Who Owns Eastern Palm University, Ogboko,
In Ideato South LGA?

Now The Real Deal; the major reason behind the present succession turmoil in Imo APC/Douglas House.

GOVERNMENT OF IMO STATE
PRESS RELEASE
SUBJECT: IMO STATE GOVERNMENT HAS PAID N2.111BILLION TO LAND OWNERS – GOVERNOR ROCHAS OKOROCHA
-ADDS THAT N233MILLION HAS ALSO BEEN EARMARKED FOR FURTHER PAYMENTS
Governor Rochas Okorocha has disclosed that his administration has paid N2.111billion (Two Billion, One Hundred and Eleven Million Naira) as compensations to owners of lands acquired by the administration for developmental purposes.

The governor who made the disclosure while presenting the 2019 Budget of N276b tagged “Budget of Consolidation and Economic Stability” at the Imo State House of Assembly on Thursday, December 13, 2018 said, the money was paid to owners of lands acquired at Irete, Orji, Avu, New Arugo, among others, adding that the compensations included traditional rites and compensatory plots.

According to the governor, N233.3million has also been set aside for the payment of other land owners for various land acquisitions in the State, stating that arrangement has also been completed for the establishment of an Industrial Park at Ohaji/Egbema as well as Industrial Estate at Ngor Okpala, assuring that all these Projects would be completed in 2019.

The governor further explained “within the period under review, the administration acquired 215 hectares of land at Ngor Okpala for the establishment of Air Force Base, acquired 50 hectares at Uborji Okuku in Owerri West Local Government for the establishment of a mega city and re-acquired 700 hectares from land owners of Avu, Nekede, Obinze and Ihiagwa for the development of Imo Centenary City along Port-Harcourt Road, Owerri.”
According to him, “Government has also re-acquired Federal site and services for the re-location of the Police Headquarters to Port-Harcourt Road and another land at Avu for the relocation of all the mechanics in the Capital City.
These projects have reached advanced stages”.
He continued, “Government has previously reacquired the following sites; Shell Camp Quarters, Old Orji Mechanic Village, Ubomiri Residential Housing Area, Nworie North and Arugo layout for various developmental purposes that will boost the State economy.
All these were to further assist the State Government implement the Rescue Mission’s Urban and Regional Development Policy, provide the necessary bite required to achieve the desired goal and restore the Owerri Master Plan vis-à-vis repositioning our Capital City for industrialization”.

The governor said that the cardinal policy of the administration is to protect lives and property of Imo Citizens such that Imo people can carry on their lawful activities without any form of fear. This administration has never taken the Security of Imo Citizens for granted. We have continued in our effort towards ensuring a peaceful and highly secured State by providing the needed support to the law enforcement agencies to ensure the Security of lives and properties”.

He continued “The Imo Security Network and Imo Community Watch in partnership with Federal Security Agencies have made the State uncomfortable for criminals and kidnappers, thereby reducing to the barest minimum, the incidence of criminality in the State. The government will therefore continue to put in place policies and strategies that will further strengthen the Security situation in the State for more efficient and effective governance”.

Sam Onwuemeodo
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor.

Owerri and Enugu are the two cities in Eastern Nigeria that is presentable

arinzeejikonye:
GOVERNMENT OF IMO STATE
PRESS RELEASE
SUBJECT: IMO STATE GOVERNMENT HAS PAID N2.111BILLION TO LAND OWNERS – GOVERNOR ROCHAS OKOROCHA
-ADDS THAT N233MILLION HAS ALSO BEEN EARMARKED FOR FURTHER PAYMENTS
Governor Rochas Okorocha has disclosed that his administration has paid N2.111billion (Two Billion, One Hundred and Eleven Million Naira) as compensations to owners of lands acquired by the administration for developmental purposes.

The governor who made the disclosure while presenting the 2019 Budget of N276b tagged “Budget of Consolidation and Economic Stability” at the Imo State House of Assembly on Thursday, December 13, 2018 said, the money was paid to owners of lands acquired at Irete, Orji, Avu, New Arugo, among others, adding that the compensations included traditional rites and compensatory plots.

