Demdem: Ebele Azikwe Jonathan is on top of the situation. Be calm.

musiwa7: why dont your governor repair it.. why should the federal govt repair it for.. all federal road should be handed over too all state. federal govt should not own any road in nigeria my friend..

honeric01:

He's their pikin na, so why are they complaining? he said roads are better now and proudly-igbo attested to that, so why are you people in the east complaining?

CHESS BOARD:

Musiwa , You asked a question and you also answer it, I am surprised this is coming from a geography teacher, you should know better

Eze Promoe: When we talk of Biafra, or anything pertaining to disintegration, you term it as stupidity and non-challancy. Now tell me even if we remain in Nigeria, are we part of Nigeria? Since after the civil war all the geo-political zone have tested presidency save the South East, and some bigots upon their mouth to say we aren't due or aren't fit to rule nation, and you will call us Nigerians? Thanks to the hardworking and economical effort of the Igbos, if not Nigeria would be no different from the middle east. My God! This has gone beyond marginalization.

PROUD-IGBO:


^^^Pray, can you point to where in my initial post i said roads in the south-east are better now under GEJ?

Cheers.

PROUD-IGBO:
I think of all the geo-political zones, the south east has the worst federal roads.

Please can somebody tell me what OBJ did in/for the south east from 1999 to 2007 (apart from Onitsha-Owerri road)? Besides what we got in the general scheme of things (like GSM), that pot-bellied bastard did next to nothing: not 2nd niger bridge, not Onitsha river port, not upgrading the status of Enugu airport and reconstructing it, not Benin-Ore road, not Port Harcourt-Enugu road, not siting any federal industry/factory in the south east, not attracting nation building institutions to the south east like you have in Zaria/Kaduna/Lagos.....that man and his friends in the core north are the problem of Ndigbo, and have just been acting out the script of holding Igbos down and ensuring nothing happens in the south east.....and you wonder at the social/economic problems our youth are facing today?

It's only with the coming of GEJ that we finally have some sense of belonging.

God is watching, and no wicked deed goes unpunished!

Tony Spike:

In the Nigeria of today, having your kinsman as the president means nothing and nothing. Tell me, what will having an Igbo president achieve when your governors aren't currently doing enough? What has Yar'adua, Obasanjo and even Jonathan done for their respective zones while in power, other than to enrich a few sycophants. The best option left for anyone region in Nigeria is to push for regional autonomy and resource control. This is the only way you can be truly independent of the Federal Government delay tactics. Enough said...

okpara ugo: Am angry as you see me. There is no week i dont fix something in my car when am in the south east. The cost of fixing my car now has exceeded the cost of fuelling it.

Can you imagine that after visiting Aba this week, my car A.C. stopped funtioning thesame day? The wheel alignment i fixed in Aba before leaving malfunctioned after the trip. The number of accidented trailers on the way were about 10. All or most of their goods destroyed. Yet Road Safety Officials are on thesame roads harrassing innocent commuters. What is the essence of having Road Safety Commission in Nigeria I guess to pick up dead bodies on our roads, because we actually have no roads. Travelling has recently become a nightmare in the south east. The harsh economic situation being experienced by Nigerians is largely due to unmotorable roads. When one spends N10,000 in a week fuelling his car and then N15,000 same period fixing damages due to bad roads, you now understand the situation. Movement of goods is virtually impossible, venturing out with your own personal car is scary on what should be smooth express lanes linking cities in the south east.

Let this news get to our leaders that they are pushing the masses to the wall.

strangest:

you didn't state the type of car that you were traveling in, (I mean, is it new, tokunbo or registered)?? You may be blaming an old car issue on the road, #justthinkingoutsidethebox

okpara ugo: Am angry as you see me. There is no week i dont fix something in my car when am in the south east. The cost of fixing my car now has exceeded the cost of fuelling it.

Can you imagine that after visiting Aba this week, my car A.C. stopped funtioning thesame day? The wheel alignment i fixed in Aba before leaving malfunctioned after the trip. The number of accidented trailers on the way were about 10. All or most of their goods destroyed. Yet Road Safety Officials are on thesame roads harrassing innocent commuters. What is the essence of having Road Safety Commission in Nigeria I guess to pick up dead bodies on our roads, because we actually have no roads. Travelling has recently become a nightmare in the south east. The harsh economic situation being experienced by Nigerians is largely due to unmotorable roads. When one spends N10,000 in a week fuelling his car and then N15,000 same period fixing damages due to bad roads, you now understand the situation. Movement of goods is virtually impossible, venturing out with your own personal car is scary on what should be smooth express lanes linking cities in the south east.

