imhotep:

Igbo phobia is bad for your health.
Sit back and say to yourself: "Igbo amaka"

Are you sure you are even Igbo?

LasGidiOwner:



Are you sure you are even Igbo?

Look for me in this picture

imhotep:

And have you paid what you owe your Igbo landlord?

Do you know that the Imo state HOA has endorsed Uche Nwosu who is Okoroawusa inlaw to take over from him? Are we cursed in Imo state or is Imo state cursed?

LasGidiOwner:


Do you know that the Imo state HOA has endorsed Uche Nwosu who is Okoroawusa inlaw to take over from him? Are we cursed in Imo state or is Imo state cursed?

First deal with the huge curse called Nigger Area

Ikemba Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi tunnels Owerri.

Those culverts and its dirty roads again. I pity anyone that will use that culvert. Culverts has become tunnels in Imo state.

imhotep:

First deal with the huge curse called Nigger Area

Akpuola gi nwanne? Okoroawusa has delivered over 100 statues in just 100days. Okoroawusa is working.

LasGidiOwner:


Akpuola gi nwanne? Okoroawusa has delivered over 100 statues in just 100days. Okoroawusa is working.

We need Zik statue in Lagos ASAP

imhotep:

We need Zik statue in Lagos ASAP

Dee Okoroawusa akpuolam. Okoroawusa is working.

Malaysia Market Obowo built by Okorocha.

Ongoing rebuilding of Eke Mgbidi market

Abagworo:
Jacob Zuma road and Ochiedike road New Owerri built by Okorocha.

that's owerri version of ikoyi and lekki lagos

ChimaAdeoye:


Owerri is truly getting more beautiful and decent by the day.

No matter what our political differences, nobody can deny Rochas has a vision and knows how to create a decent city.

His only remaining task is to make SMICA begin to get at least one international flight. Then he would have set the stage for economic take off of Imo state.

I think posterity will be kind to Rochas. He definitely achieved more than all his predecessors except Dee Sam Mbakwe.

Is a state governor who builds up only one city in his state to be a million years ahead of the state not either daft or fraudulent?
It's all fraud: use a tiny fraction of what should provide for development of 27 lgas to build fancy things in the state capital, where is the money to have been used in providing infrastructures for the rest of the 26 lgas?

Less than 10% of Imo population live in Owerri. The once developing towns of Orlu Oguta, and Okigwe are rotting, shrinking; worse, development projects established by former governors in Orlu are either destroyed or left to rot by Okorocha.


It's like a president of Nigeria devoting to building Abuja to become a first class city, while Owerri, Lagos, Ibadan, Kano, etc cities in Nigeria remain stagnant or deteriorate.
That's what is going on in Imo state under Okorocha whose policy amounts to empowering Owerri economically but impoverishing close to 90% of Imo state in Orlu and Okigwe senatorial districts - another form of Apartheid policy.

Over 200billion in just debt within 4yrs. I am scratching the ground to see where these monies entered in Imo state. This 200billion doesn't include the federal allocation and poor IGR in the state.

Are we cursed or is Imo state cursed?

Abagworo:
Jacob Zuma road and Ochiedike road New Owerri built by Okorocha.

that's owerri version of ikoyi and lekki lagos, owerri needs just 20 high rise buildings of at least ten floors the view will be scintillating

ChimaAdeoye:


The place does not look spectacular yet, but it could if effort is put into proper finishing.

Rochas should make the place amazing and world class by beautifying it with trees and flowers.

Projects in SE often look substandard and shabby mainly due to poor finishing leaving the bare red earth exposed without trees and flowers to beautify the place.

See pictures below on how Rochas can give the place a proper finishing with flowers and trees to make it "spectacular" if he wants to.

Amazing indeed.

For EVEN DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA'S SPACE, the country was divided into states, further divided into senatorial zones, local government areas and wards.


Local government areas get their allocations from the federal government to carry out development projects they can.

In Imo state, crooks are okay with having a state governor collect the local government allocations to build in the state capital, scratch here and there in a few local government areas, and keep the local government areas in most pitiable sordid state.