According to the governor, N233.3million has also been set aside for the payment of other land owners for various land acquisitions in the State, stating that arrangement has also been completed for the establishment of an Industrial Park at Ohaji/Egbema as well as Industrial Estate at Ngor Okpala, assuring that all these Projects would be completed in 2019.

The governor further explained “within the period under review, the administration acquired 215 hectares of land at Ngor Okpala for the establishment of Air Force Base, acquired 50 hectares at Uborji Okuku in Owerri West Local Government for the establishment of a mega city and re-acquired 700 hectares from land owners of Avu, Nekede, Obinze and Ihiagwa for the development of Imo Centenary City along Port-Harcourt Road, Owerri.”
According to him, “Government has also re-acquired Federal site and services for the re-location of the Police Headquarters to Port-Harcourt Road and another land at Avu for the relocation of all the mechanics in the Capital City.
These projects have reached advanced stages”.
He continued, “Government has previously reacquired the following sites; Shell Camp Quarters, Old Orji Mechanic Village, Ubomiri Residential Housing Area, Nworie North and Arugo layout for various developmental purposes that will boost the State economy.
All these were to further assist the State Government implement the Rescue Mission’s Urban and Regional Development Policy, provide the necessary bite required to achieve the desired goal and restore the Owerri Master Plan vis-à-vis repositioning our Capital City for industrialization”.

The governor said that the cardinal policy of the administration is to protect lives and property of Imo Citizens such that Imo people can carry on their lawful activities without any form of fear. This administration has never taken the Security of Imo Citizens for granted. We have continued in our effort towards ensuring a peaceful and highly secured State by providing the needed support to the law enforcement agencies to ensure the Security of lives and properties”.

He continued “The Imo Security Network and Imo Community Watch in partnership with Federal Security Agencies have made the State uncomfortable for criminals and kidnappers, thereby reducing to the barest minimum, the incidence of criminality in the State. The government will therefore continue to put in place policies and strategies that will further strengthen the Security situation in the State for more efficient and effective governance”.

Sam Onwuemeodo
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor.

A state government's development policy statements, but all about State capital - "repositioning our capital city for industrialization."

Whoever doesn't smell insanity in all these must be most insensitive.


Another school of thought is: Okorocha is bribing Owerri with these so that Owerri shall not question how Okorocha built his private university, five star hotels, etc in his village, with roads that lead to these.

I think this area is the best place to own a property, poverty die oooo
Scenery view along the coastline

sanctity454:
I think this area is the best place to own a property, poverty die oooo
Scenery view along the coastline

Where's that in Owerri?

SoNature:


Where's that in Owerri?

Akachi road

SoNature:


Where's that in Owerri?

Was about to ask the same question! Where in Owerri looks that scenic...with a river running through the city like the Rhine or Thames? Unless it's Nworie river.

I'm thinking it could be a bit of Photoshopping going on!

sanctity454:

Akachi road

If that river actually exists as shown in that pic, then i'm furious with the present and past governors in the state who haven't been imaginative enough to capitalise on such a unique feature to boost the tourist potentials of Owerri!

They could have built a landmark bridge over the river, or had boat rides that could take you from one end of the city to the other for a small fee! Also, the banks of the river could be put to better use!

But at a time, our billionaire brothers aren't trying at all,why not form a consortium and build a mega resort in that location, if not for the owner of crystal lake resort in oguta, oguta lake could have been dead and gone.
Infact we only have billionaires on newspaper pages, they have contributed nothing to the physical development of our state, millionaire are even doing better.

Xander85:


Was about to ask the same question! Where in Owerri looks that scenic...with a river running through the city like the Rhine or Thames? Unless it's Nworie river.

I'm thinking it could be a bit of Photoshopping going on!

it's no photoshop, that river runs to and beyond futo. It's green in color because of the presence of microscopic algae. It adds its scenic beauty to owerri.

sanctity454:
But at a time, our billionaire brothers aren't trying at all,why not form a consortium and build a mega resort in that location, if not for the owner of crystal lake resort in oguta, oguta lake could have been dead and gone.
Infact we only have billionaires on newspaper pages, they have contributed nothing to the physical development of our state, millionaire are even doing better.

