbaise in the Catholic Church and a power play in and against the entire present Owerri Ecclesiastical Province and which has always at the long run boiled down to the detriment of the Mbaise church. This charade of organized discrimination and relegation machinery was instituted and pioneered by a single personality force in the Church since the 1950s. It is an imperial religious fascism which has long been parceled, garlanded and ornamented beautifully in such a presumptuous religious creed that has rather sanctified and made it sacrosanct and hidden its sin in the pious docility of the people and deceptively applied papal infallibility.  It is said in Igbo that aru gbaa afo, o buru omenala (when evil is allowed unchallenged for a whole year, it becomes a tradition).  But when evil is challenged and questioned for once, those who challenge it rather become evil themselves in the eyes of its beneficiaries and the uninformed.

The history of the manipulation of the bishopric succession in Igbo land and the constant shoving of the Mbaise right with complacent impunity has been a recurrent datum from the earliest time.  There was the incident in which Rev. Fr. Edward Ahaji of Umuokirika Ekwereazu Mbaise who was considered one of the best and was expected to be a bishopric candidate of the then prospective Umuahia Diocese, was eliminated in favour of Fr. A. Gogo Nwedo of Umuahia in 1945 even to the surprise of Fr. Mark Unegbu. But “There was no cry of anit-Mbaise sentiments or stereotype then when Ahaji was not selected”. Again, history had it that Fr. Nwedo was supposed to be transferred from Umuahia to succeed Bishop Heery in the then Onistsha Diocese in 1967 as the Holy Ghost Fathers did not want Arinze to succeed Bishop Heery.  But Nwedo was frustrated and prevented  from being the bishop of Onitsha by the combined forces of Bishop Mark Unegbu and Fr. Francis Arinze. Arinze personally insisted that only the son of the soil could become the bishop of Onitsha Diocese. Bishop Unegbu being his mentor, fought tooth and nail in his favour and helped Arinze enthroned on the Onitsha Episcopal seat.  Another most favoured Mbaise priest, Rev. Fr. Ignatius Okoroanyanwu was again denied the bishopric of old Owerri Diocese in favour of Rev. Fr. Mark Unegbu. This time, Bishop Arinze had to “pay off”  Fr. Mark Unegbu for giving him the Episcopal seat of Onitsha. Thus, another favoured Mbaise priest was stopped against the will of the predecessor. This Same act was initiated, superintended and achieved, in the words of erudite Fr. David Iheanacho, when, “In non-subtle manoeuvre, Archbishop Arinze cornered the Episcopal See of Owerri Diocese to his mentor, Fr. Mark Unegbu while blocking the will of Whelan and the missionaries that stated quite clearly they wanted Msgr. Ignatius Okoroanyanwu to shepherd the Episcopal See of Owerri Diocese”.  It is not surprising that this accumulated vendetta annoyed Mbaise people and soured their relationship with Bishop Unegbu for long. It was this relationship of victimization and animosity that resulted in the long refusal to create the Diocese of Ahiara until after a long drawn fight.

But the greatest shock came when on the creation, yet another person outside the new Diocese was being eyed for the Episcopal seat of the diocese but was bluffed. It is also on record that not less than two Mbaise priests still alive today have been denied being the bishops of other dioceses in Igbo land some years back. The plan to appoint them were immediately nipped in the bud before it was ever pronounced, in spite of the fact that they are usually qualified and marketable.  One wonders why a people so treated like this for years by an institutionalized and unjust hierarchy in a civilized and spiritual institution like the church, should not react once to liberate themselves from an entrenched and unjust structure. It is only a pity that the blind Timeus of our time who see human beings as if they are trees walking around, never know these paganistic dealings fraught in favoritism, son of the soil sentiment and despotism meted to Mbaise people in the past and intending to continue it in this age of enlightenment. It is unfortunate too, that they and the papal Nuncio have rather preferred to tag the Mbaise people clannish and ethnic in other to intimidate, blackmail and oppress them further.