A trip today to the local government areas of Imo state outside Owerri Municipal must show dilapidation and stagnant infrastructures built by former Imo state governors.


The crooks' only answer to the ongoing fraud is: "because Owerri is State Capital." The people from the state capital are okay with the arrangement. No fuss from outside Owerri.

Once Owerri is provided by Okorocha govt with its fancy development infrastructures, the crooks go to the roof tops and crow: Imo state is becoming a giant city, they put the name Imo state, in the place of Owerri.

It's a most organized fraud.

discusant:


Amazing indeed.

For EVEN DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA'S SPACE, the country was divided into states, further divided into senatorial zones, local government areas and wards.


Local government areas get their allocations from the federal government to carry out development projects they can.

In Imo state, crooks are okay with having a state governor collect the local government allocations to build in the state capital, scratch here and there in a few local government areas, and keep the local government areas in most pitiable sordid state.

A trip today to the local government areas of Imo state outside Owerri Municipal must show dilapidation and stagnant infrastructures built by former Imo state governors.


The crooks' only answer to the ongoing fraud is: "because Owerri is State Capital." The people from the state capital are okay with the arrangement. No fuss from outside Owerri.

Once Owerri is provided by Okorocha govt with its fancy development infrastructures, the crooks go to the roof tops and crow: Imo state is becoming a giant city, they put the name Imo state, in the place of Owerri.

It's a most organized fraud.

Name any Governor that built up to 20 schools. Okorocha has rebuilt more than 400. He has built up to 20 markets in rural areas including the Mgbidi and Obowo I just posted on this page. What about rural roads and hospitals?

On a more serious note the biggest market in Imo is now at Egbeada Ubomiri in Mbaitoli LGA and a dual carriage expressway constructed from Owerri to Nwaorieubi. The 2nd largest market is now at Naze/Nekede while the mechanic village is now in Avu/Ohaji. Those moves including demolition of markets in Owerri is to move development to those places instead of everything being in Owerri.

Abagworo:


Name any Governor that built up to 20 schools. Okorocha has rebuilt more than 400. He has built up to 20 markets in rural areas including the Mgbidi and Obowo I just posted on this page. What about rural roads and hospitals?

Continue to deceive them my afonja bross

The city planning of owerri, enugu, onitsha and Aba did not factor in the design of an intra , inter city railways , please this design flaw ought to be corrected before the eastern cities become rigid like some cities elsewhere . i also noticed that the residences are very lovely but the markets are built and designed badly

kettykin:
The city planning of owerri, enugu, onitsha and Aba did not factor in the design of an intra , inter city railways , please this design flaw ought to be corrected before the eastern cities become rigid like some cities elsewhere . i also noticed that the residences are very lovely but the markets are built and designed badly

Owerri has railway masterplan. Anybody who owns a property in Owerri that has gone for verification with ministry of works will know the rail lines and those who built on it will have their properties demolushed without compensation in future. Okorocha's successor will implement the rail plan.

sanctity454:


Abagworo:
Jacob Zuma road and Ochiedike road New Owerri built by Okorocha.


that's owerri version of ikoyi and lekki lagos, owerri needs just 20 high rise buildings of at least ten floors the view will be scintillating

Great job, Abagworo! What happened to the centinary towers Owelle once proposed? Has he abandoned the project?

SoNature:


Great job, Abagworo! What happened to the centinary towers Owelle once proposed? Has he abandoned the project?

A town without running water is not worth the name: City.

Owelle shall build you a Centenary Tower in Owerri which has no common pipe borne water.

Soon you shall request that Owelle builds Underground Metro Transport System in Owerri that has no common running water. Private boreholes do not go for water supply in a true city.

Owelle has built flyovers which Owerri drummed for years, as Owerri erroneously believes that flyover makes a town be counted as having arrived in the league of cities.

As you make all these requests for useless projects in Owerri, rest of Imo state outside Owerri have no common roads to move commerce.