I've long come to accept that it would be difficult, if not impossible, for high networth individuals to pool their resources together to form a body of venture capitalist that could invest in capital intensive businesses in the south-east, or gift a world-class tourist landmark to the city, state or region!

The problem is that all of them would want to be the only one linked to the project....the head-honcho as it were! This would mean they don't have to 'suffer the indignity' of having to share the limelight with other billionaires; too many billionaires linked to one project or endowment could mean their name getting 'lost in the crowd' and them not receiving the prominence and adulation they think they deserve!

Like you suggested, just imagine a group of venture capitalists made up of Titans of industry like Prince Arthur Eze, OILSERVE, NESTOIL, BRITTANIA-U, INNOSON, IBETO, etc? All of them combined could quite comfortably raise up to $2 Billion over a 5 year period, to be invested in critical areas of the south-eastern economy that have hardly been touched!

This consortium of venture capitalists could focus on key thematic investment areas in the south-east that are crying out for investment: areas like tourism....by providing at least one 5-Star hotel in the east that can help attract weddings and other functions and conferences that otherwise would have been held in Lagos, Abuja or abroad....also the beautiful Oguta Lake is yet to get the proper world-class investment it deserves; transportation...by investing in already up and running airlines like Air-Peace, or investing in a inter or intra city rail network; embedded power supply....for industrial zones or keying into already existing ones like GEOMETRIC; education....by supporting at least one or two universities per state, and providing scholarships to outstanding individuals; etc-etc-etc!

We could still achieve a lot if we pool our resources together to make a much bigger impact, instead of operating solo either on an individual or state basis!

Xander85:


I've long come to accept that it would be difficult, if not impossible, for high networth individuals to pool their resources together to form a body of venture capitalist that could invest in capital intensive businesses in the south-east, or gift a world-class tourist landmark to the city, state or region!

The problem is that all of them would want to be the only one linked to the project....the head-honcho as it were! This would mean they don't have to 'suffer the indignity' of having to share the limelight with other billionaires; too many billionaires linked to one project or endowment could mean their name getting 'lost in the crowd' and them not receiving the prominence and adulation they think they deserve!

Like you suggested, just imagine a group of venture capitalists made up of Titans of industry like Prince Arthur Eze, OILSERVE, NESTOIL, BRITTANIA-U, INNOSON, IBETO, etc? All of them combined could quite comfortably raise up to $2 Billion over a 5 year period, to be invested in critical areas of the south-eastern economy that have hardly been touched!

This consortium of venture capitalists could focus on key thematic investment areas in the south-east that are crying out for investment: areas like tourism....by providing at least one 5-Star hotel in the east that can help attract weddings and other functions and conferences that otherwise would have been held in Lagos, Abuja or abroad....also the beautiful Oguta Lake is yet to get the proper world-class investment it deserves; transportation...by investing in already up and running airlines like Air-Peace, or investing in a inter or intra city rail network; embedded power supply....for industrial zones or keying into already existing ones like GEOMETRIC; education....by supporting at least one or two universities per state, and providing scholarships to outstanding individuals; etc-etc-etc!

We could still achieve a lot if we pool our resources together to make a much bigger impact, instead of operating solo either on an individual or state basis!

Even them not forming consortium, how many of have concrete investment not mansion and unnecessary NGOs, is not in this state that a governorship aspirant that championed industrialization is now proudly building a refinery in lagos.
Hate him or love him thats why a good number of imolite still support Rochas , yes he stole but he invested where he stole from.

sanctity454:

Even them not forming consortium, how many of have concrete investment not mansion and unnecessary NGOs, is not in this state that a governorship aspirant that championed industrialization is now proudly building a refinery in lagos.
Hate him or love him thats why a good number of imolite still support Rochas , yes he stole but he invested where he stole from.

