millionaireman:




Self criticism is important. These ugly scenes shown by Chino are from SE states - not just from Imo state.

Nigeria has since created the type of Biafra it wants for the SE, but we do not seem to see it; whenever one is entering any of the SE states from outside the SE, one immediately gets the feeling of entering a worse Third World country.

SE leaders need to deploy available resources into providing infrastructure for the masses - such as pipe borne water, roads, educational, primary and tertiary health, etc, instead of going for vainglory projects, mostly in their state capitals.

Agukagu:


Some paid agents are all over the social media spreading lies. The Bible said woe to those that call evil good. Imo gwuru agwu. The standard of the construction work in Imo State is embarrassingly shameful. The painful aspect of substandard construction work is that we will spend another money to excavate and dispose the materials used before remedying the work. This implies double expenditure. A well constructed road may cost more but will remain in service for long. What is the need of constructing roads that will serve only a couple of weeks? Why can't our roads be like the ones in Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Ebonyi, Lagos, Abuja etc.

I am a civil engineer and I can confidently tell you that all the roads you mentioned were poorly constructed and can not withstand traffic stress for up to 1year. Check out the roundabouts: it is against design principle in traffic engineering to obstruct the view of drivers with structures. Our standard is that a driver approaching a round about must have clear view of the feeder roads to the roundabout as such structures that obstruct driver's view are not to be sited on the round about. I feel ashamed that Imo with our population of technocrats are being disgraced with the charade going on in the state in the name of construction. Please let us leave politics out of this and call a spade a spade.

millionaireman:

Self criticism is important. These ugly scenes shown by Chino are from SE states - not just from Imo state.
Nigeria has since created the type of Biafra it wants for the SE, but we do not seem to see it; whenever one is entering any of the SE states from outside the SE, one immediately gets the feeling of entering a worse Third World country.
SE leaders need to deploy available resources into providing infrastructure for the masses - such as pipe borne water, roads, educational, primary and tertiary health, etc, instead of going for vainglory projects, mostly in their state capitals.

Chiwude:
Do you mind him. Just because of Imo, Chino has scrapped the internet for all sort of bad pictures all over sub-saharan africa. Even going to the extent of posting pictures from slums in Benin, Aba, Warri, Onitsha, Cameroun, and even Zambia. Shame on Chino.

IGBOSON1:


^^^I've always complained about the quality of delivered projects in Imo State....and it's not just the roads! Governor Okorocha is spreading the states meager resources too thinly, and wants to construct many projects at the same time. But the problem now arises when he resorts to using local 'political' civil engineers to do these jobs; and after all the kick-backs and contractors profits have been removed from the already pitiable contract sum, you're now left with next to nothing to do the actual job! The problem is made even worse by the inexperienced contractor who is way in over his head with the contract he supposedly won in a competitive and transparent bidding process!

berem:
LMAO!!
That's just the main reason Chino shouldn't be taken serious. Vanbonattel might not be him as I thought.

vanbonattel:

how you failed to see tbe reason in the post by chavens beats my immaginations
he is talking about blunders made by rochas in the few road he did
but you choose to blame fg once again for rochas failed
bravo chavens, truth is bitter sha

millionaireman:


@Vonbonattel, Look closer, lots of those pix Chino is showing are federal roads in the southeast.

Even if Okorocha roads in Imo state are substandard, the fact that he opened up and linked communities that were once locked out must be appreciated.

Pls reread my posts - as an Orlu man - not a self acclaimed Orlu man - I make constructive criticisms on Okorocha govt, and praise it where necessary, I am not one of those praise singers for whom development in Imo state is posting hotels and well-paved streets in Owerri.

vanbonattel:

imo state contractors
caricatures

Chiwude:
As for Chino onye Igala, ihe m gwara gi na nzuko ndianambra bu ihe m ka turu agwa gi na thread ahu. Dike anaghi alu kwa ogu n ulo ya, si ka ah kupuru ya aka. Chino ge kwa nti ofuma. Ndi gi na ha sokwa megbisia nzuko Imo na Anambra aburozi ndigbo. Iheoma e ge mere anyi bu, ka gi choputa nzuko ndi ofe fukwara efu na nairaland. Ya sokwa gi fopu ta ya na google. E fopu ta ya, gi wujuo foto ojo enwere na ala ndiofe n'ime ye. Gi ge me ihe ahu m gwa ra gi, Konmight, Vanbonttel, Tunde salami na ndiozo agaghi hapuru nzuko anyi nudo. Otu ahu ka odi na olum.