Owerri profits from a governor obsessed with the term: state capital; a governor who now sees state capital as a place to use the state's capital development funds to develop - far ahead of rest of the state. Profiteering through ignorance.

There is no moral or constitutional provision anywhere that a state capital must be developed by government more than any other city in a state. State capital is just the seat of government of the day in a state.

Adannaify:

@the bolded, we can see the innoson buses as posted by abagoro

Those are fictitious random internet pictures, let him show us the Innoson Buses, loaded with passengers in a location in the Owerri Town, without that, it is all Political propaganda, which himself is the Anchor man

cool318:


Those are fictitious random internet pictures, let him show us the Innoson Buses, loaded with passengers in a location in the Owerri Town, without that, it is all Political propaganda, which himself is the Anchor man

Rochas and indeed an average Igbo person has a penchant not to patronize their own and run to Kaduna to buy PAN rather than buy INNOSON that is well adapted to our rugged environment and offer complete servicing and parts for many years after the purchase.

Having said that, i give Rochas MAXIMUM credit for his efforts at developing Owerri. If Other SE governors developed a major city in their state by opening up many well planned estates to foster planned development. Then SE cities would soo begin to attract foreigners who would invest and live comfortably in the SE with all the amenities of a planned city available in living in Abuja.

Rochas has a point to make at least ONE destination in Imo state of the standard seen elsewhere in Abuja. He MUST make sure Owerri International cargo airport attracts a foreign airline. Preferably Air France can combine it's Malabo- Paris flight to become, Paris-Owerri-Malabo. Or South African airline can combine it's Darkar flight as Jo'Burg-Owerri-Darkar-Washington DC.

In time, Owerri will be among the Eastern cities and indeed frontline Nigerian city to attract major foreign investment as their base in Nigeria.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUjWuxA1l6U



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVPBYZxQx38

Rochas should please leave these poor people alone.

There is soooooo much hardship, unemployment and hunger under this regime.

Please these people that are struggling with Keke to eke out a living free of crime should be supported by government and not bringing senseless ideas to make life unbearable for them. If they react and start burning things, then you call them unlawful.

They should ban them from major roads with high speed limit so they don't slow down traffic or get killed, but they should be allowed to ply minor streets and take poor people from point A to point B.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq460FrlToU

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ChimaAdeoye:


The place does not look spectacular yet, but it could if effort is put into proper finishing.

Rochas should make the place amazing and world class by beautifying it with trees and flowers.

Projects in SE often look substandard and shabby mainly due to poor finishing leaving the bare red earth exposed without trees and flowers to beautify the place.

See pictures below on how Rochas can give the place a proper finishing with flowers and trees to make it "spectacular" if he wants to.

Sometimes i lose hope on SE projects because of typical poor finishing. They consider landscaping an unnecessary detail. Thus, their projects always come out appearing substandard simply for lack of trees and flowers to finish up the project properly.

Rochas built an International trade and Tourism center which could have been an Iconic building for Owerri resembling the Abuja international Conference center if he simply did proper landscaping with palm trees and grass! Typically, he didn't. So the potentially iconic building is rated as one of those village structures because it's beauty was never polished.

Imagine if an ugly structure like Le Meridien Uyo was made iconic through proper landscaping with trees. It will take a long time to get Governors who know that landscaping is actually the difference between shoddy look of Nigerian cities and the polished look of cities in Europe, South Africa or Asia.

Cjrane2:


Sometimes i lose hope on SE projects because of typical poor finishing. They consider landscaping an unnecessary detail. Thus, their projects always come out appearing substandard simply for lack of trees and flowers to finish up the project properly.

Rochas built an International trade and Tourism center which could have been an Iconic building for Owerri resembling the Abuja international Conference center if he simply did proper landscaping with palm trees and grass! Typically, he didn't. So the potentially iconic building is rated as one of those village structures because it's beauty was never polished.

Imagine if an ugly structure like Le Meridien Uyo was made iconic through proper landscaping with trees. It will take a long time to get Governors who know that landscaping is actually the difference between shoddy look of Nigerian cities and the polished look of cities in Europe, South Africa or Asia.