I guess you're talking of Capt Iheanacho. I still can't fathom why he chose Lagos over his state that's an oil and gas producing state! As we speak, Buhari (together with his Nigerien brother) is planning to build a $2 Billion refinery in Katsina...together with a rail line linking his village of Daura to Niger! No mention is made of the viability of said projects or the propriety of the chosen locations; other considerations trump the little matter of viability and location when it comes to citing projects in the north. But come down to Imo, and you see Capt Iheanacho choosing Lagos over his Imo state for reasons best known to him!

You mentioned Okorocha having his investments in Imo. Could you mention one or two of them? I only know of that nice estate his wife built in Owerri....nothing else!

Xander85:


I guess you're talking of Capt Iheanacho. I still can't fathom why he chose Lagos over his state that's an oil and gas producing state! As we speak, Buhari (together with his Nigerien brother) is planning to build a $2 Billion refinery in Katsina...together with a rail line linking his village of Daura to Niger! No mention is made of the viability of said projects or the propriety of the chosen locations; other considerations trump the little matter of viability and location when it comes to citing projects in the north. But come down to Imo, and you see Capt Iheanacho choosing Lagos over his Imo state for reasons best known to him!

You mentioned Okorocha having his investments in Imo. Could you mention one or two of them? I only know of that nice estate his wife built in Owerri....nothing else!

Rochas established a large scale farm called rochasfarms opposite the shell proposed gas plant at Assa in ohaji egbema,nworie resort, major stakeholder in protea hotel owerri more structures are been erected there now,eastern palm university, rochas foundation in orji former ibc premises,lamonde hotels, shares in rytegate company, roche company,reasonable number estates, his wife royal palm hotel and apartments,furniture factory, All-IN mall, owerri muncipal plaza,woddi center, etc,uche nwosu Westbrook hotel his wife house of freeda two location, easthigh school reach fm, even planning to open a TV station, Uzoma owns Hive, with other numerous plaza and estates

sanctity454:

Rochas established a large scale farm called rochasfarms opposite the shell proposed gas plant at Assa in ohaji egbema,nworie resort, major stakeholder in protea hotel owerri more structures are been erected there now,eastern palm university, rochas foundation in orji former ibc premises,lamonde hotels, shares in rytegate company, roche company,reasonable number estates, his wife royal palm hotel and apartments,furniture factory, All-IN mall, owerri muncipal plaza,woddi center, etc,uche nwosu Westbrook hotel his wife house of freeda two location, easthigh school reach fm, even planning to open a TV station, Uzoma owns Hive, with other numerous plaza and estates

Chai! Just one family!

sanctity454:

Rochas established a large scale farm called rochasfarms opposite the shell proposed gas plant at Assa in ohaji egbema,nworie resort, major stakeholder in protea hotel owerri more structures are been erected there now,eastern palm university, rochas foundation in orji former ibc premises,lamonde hotels, shares in rytegate company, roche company,reasonable number estates, his wife royal palm hotel and apartments,furniture factory, All-IN mall, owerri muncipal plaza,woddi center, etc,uche nwosu Westbrook hotel his wife house of freeda two location, easthigh school reach fm, even planning to open a TV station, Uzoma owns Hive, with other numerous plaza and estates

Na wa oh Rochas is too greedy

Vicboi1:



Na wa oh Rochas is too greedy

Let's be fair here
Much as I won't say that Rochas hasn't looted Imo State money, he was already stinking rich before he became governor

SoNature:


Let's be fair here
Much as I won't say that Rochas hasn't looted Imo State money, he was already stinking rich before he became governor

If he was so rich as you said let me ask you a question what was his source of wealth?

Vicboi1:


If he was so rich as you said let me ask you a question what was his source of wealth?

Abacha's loot

Stumbled on this on the net and thought it good to share it here. It says a lot about the attitude of igbos and why we are where we are today.



Who are Owerri people?

Written by  Ozodi Osuji Ph.D

Generally, I am quiet and very slow to anger. However, when I am angry I will come after you and do whatever I have to do to take you down. And your death would mean nothing to me; what matters to me is doing what is right.
For years now, I quietly tolerated Igbo idiots call me every kind of put down name their limited vocabularies could muster.

Why do they do it? It is because I insist on speaking my mind, stating the truth as I see it (what is the truth, do you know, truth is a social construct!).