Abagworo:
Since Okorocha demystified governance in Imo State, most professional politicians have seen him as a threat to their survival as people now know the little money received by Imo State is enough to achieve so much in 4 years and still make education free. They have been looking for excuses to prove that the money is not enough. These include but is not limited to
1) Terming Imo roads substandard when every inner village road in Nigeria is equally same standard.
2) Claiming he has borrowed beyond limit when he has not really borrowed much compared with other Southeast States.
3) Calling him Muslim and creating religious hate so that there will be crisis in Imo.
4) Planting bomb at Winners Church but fortunately Okorocha's vigilante caught the bombers only for powers from above to release them and bury the case.
5) Physically destroying some sections of roads to prove they are not solid and then taking pictures of same to post on social networks.
6) Looking for any problem that has not been solved and blaming Okorocha.
7) Turning a blind eye to the obvious beauty of Owerri while foreigners(Americans) that visit Nigeria sing the praises.
Back to dividents, the health sector is not left out
Okorocha declares free prostate and breast cancer screening at new diagnostic centre.
Governor  Rochas Okorocha has called on men from 40 years and above and women in the State to come to the Ochiedike Dialysis and Diagnostic Centre, Owerri and receive free tests for Prostate and Breast Cancer respectively.
Owelle Okorocha who declared this while commissioning the Ochiedike Dialysis and Diagnostic Centre, said the Centre which is 100% Imo State Government-owned, is in a 15-year contract with Israeli Medical Personnel to manage the centre while Medical experts resident in Israel will monitor activities in the centre as to assist wherever necessary.
Governor Okorocha said the Centre is named after his late father ‘Ochiedike’ who died of kidney failure resulting from diabetes, recounting that the trauma made him (Governor) vow to fight of the disease.
He noted that cancer has claimed the lives of many but noted that when detected at early stage, the disease can be handled and the patient’s life saved; stressing that with the modern and adequate facilities in place and the medical team working at the Centre, people of the South-East and Nigerians at large will have no need of going to India again for treatments on kidney, cancer and other illnesses
http://www.imostateblog.com/2014/10/31/okorocha-declares-free-prostate-and-breast-cancer-screening-at-new-diagnostic-centre/

Abagworo:
High definition camera technology is one weapon which can always be used against people trying to dismiss change or obvious rapid development. The picture below is unarguable about its date and state.
We can use our eyes and see the changes between October 2012 and 2014. The housing development is unprecedented and is going on simultaneously with the road. As evident from the 2012 picture the roads were almost entirely isolated 2 years ago but the area is almost filled up today with private property investments. Not Government!

vanbonattel:
am not a bad person just that i dont support bad things
maybe i fight too much byt just for things to be good
misinformation is bad
they are not telling us the truth here
all work don stop for imo now
but just belive what you like sha

Chiwude:
Millionaireman how many times will I warn you to leave this thread. Your days are numbered here Onye Obia. You can as well eat your useless constructive criticism, it's no longer needed here. Maybe when you open your state thread you can gladly criticize or rather mock your people in the eyes of all. You can even open up the floodgate ka gi na ndiofe birikwa. But for now, zu zuru puo eba ahu. We have seen your true colour onye ntisa.

UnknownT:
Naming the dialysis centre after his late dad, hope the centre wouldnt turn to his after the end of his tenure next year or next five years?

Onyegecha:

There is nothing that suggests that Ochiedike centre belongs to Imo state government. Which ministry is in charge of it? How come a white person is in charge?

millionaireman:




Self criticism is important. These ugly scenes shown by Chino are from SE states - not just from Imo state.

Nigeria has since created the type of Biafra it wants for the SE, but we do not seem to see it; whenever one is entering any of the SE states from outside the SE, one immediately gets the feeling of entering a worse Third World country.

SE leaders need to deploy available resources into providing infrastructure for the masses - such as pipe borne water, roads, educational, primary and tertiary health, etc, instead of going for vainglory projects, mostly in their state capitals.

B2mario:

Oga, you lied by the above. Tell this to someone who has not gone beyond SE.

millionaireman:
Truth is that Nigeria through military governors and PDP-imposed governors had led the southeast for decades - except Gov Okorocha. SW has since been voting to liberate their states from imposed governors. Anyhow, do you not notice a worse Third World scenario once you enter Aba from Akwa Ibom or Rivers state, or once you enter Onitsha from Asaba? Southeast states need governors that begin with counting 1 before 2 - if SE governors establish the best hospitals without first providing their subjects with treated pipeborne water, is it not like counting 1 before 2? Good sanitation begins with having clean water.

millionaireman:
Truth is that Nigeria through military governors and PDP-imposed governors had led the southeast for decades - except Gov Okorocha. SW has since been voting to liberate their states from imposed governors. Anyhow, do you not notice a worse Third World scenario once you enter Aba from Akwa Ibom or Rivers state, or once you enter Onitsha from Asaba? Southeast states need governors that begin with counting 1 before 2 - if SE governors establish the best hospitals without first providing their subjects with treated pipeborne water, is it not like counting 1 before 2? Good sanitation begins with having clean water.