The blackmail of the people of Ahiara Mbaise is only a defence mechanism to hide and sustain the holy apartheid against a people and continue the domination trend already institutionalized by those who have shot themselves up to the Vatican by the same sharpness.  Their plan is to extend this colonization beyond the Mbaise church and continue to mystify it with holy obedience to the Church and the Pope when the Pope is not part of their clandestine skirmishes. But embarrassed and shocked that it is now demystified and once resisted, they become hysteric, aggressive and resort to all manner of intimidation, threat and blackmail to transfer the guilt they are supposed to bear on the defenders and discredit them for blocking their prodding ambition. An information reached us that on the rejection of the appointment of Okpaleke, some priests from Awka Diocese said, “Mbaise people have divulged and exposed this thing we have been managing to do for ourselves for a long time now”.

We are therefore bound and forced to tell our story to the world, of the imminent threat and possible clamp down intended to hatch on Mbaise on a date they have fixed and imposed for themselves in order to cause mayhem and blackmail the people for not submitting to their fraud and arbitrariness.

It would be recalled that before the death of the former Bishop, he was supposed to have actually submitted “only names from his diocese” as his prospective successors according to tradition, and this is renewable as directed and demanded by the Canon law and the Vatican. In the event of a sudden death those priests whose names were submitted or other persons outside the list, but who are from the diocese by incardination or as indigenes, would be screened for appointment to the bishopric.  Coincidentally, the bishop died around the time Awka Diocese also needed a replacement for the retiring bishop, Eze Okafor. Rev. Fr. Peter Okpaleke from Awka Diocese was attempted by the godfather(s) to take over Awka, in spite of the then sitting auxiliary bishop of the diocese.  But he was rejected in his own diocese for untoward and unbecoming desperation and other reasons best known to them. It was then that, impelled by frustration and urged by the forces of distorted and unholy ambition and power, he and his allies started manipulating for Ahiara Diocesan succession with great audacious intrusion. It was this hidden and dark interference that made the two year prayer and attempt for smooth selection of the bishop of Ahiara diocese a huge frustration.  Unaware of this, the lay faithful started embarrassing Ahiara priests for their delay in selecting a bishop for two years, ignorant of the fact that it is not the priests themselves that should directly appoint the bishop and that the appointment from those submitted was being compounded by something yet unknown.

Ultimately, the obsession of Fr. Peter Okpaleke and his godfathers is purely a problem of settlement.  There is an accumulation quagmire that might logjam to a frustrating alley if he fails to cling to Ahiara Diocese unstopped. The greatest aggression of a man would always come from the frustration of accumulated and unbridled ambition that trespasses beyond his capacity and the none availability of personal resources. But such aggression could be transferred to whoever becomes the obstacle that neutralizes and brings to vanity an erroneously concluded enterprise. This has been the secrete behind their battle of survival in Ahiara Diocese and Owerri province, making Msgr. Peter Okpaleke, a supposed spiritual priest of the Church saying, “over my dead body” that he should resign the bishopric of Ahiara Diocese, in spite of all persuasions by some wise advisers.

The settlement problem choking up those masterminding the crisis of Ahiara Diocese is obvious. It should be noted that a big shot in the Vatican power broker is alleged to be choked up with the dire urgency of settling Msgr. Jonas Benson Okoye who was once his secretary and personal aid, as well as Denis Isiuzor and Peter Okpaleke, and perhaps others. It is learnt that these have been flown for the bishopric of some dioceses, for instance Awka in 2010 and the attempt met a brick wall.  Nsukka Diocese also failed to yield because the bishop emeritus warned the Nigerian bishops never to attempt to do in his Nsukka Diocese what they have done in Ahira Diocese. Therefore, Nsukka was recently given an indigenous diocesan bishop.  But there is an impending urgency to create Ekwulobia Diocese from Awka where Okpleke rightly belongs. Many wonder why Okpaleke should not have been announced for his new Ekwulobia Diocese to stop the long raging battle for Mbaise.  The obvious reason is to safeguard Ekwulobia for the settlement of the remaining others born for bishopric. Hence, it became necessary and strategic to hurriedly announce Okpaleke for Ahiara Diocese and install him at all cost to create room in Ekwulobia for the remaining lining up for settlement. If Okpaleke is militarily imposed on Ahiara, he becomes the third from Onitsha province in the seven Dioceses of Owerri Province without one from Owerri shepherding in Onitsha and till date no religious from Owerri is heading any religious congregation in Onitsha province. What a Holy Spirit and universality! If Mbaise must continue to obey the Holy Spirit and the Pope against them and in favour of a certain group since the1950s, then the Holy Spirit must have her maternal home with those people. Why then did the same Spirit not continue to allow the Papacy remain in Italy but decided to change to Germany and now Argentina?