Apparently, I must not seek and speak the truth but must conform to whatever the generality of Igbos say is the truth (which, invariably, is spurious rendition of the unknown truth).

Collins Ezebuihe, yesterday, wished me death. The subject at hand was talk on what town should be the capital of their proposed Alaigbo Republic. Apparently, I expressed a wish that is contrary to his wish and for that he wants me to die. So, if one does not agree with these people one must die! They must get their childish wishes gratified at all times (this is part of the root of the Igbo problem of Nigeria).

Ojukwu did the same thing; the man arrested and detained those Igbos who opposed his ill thought out Biafra or presented a different way to prosecute the war; folks like Jaja Wachukwu, Nigeria's first republic minister of external affairs, spent the war years in detention camp. Apparently, Igbos have a strong dictatorial streak in them; it is either their way or the highway.

From my perspective, Collins has stepped outside the line of permitted social discourse and attacked me personally. He is no longer a human being; my mind has defined him as a non-human being and wants to destroy him.

However, instead of coming after him, as everything in me wants to do, I will take this opportunity to teach him a thing or two about Owerri people.  These fools have no knowledge of Igbo history but come to the Internet to talk as if they are all experts on everything Igbo.

Grandstanding as experts on everything Igbo does not make one an expert on Igbo.  Collins said that he is more Owerri than I am. I do not know why he found it necessary to say that, why it matters one way or the other that he is more Owerri than I am.

Here is the deal. Until the twentieth century there was no such thing as Owerri people. Igbos in what is now called Owerri area lived in villages and towns. Their identification did not exceed their town. However, they speak the same Igbo dialect, now called Owerri.

These towns are Egbu, Emekeuku, Urata, Nnaze, Emii, Iheagwa, Ohaji, Nnekede, Obube, Imerienwe, Umuewere, Umukabi, Mbutu Okahia, Ntu, Umuowa, Ihite, Umuohiagu, Obiangwu, Norie, Okpala, Umuneke and many others. Each of these people went by their town's name.

There was a market where slaves were sold. The market was nicknamed owere, "it has taken". It denoted that those sold there were taken and are now lost to the people. They were thereafter marched to Igwe Ocha (where white slave buyers are; Port Harcourt) and Bonny and sold to the Portuguese or Spanish, Dutch, French, English etc.

In the late 1800s the British, through its Royal Niger Company, began to operate in the lower Niger area, all the way from the Niger delta to interior Igbo areas. They had outposts at Onitsha, Asaba and Lokoja.  Mission schools established themselves at a little town of a handful of people called Onitsha in 1851 (the first Igbos were exposed to Western education at Onitsha and Onitsha folk came to dominate Igbos and began fancying themselves superior to other Igbos; they called Igbos Ndigbo in a derogatory manner and called themselves Bini people...why Igbos believe that to be attached to non-Igbos make them superior is a subject for study; it is probably due to their apparent sense of inferiority covered up with false sense of superiority; Ikwerri people who are a mix of Igbos and Ijaw now see themselves as non-Igbos and imagine themselves better than other Igbos).

By 1900 the British began taking over the activities of the Royal Niger Company. Frederick Lugard, who had hitherto worked for the Royal Niger Company, was given the responsibility of administering the ensuing two protectorates of what came to be called Nigeria (his girlfriend, Flora Shaw came up with the name of Nigeria, Niger area;  Niger/Nigra/Negro is derived from Spanish, meaning black; thus Nigeria means black people's area, derogatively, nigger area; eventually, the southern and northern protectorates were amalgamated as one Nigeria in 1914 and Lugard made its first Governor general).

Lugard heard that slavery was still going on inside Alaigbo. Apparently, he believed that Aro folks were the kingpins of slavery. He resolved to march to Arochukwu and destroy the town's long juju, and other oracles such as the one at Umunoha.

In 1902 Lugard and his West African Frontier Army marched on Arochukwu and thereafter marched on other Igbo villages (he called what he was doing the pacification of the lower Niger savages; that is, he saw Igbos as savages; see his book, The Dual Mandate). Having destroyed Arochukwu he came to what is now called the Owerri area. Apparently, he had heard about the Owere slave market and brought his troops to camp there to prevent further selling of slaves. This was around 1904.