Let this news get to our leaders that they are pushing the masses to the wall.

Tony Spike:

Best comment so far especially the bolded parts...We are living a lie in Nigeria. These God-forsaken, war-torn roads should be given out to state governments for rehabilitation. The last time most of these roads were rehabilitated was during Abacha's PTF era; this was one thing Abacha did inspite of the political witch-hunting.

kingoflag:

And take a wild guess who was in charge of PTF at the time?

BUHARI!!!

But today, these irredeemable tribalists will vilify him just because of his religion and his ethnicity, spread lies about him then rig in animals like Jonathan.

Like Musiwa said, why cant your Governors fix it? Why do you have to wait for the Federal Government to do everything? Imagine imbec*iles like the OP tossing blame towards OBJ, the same OBJ that gave Igbos a sense of belonging by not only including Igbo sons and daughters in his Government in large numbers, but whom also went to "War" with the North by making moves that ensured that the East (and other minority tribes in that region) would no longer be discriminated against. I'm still trying to understand why OBJ was the one being castigated by @Proud-Igbo even though GEJ is the one in charge.

If you need something done you do it yourself, thats the way of the world. Are the Non-Federal roads in the East in Pristine condition? No ? Yes? Oh, ok then.....

Ask you Governors what their doing with the Billions they get from Abuja every month instead of casting blame at parties that dont deserve it.

PROUD-IGBO:
I think of all the geo-political zones, the south east has the worst federal roads.

Please can somebody tell me what OBJ did in/for the south east from 1999 to 2007 (apart from Onitsha-Owerri road)? Besides what we got in the general scheme of things (like GSM), that pot-bellied bastard did next to nothing: not 2nd niger bridge, not Onitsha river port, not upgrading the status of Enugu airport and reconstructing it, not Benin-Ore road, not Port Harcourt-Enugu road, not siting any federal industry/factory in the south east, not attracting nation building institutions to the south east like you have in Zaria/Kaduna/Lagos.....that man and his friends in the core north are the problem of Ndigbo, and have just been acting out the script of holding Igbos down and ensuring nothing happens in the south east.....and you wonder at the social/economic problems our youth are facing today?

It's only with the coming of GEJ that we finally have some sense of belonging.

God is watching, and no wicked deed goes unpunished!

centje: did you change the constitution without our knowledge...
Unless there's a concrete means of recovering their money states dnt go into federal roads.

kingoflag:

Oh, now you remember the constitution? Tell me, what does the constitution say about rigging elections and foisting a clearly mentally unstable and unqualified person on the rest of us as head of the World's most populous black Nation just because of his language and tribal background?

Like I said when someone else complained about the Niger Bridge : IF YOU REALLY NEED IT THAT BAD, get all the Governors in the SE to come together, pool funds and erect it themselves.... then request a refund from the Center. Lagos and other Western States have done this before. My friend, Lagos kept going on for years when this same OBJ starved her of Federal Funds, so what is yall's excuse?

Hold your Governors accountable for their conscienceless decisions and stop always trying to cast blame at whoever's standing right next to you.

P.S: How are the Non-Federal Roads in the SE? Pristine or not?

kingoflag:

Oh, now you remember the constitution? Tell me, what does the constitution say about rigging elections and foisting a clearly mentally unstable and unqualified person on the rest of us as head of the World's most populous black Nation just because of his language and tribal background?

Like I said when someone else complained about the Niger Bridge : IF YOU REALLY NEED IT THAT BAD, get all the Governors in the SE to come together, pool funds and erect it themselves.... then request a refund from the Center. Lagos and other Western States have done this before. My friend, Lagos kept going on for years when this same OBJ starved her of Federal Funds, so what is yall's excuse?

Hold your Governors accountable for their conscienceless decisions and stop always trying to cast blame at whoever's standing right next to you.

P.S: How are the Non-Federal Roads in the SE? Pristine or not?

control_seven: PH-Aba road is a death trap! Aba-Umuahia road is a nightmare! Umuahia-Enugu road is like a trip to hell. Enugu-Onitsha road is an abandoned project!
Our govt, past & present are collective failures!!

musiwa7: look the federal govt should hand over all road , hospital, airport, univesities etc to state

dnawah: minus abia state