The rejection and resistance of Ahiara Mbaise therefore stems from both the history of  suppression of the people of Mbaise in particular, Owerri province,  as well as the above chess play of vain ambition by those who see the episcopacy as their exclusive vocation in Igbo land.  But this is not an Anambra collective action. Although “Anambra”  has been used in the course of this struggle as a matter of illustration, it is never an issue of Anambranaization. The diocese is not fighting against Anambra, the papacy, his infallibility or that it must be their own son, but against injustice by one man, who is coincidentally, from Anambra. It is not a struggle of clannishness or ethnic either on the side of Mbaise people. It is purely a battle against religious imperialism and suppression of a people, who must fight for self-survival and preservation in spite of using the name of the Pope to blackmail and sedate them. Apart from these, have those who preach selfish universality asked themselves the type of justice where the people of Mbaise scattered through out the churches in Nigeria, and one of the first Diocese to loan their priests to almost all the dioceses in Nigeria to start their new dioceses and even now feed them with human, religious and financial resources, not have an indigenous bishop in the midst of the Nigerian bishops in the name of a lop-sided universality?

To crush this resistance against their huge handedness, privileged Church hierarchies have to be employed in sophisticated manners to execute the imposition and conjure up blackmail and stigmatization to indict their challengers.  Like Judas Iscariot, the Papal Nuncio, who seemed to have long perfected the act of external imposition with a grip to an offer in cash or kind, unknowingly betrayed his mind on visit to the Diocese in September 2011 in their midst of anxiety for a new bishop. He was on visit for a thanksgiving reception of a friend in Mbaise, to which he attached “accidental pastoral visit”. He personally enquired from the priests and lay faithful their pulse for the delay in the announcement of the new bishop and to know the type of bishop they would want for their Diocese. He was told. Surprisingly, he told the priests in a sophistry of language that they would be given a “catholic Bishop”, as if they were expecting a muslim bishop. He again unusually emphasized and exaggerated the “universality of the church” without regard to the local regard of the church, thereby adding to the suspicion and scare.

The suspicion for treachery came to limelight when the ordour of blackmail and accusation fouled the air that there was petition and counter petition among the priests of Ahiara. Meanwhile, the papal Nuncio was the only one to whom the documents of enquiry were passed under very high and exclusive secrecy. In a twinkle, the rumour of petition was followed with another strange rumour of a strange name as strong contender among the proposed candidates of priests of the Diocese. Up till today, the bishops and the Nuncio have not answered the question of who put the name, for what reason and when all the possible candidates in the diocese and province were exhausted before extending the search to Awka.

Following the rumour, the Nuncio was immediately warned and appealed to in writing that this suspected imposition “would mean that none of all the Ahiara Diocesan priests is trustworthy now and implicitly poses the question of whether any could become trustworthy in the future. This could cause a big rift between people and priests in this Diocese for a long time because suspicion of sectarian in fighting would have been admitted if not approved. And if this happens, political considerations would have been respected… And on a very serious note, this would make late Bishop Chikwe’s twenty two years’ efforts in correcting the false image of Mbaise among her neighbours and through out the nation come to nothing; and believe me, I know my people they will fight it at the level one may least expect. Let it be clear that any decision based on fabricated, false and unproven information is bound in and by itself to be false and wrong and, as such, may be resisted to the detriment of faith and morals”.

http://www.spyghana.com/ahiara-mbaise-catholic-diocese-rejection-of-anambra-indigene-as-bishop/

Okija juju:

You are just as mouthed as Rochas..