He spelled owere as Owerri and called the people in the surrounding area Owerri people. This was the origin of the term owerri people.  Before Lugard there was no such thing as Owerri people.

Lugard created his Owerri province which included the people that spoke Owerri dialect of Igbo and other areas, such as Port Harcourt, Okigwe, Orlu, Aba and Umuahia and so on.

Owerri at one time was considered a district in Owerri province; later a county and local authority area.  Eventually the area was divided into what are now called Owerri proper and Ngor Okpala (the two people speak the same Owerri dialect).

My town is Umuohiagu and it is in Ngo Okpala local government area. The people identify as Owerri people (by the way, Owerri Airport is in my village; my people donated the land on which the airport is built...guess who is working there...Igbos from other areas of Alaigbo...and this is making my people as angry as hell!).

The point is that some Igbos identify as Owerri and call themselves Owerri people even though they are not part of the township of Owerri.

Now, if a people identify with a name who the hell are you to tell them that they are wrong, as the emotionally underdeveloped Collins told me (and why he told me that I do not know since I personally identify with all black Africa)!

What is wrong with Igbos, anyway; why are they always telling other people who they are and what to do! If they are not telling Hausas and Yorubas who they are and how to live their lives they are telling other Igbos who they are and how to live their lives.

Why can't these people simply accept people as they present themselves instead of having the arrogance of trying to define other people?

Talking about identification with larger entities, why must Igbos only identify with their little towns and not with larger social aggregations?

Why can't all the people in what is now called Owerri south and north and Ngor Okpala, since they speak the same dialect, call themselves whatever they want without some idiot from Mbieri or any other part of Igbo land feeling like he knows what is better identification for them?

Are Igbos really born idiotic?  Why are they always making enemies for themselves? Why must they always pinch sleeping dogs and make them come bite them, why not leave sleeping dogs lay? God, Igbos seem born idiotic. Collins and his fellow Biafra Internet warriors have made it their life's vocation to insult me in every which they can.

Does it not occur to these imbeciles that they are alienating me? Is it okay to alienate a person in a position to obstruct your goals? Don't these fools understand that one determined man can destroy any enterprise they embark on? If an articulate man opposes the Biafra fantasy and write about it I doubt that its proponents would easily actualize it. Rational persons court the friendship of those in a position to destroy their missions but mentally retarded folks like Collins do everything in their power to generate opposition to their goals.

I do not want these fools telling me who I am supposed to be.  Why can't they leave me to define me instead of trying to define me for me!

Ironically, when you look at these folks trying to define you for you, you see mentally and emotionally underdeveloped folks. And yet they have the audacity to tell you who you are! These people's arrogance is the arrogance of the stupid!

We have Igbos from Anambra abuse the fact that they were the first Igbos given Western education to write rubbish to the effect that they are the fountain of Igbos! Imagine folks who are mostly a mixture with non-Igbos telling pure Igbos that they are their root!

They write fictions about how Igbos began at what they call Nri. They put together a fairy tale, a hagiography called Nri and its religious leadership of Igbos.

These idiots want to tell me, a man from Umuamadioha, the children of Amadioha, a people who have led the people spiritually for hundreds of years that they are now sub-servient to them just because some mixed pseudo Igbo from Anambra (a people that are mixtures of Igbos and Bini people) are now my spiritual leader. This is outrageous and grotesque.

If you must talk about Igbo spirituality you had better listen to those Igbos who are from Igbo priestly families and who know a thing or two about spirituality instead of listening to overfed, fat Anambra know nothings pontificating on Igbo spirituality.

Some of this idiot Igbos even interpret the name Osuji to mean that one is an osu, slave. Can you imagine that outrage! And these are people who claim to be experts on everything Igbos! They know little or nothing about Igbo culture.

Listen, in the Owerri area usually a man who is very rich, as measured by ownership of land and yams, a Diala, a freeborn, may feel happy that the gods treated him well and call one of his sons Osuiji or Njoku (both names mean the same thing), and that son would lead Ahanjoku ceremonies (lead religious sacrifices to the god of yam, Ji).