Have you been to Owerri before? Just try pay a visit 1st before writing based on false info you are fed. That ITIC is well grassed but the trees are not grown yet. Even the tunnels are well grassed with ornamental trees though these shots were taken earlier. You need to simply pay a visit and see things for yourself.

Abagworo:


Have you been to Owerri before? Just try pay a visit 1st before writing based on false info you are fed. That ITIC is well grassed but the trees are not grown yet. Even the tunnels are well grassed with ornamental trees though these shots were taken earlier. You need to simply pay a visit and see things for yourself.

Bia Abagworo biko gbadokwa ya dia!

I am talking about proper landscaping with palm trees, flowers and other aesthetic trees and you are showing me natural weed growing on its own in the roundabout? If that were your house, would you accept that as landscaping? Even street roundabout landscaping in Uyo is better than the thing being posted for a site which is supposed to be iconic in Owerri?

Didn't you see the palm trees in Le Meridien that i posted? Mind kwa yasef dia.

Cjrane2:


Bia Abagworo biko gbadokwa ya dia!

I am talking about proper landscaping with palm trees, flowers and other aesthetic trees and you are showing me natural weed growing on its own in the roundabout? If that were your house, would you accept that as landscaping? Even street roundabout landscaping in Uyo is better than the thing being posted for a site which is supposed to be iconic in Owerri?

Didn't you see the palm trees in Le Meridien that i posted? Mind kwa yasef dia.

I understand you just want to seek fault in Owerri. Looking at that Uyo picture can't you see the road is dirty and there is zero trees but yet you try to compare it with Owerri. Pay a visit to Owerri and stop relying on photos.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaMcNivHasI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5ayIad7gKc

OreMI22:




Having said that, i give Rochas MAXIMUM credit for his efforts at developing Owerri. If Other SE governors developed a major city in their state by opening up many well planned estates to foster planned development. Then SE cities would soo begin to attract foreigners who would invest and live comfortably in the SE with all the amenities of a planned city available in living in Abuja.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUjWuxA1l6U



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVPBYZxQx38

Your talk about Housing Estate and City development.

A massive Housing Estate was completed by former governor of Imo state, Udenwa in Orlu to house staff of the nearby Imo State University Teaching Hospital, Orlu.

What happened thereafter?

A most parochial group in Imo state which does not consider worthy any development project in Imo state established outside Owerri, ensured that both the Housing estate and the Teaching Hospital at Orlu are not worthy to flourish. But only a FOOL would refuse to accept the fact that even if a hospital is located in a cave, so long the hospital is well managed by its proprietor, patients must troop to the hospital from anywhere in the world in search for cure.


The University Teaching Hospital boomed at Orlu, progressed and was at one time officially classified as one of the first ten best teaching hospitals in Nigeria.

Then enter Ohakim Ikedi as governor of Imo state.
The most parochial group instigated Ohakim to frustrate the Teaching Hospital at Orlu so that it shall become dysfunctional, to enable government to have reason to declare it non-viable in Orlu, and relocate the hospital to STATE CAPITAL.



Ohakim started to deny the Teaching Hospital the required attention and funds. At one budget approval session of Imo State House of Assembly, there was little or no provision by Ohakim executive arm of government for the Teaching Hospital. Then Speaker of the House, Goodluck Opiah, insisted that until Ohakim executive provided funds for the hospital, the budget could not be approved.

Ohakim even opened a mini teaching hospital in his senatorial district then.

Enter Rochas Okorocha as governor of Imo state. Okorocha resuscitated the then crumbling teaching hospital, provided for accreditation of expired accreditation, made the delayed medical students graduate.

The hospital started again to boom and became an income-generating hospital to the government.


But the dirty campaign by the most parochial group who sees that every development project in Imo state must be in Owerri State capital, did not stop.