Over 2 years into his administration and;

- Imo State streets now have gates, but no roads.
- Imo State people enjoyed one round of AWOOF kerosene shared inside Imo State Stadium.
- 1 batch of 60 Students were sent to the U.S for a non-academic exchange programme at a very hefty cost to the government.
- Imo State secondary and Primary school pupils were paid 100 and 50 naira respectively.
- Imo State Univeristy was thrown open to all Imo State students, but no infrastructural upgrade has even been done in the school except the painting of the school gate for Imo State 2013 Government Calander picture.
- All Imo State assets have been sold to Rochas (ITC and Concorde hotel inclusive)
- Civil servants owed salary backlog of oer 9 months.
- Local government structure broken down.
- Formerly employed youths fired.
- 1 Imolite jailed for allowing the Governors convoy hit him.
- Rochas Okorochas 300Kg daughters wedding was put on National T.V Live for Imo State people all over to see.
- 1 roadside corn seller gets patronage from Rochas.
- Poor quality uncompleted roads all over the state
- 1 Freedom Squre built for Imo State indegenes to go and vent risk free from arrest.
- Imo State becomes the Kidnap capital of the East and South.


Is this what will bring the industrial boom you speak of?!

If so, then State like Akwa Ibom, Rivers State and Lagos States would join the G8 in 1 year. I can bet my last blood on it.


Ochi atogbue la'm o!!


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IMSG doles out N1.7b for payment of workers


Meanwhile, Imo State government has approved the release of N1.7 billion for the payment of the backlog of unpaid salaries, allowances and gratuity of workers of Imo Palm Plantation, Ohaji and Imo Concorde Hotel, Owerri.

Governor Rochas Okorocha, who announced this after a meeting with the affected workers of the two government establishments, also expressed hope that the lifeline would help in alleviating their suffering.

Scores of  aggrieved workers who thronged the Ahiajoku Convention Centre, New Owerri, were told in clear terms that the state government was not in a hurry to pay them off, especially the professionals among them.

“The professionals among Imo Palm Plantation workers would be posted to the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, where a palm plantation department would be established for them to help the state grow more palms,” Okorocha promised.

Okorocha dampened the workers’ spirit when he informed the hapless, hungry workers that the N900 million owed staff off Imo Palm Plantation and N700 million owed Concorde Hotel staff would be spread over 24 months.

julioralph: As a Catholic, I'm really disappointed to say the least!
Our brothers & sisters in the East sometimes take things too far

mimifonwon: i would have believed it if julius berger was the person awarded the project, because then i know it would be legit, they would do good quality work, instead of these no names that will cheat and do a half hazard job.

2dmax: Agbaworo, can you pls send me the link to the picture you pasted on this response? Thanks.

Dudu_Negro: WIDOWHOOD RITUALS IN IGBOLAND

If we examine the comments of two widows, this
would appear to be the only reason.
A 75 year old widow recounts her experience
when she lost her husband in 1978;I was ordered
home from Lagos to explain the cause of his
death. After I had narrated everything to them
(in-laws), they asked for his pass book (bank
savings book) and other valuable items which I
gave over to them"
A second informant, a 35 year old widow and
mother of 4, noted;Our entire property was
confiscated. A lorry was sent from home to come
and pack all the merchandise in his supermarket.
All his electronic items were also packed away.
For the past year the house has been like a battle
ground between me and them[.
Esther Nzewi has noted that in certain zones of
Imo State;the widows ordeal begin immediately
the death of her husband is announced. The in-
laws demand a list of the man's property,
holdings, investments, bank accounts etc. She is
further required to take an oath as a proof that
she has not concealed any relevant information on
her husband's wealth"



Read more....

http://www.ub.uib.no/elpub/1996/h/506001/korieh/chima-Chapter-2.html

berem: ha ha ha! The same way my paternal grandfather was buried in 1993 sitting in an upright position on his throne.

killuminati: Whaat kinda ruuuubiiisssh is that! Drink water wey dem take bath dead-body, sleep with dead-body for same room...wtf is wrong with these people?! Abeg make una let di old-man rest jorrrr!

lookmangiw: the OP of this particular thread is a joke. jonathan's popularity hitting the roof. i laugh in taiwan