God, many Igbos are truly dense; their density is now beginning to annoy me. My tolerance level has reached its limits; I feel like punishing some Igbo idiots that keep messing things up for all Igbos.

Discussion

Igbos are so parochial that when their so-called scholars say that they are writing Igbo history invariably they write about their town. Every Igbo wants us to know about his town's history. Talking about Igbo wide history is not their cup of tea.

Can you imagine an English man who instead of writing the history of England writes about the Celts, Romans, Angels, Saxons, Norman-French men and Vikings  that settled in his town and does not write about all of England? Igbos are self-centered, narcissistic and deluded; they believe that the world is centered in their town, village and family; they have not developed identification with larger social aggregations.

Incidentally, that is why they ought to be in Nigeria, for that enables them to develop Igbo wide identification and stop identifying mostly with their towns and trying to make their silly towns superior to other Igbo towns and Igbos superior to Nigerians; Nigeria ought to stay together but reconfigured into twenty states where each state is a large tribe, with smaller tribes grouped into states.

Human beings are creatures that bear grievances and seek vengeance for what is done to them in the past. People are motivated by anger and revenge; forgiveness is learned and does not come easy to people. When you annoy people they bear grudges against you for life; they will put obstacles on your path and make sure that they frustrate you and make sure that you fail. They may hide their anger at you but smile at you and make you think that they like you.

Collins and his Biafra paper tigers keep irritating Nigerians and anybody they believe is opposed to their fantasy republic. They do not even ask folks from the south of Nigeria but simply assume that those people do not have a right to self-determination. Imagine the arrogance that assumes that Igbos have the right to tell Ijaw and Efik people what country they ought to be in!

Listen, if you anger people they will come after you. So, why do Igbos always do what annoys people knowing that those would not forgive them; why make the entire world your enemy?

Do Igbos have a death wish and want all people to be after them? Perhaps, this is a paranoid thing; the paranoid provokes people to persecute him and he is persecuted and he complains that he is persecuted.

Why don't Igbos, for once, try love and respect for people. Love people and they will like you and do what helps you get what you want out of life.

Conclusion

I do not know why many Igbos feel that it is up to them to define other people for them, why they cannot leave folks to define themselves as they want to. I am supposing that it is due to their well-known narcissistic and delusional nature; they are grandiose beyond belief; even those of them who cannot read or write believe that they have the right to tell other people who they are.

Yesterday, an Igbo cretin called Collins Ezebuihe not only was wishing me death but was telling me where I am from and who I am. Just think about that, an idiot with literally nothing in his head telling me who I am and how I ought to behave.

Igbos ought to develop humility and understand that other people have minds and can define themselves as they want to, not as they tell them that they are.

I hope that the snippet of information given in this brief paper helps Igbo busy bodies to understand something about Owerri and enable them to stop talking nonsense when it comes to Owerri people.

Ozodiobi Osuji

November 21, 2015



http://chatafrik.com/articles/nigerian-affairs/who-are-owerri-people#.XBhLbLko80M

sanctity454:
I think this area is the best place to own a property, poverty die oooo
Scenery view along the coastline

Are these pictures real? Where is this in IMO state?

ararumeteam:


Ararume is coming to fix owerri and all of imo state.this was me in a bus early last month in owerri. get ur pvc ready.we shall prevail under our son Ararume

Which party is Ararume contesting under? It's looking like a done deal for Ihedioha though


Really been a while I went home, those yellow n black buses, are they the new public buses in IMO?

Xander85:


If that river actually exists as shown in that pic, then i'm furious with the present and past governors in the state who haven't been imaginative enough to capitalise on such a unique feature to boost the tourist potentials of Owerri!

They could have built a landmark bridge over the river, or had boat rides that could take you from one end of the city to the other for a small fee! Also, the banks of the river could be put to better use!

I might be wrong, but I don't think the river looks like its depicted in the picture

Xander85:


I've long come to accept that it would be difficult, if not impossible, for high networth individuals to pool their resources together to form a body of venture capitalist that could invest in capital intensive businesses in the south-east, or gift a world-class tourist landmark to the city, state or region!