Shortly after, Okorocha threw the kite that Imo State University, Owerri, would be relocated from Owerri to Ideato. Owerri petitioned nearly God to stop the purported move to remove Imo state University from Owerri.
In 2015, Owerri politician, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, told visiting President Jonathan on re-election campaign in Imo state, that Imo State shall vote Jonathan if Jonathan converted the Federal Medical Center, Owerri, to a University Teaching Hospital, as well as convert the Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education to a full University. Jonathan went back to Abuja and announced the conversion of Alvan to a full university, but did not grant the other request to convert FMC Owerri to a Teaching Hospital, perhaps, he understood that there was already a University Teaching Hospital in Imo state that was yet to be fully harnessed.

Alas, Okorocha announced that he was no longer relocating Imo State University Owerri to his home local government area of Ideato South. Instead, he started to build another complex for a now Eastern Palm University in Ideato which he said is jointly owned by a Private Investor and Imo state government - PPI. Okorocha told the National Universities Commission last year that "Eastern Palm University is my 12 years dream come true."

A plan was hatched when Eastern Palm university started to be built. Okorocha then started to frustrate Imo state University Teaching Hospital, Orlu, in order to make Owerri look the other way if the University Teaching Hospital is relocated from Orlu to Owerri, when Okorocha shall tell Imo state that the remaining shares of Imo state government in Eastern Palm University has been sold to a private organization - Rochas Foundation, undoubtedly.

Since the plan was hatched in 2012,, Okorocha refused to repair the 1km only road leading to the Teaching Hospital in Orlu, despite numerous pleas by students and stake holders; at some points, the students protested openly in Orlu and Owerri for the road to be resurfaced, but to no avail. They reminded Okorocha his earlier promise to dualize the road to the Teaching Hospital.

The government of Okorocha then started to owe arrears of salary to doctors and nurses at the Teaching Hospital to frustrate them to leave the hospital.

The government refused to provide accreditation of some medical courses.

Agents of the governor at the hospital denied supply of diesel to hospital Lister generating sets whenever public power supply went off.
As the years of Okorocha government rolled by, only the most impoverished would contemplate visiting the Imo State University Teaching Hospital for cure. Lots of expensive but yet to be mounted medical equipment at the Teaching Hospital were abandoned by Okorocha government to rot away.

Non-Viable at Orlu forced upon the Teaching Hospital.
In 2016, Okorocha told local Chiefs from Orlu area under his government's payroll that Imo State University Teaching Hospital was not viable in Orlu, and had to be relocated to Owerri. The local Chiefs, of course, could not argue with their pay master.


Late October 2016, Okorocha government set up a committee headed by the Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Acho Ihim, to examine, according to him, "how Imo State University Teaching Hospital can be relocated from Orlu to Owerri to be more useful to our people."

Unfolding realities since the committee are that if Okorocha goes ahead with his self-centred intention to render the State University Teaching Hospital Orlu dysfunctional, his Eastern Palm University is most likely to be rendered dysfunctional.

discusant:


Enter Rochas Okorocha as governor of Imo state. Okorocha resuscitated the then crumbling teaching hospital, provided for accreditation of expired accreditation, made the delayed medical students graduate.

Thanks for giving honor to whom honor is due. Records show that it was under Okorocha in 2012 that Imsuth got its first full accreditation which they lost in 2015 due to politics. Hopefully the full accreditation will return this 2018 to the credit of same man that did it 1st.

www.africanexaminer.com/imo0911/

After 15 years, Imo State University Graduates 55 Doctors
Posted by African Examinereducation, Ignatius Okpara,

ImoThursday, September 12th, 2013


By Ignatius Okpara
At last, the Imo State University Teaching Hospital Orlu, has finally graduated 55 of its fifth set of medical doctors, fifteen years after.
African Examiner gathered that the fresh medical graduands had spent not less than 15 years at the medical institution due to the period of non-accreditation of the medical programme as well as strikes.
At the oath-taking ceremony yesterday, a member of the Federal House of Representatives, Jerry Alagbaso, who chaired the event, had challenged the new medical doctors to be good ambassadors of their alma-mater and uphold the ethics of the profession.
The law maker admonished them to be religious in discharging their professional obligations saying “bear in mind that you have the supreme task of saving lives first before any other thing.”