The problem is that all of them would want to be the only one linked to the project....the head-honcho as it were! This would mean they don't have to 'suffer the indignity' of having to share the limelight with other billionaires; too many billionaires linked to one project or endowment could mean their name getting 'lost in the crowd' and them not receiving the prominence and adulation they think they deserve!

Like you suggested, just imagine a group of venture capitalists made up of Titans of industry like Prince Arthur Eze, OILSERVE, NESTOIL, BRITTANIA-U, INNOSON, IBETO, etc? All of them combined could quite comfortably raise up to $2 Billion over a 5 year period, to be invested in critical areas of the south-eastern economy that have hardly been touched!

This consortium of venture capitalists could focus on key thematic investment areas in the south-east that are crying out for investment: areas like tourism....by providing at least one 5-Star hotel in the east that can help attract weddings and other functions and conferences that otherwise would have been held in Lagos, Abuja or abroad....also the beautiful Oguta Lake is yet to get the proper world-class investment it deserves; transportation...by investing in already up and running airlines like Air-Peace, or investing in a inter or intra city rail network; embedded power supply....for industrial zones or keying into already existing ones like GEOMETRIC; education....by supporting at least one or two universities per state, and providing scholarships to outstanding individuals; etc-etc-etc!

We could still achieve a lot if we pool our resources together to make a much bigger impact, instead of operating solo either on an individual or state basis!

I don't think we should be looking at hotels again, there are already a lot littered in the east. In the area of transport, they'll be at a loss if the road still remain as bad as it is. In electricity generation, someone talked about how he was supplying about 20 hours light to a community in Enugu, I think, and they were paying him, only for NERC to come and frustrate him, after initially giving him license (its in the thread about your worst business venture, and how much you lost)

I think the governors should first come together and do something, then individuals will follow.... Nobody said IMO and Abia governors cannot work on that road leading from Owerri to Abia,that passes through Afor ogbe... Let then make it like the one from Onitsha to Owerri,then ask for reimbursement from the Federal government..

Then other states do the same... Look at the road from Owerri to Okigwe, can't it be expanded? Enugu state is even trying in opening new roads that leads to the capital from various areas, let other states emulate.

You mentioned intercity rail, I'm still wondering what stops them from putting such in place. If they complain its finances, then let them just come together and create a well tarred, wide enough road that'll cut through the five states, must be very wide.

#I apologise if my write up is too long... I just hope for the best for me and my people#

Wetheral road 8 lanes expansion taking shape

sanctity454:
Wetheral road 8 lanes expansion taking shape

Is it only wethral that is imostate each year the same road why don't you talk about nekede, orji, mcc road, world bank etc

Vicboi1:

Is it only wethral that is imostate each year the same road why don't you talk about nekede, orji, mcc road, world bank etc

Bro do i look like IMO state government spokesman, pls direct your query to appropriate quarters.
Thanks

Yampotatocarrot:


I might be wrong, but I don't think the river looks like its depicted in the picture

I've spotted it on google earth. Okorocha did well opening that area up for real estate development.

Abagworo:


I've spotted it on google earth. Okorocha did well opening that area up for real estate development.

Waoh, that's nice.

From the picture shown, its also nice to see that well planned houses r being built along the banks, this reduces the chances of shanties being built there and it turning to be a hide out for criminals.

I wish work would permit me to visit home, will have loved to visit these places. If the river extends to many LGAs n is wide enough, water transportation, through speedboats could be deployed, as is being done in Lagos

Yampotatocarrot:


Waoh, that's nice.

From the picture shown, its also nice to see that well planned houses r being built along the banks, this reduces the chances of shanties being built there and it turning to be a hide out for criminals.

I wish work would permit me to visit home, will have loved to visit these places. If the river extends to many LGAs n is wide enough, water transportation, through speedboats could be deployed, as is being done in Lagos

No that's Otamiri river and it extends to Atlantic ocean after merging with Imo river at Etche in Rivers State but it's very irregular as it is a stream in many areas and big river in others.