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Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Asshurbanipali: 4:51pm On Feb 12, 2019 |
Imo state people are lousy and have lost interest in their state, if not tell me why they should not question their govt why this substandard flyover was abandoned, despite massive debt hanging on Imo state. Owerri is a pure village. Imolites should wake up and vote out bad leaders like Okorocha. Abagworo come and explain this to us 1 Like
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Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Asshurbanipali: 4:53pm On Feb 12, 2019 |
All they do here is chestbeating with nothing to show. Owerri still remain a complete backward village filled with bad roads and filth after 40 yrs of creation. Abagworo over to you 1 Like
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Re: Few Pics From Imo State by ngoxievergreen(f): 4:57pm On Feb 12, 2019 |
with all the hype and noise from rochas, owerri is still an eyesore. we need a change of government to get things right in imo state 2 Likes |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by SUPRRA: 8:26pm On Feb 12, 2019 |
whaat |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Abagworo(m): 8:50am On Feb 13, 2019 |
New Pedestrian bridge at Alvan gate, Orlu road. 2 Likes
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Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Asshurbanipali: 8:56am On Feb 13, 2019 |
Another shabby project just like the flyover they are decorating while its collapsing. Abagworo your propaganda ends soon because a new government is taking over to start fixing the mess left by Okorocha, which will likely take decades to fix. Abagworo: 1 Like
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Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Abagworo(m): 9:27am On Feb 13, 2019 |
Wetheral road by Cherubim junction. 4 Likes
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Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Asshurbanipali: 9:44am On Feb 13, 2019 |
LOL This is the same substandard chaotic wetheral road laid bare, the same 3 meters long road you usually post when they ask you to show us what Okoro did in Imo state. Look at how shabby and substandard the road is. The whole road and gutter filled with sand. Look at the background and see a town dilapidated with old houses and rustic brown roofs filled with poor residents. The best road in Imo state. Abagworo your propaganda will end soon. Abagworo:
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Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Ozibe: 12:20pm On Feb 13, 2019 |
Asshurbanipali: Man once in a while, act like an adult. Not everything is child’s play. Biko 3 Likes |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Asshurbanipali: 12:22pm On Feb 13, 2019 |
what is this one yapping? Ozibe: |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by discusant: 2:03pm On Feb 13, 2019 |
ngoxievergreen: Come, this Owerri, is it Imo state? 99% discussion/photos here since 2012 is on Owerri. I go to Anambra thread, it's about discourse/photos of governor Obiano's developments in O'sha, Ogidi, Awka, Nnewi, Ihialla, etc. I go to Enugu threads, recently, Ugwuanyi photos of development in Nsukka are competing with those of Enugu. Same for other eastern Nigeria states. Is Imo governor an heeediot, that he reduced a whole state to one location in the state? 2 Likes |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Abagworo(m): 10:45am On Feb 14, 2019 |
Aerial view of Iceclub Owerri and developing area of Uratta in Owerri North. 4 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Asshurbanipali: 11:10am On Feb 14, 2019 |
Lol..Imo state is a totally failed state. When focused states are attracting big time investors to invest in real sectors, imo state is setting up and showing beer parlors as if it doesn't exist in other states with industrial presence. Okoroawusa had the rare opportunity of creating jobs by creating enabling environment for big time establishments and agro processing industries to invest in the state but he failed completely in his 8yrs to achieve anything meaningful. Abagworo:
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Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Javierleon(m): 11:39am On Feb 14, 2019 |
Okigwe shopping mall nearing completion 5 Likes
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Re: Few Pics From Imo State by MyGeneration(m): 8:05pm On Feb 14, 2019 |
Javierleon:Wow... nice one 2 Likes |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Yampotatocarrot(m): 7:19pm On Feb 15, 2019 |
SoNature: You are so so correct, taxes are deducted from my salary each month, and remitted to the government. After some times, one is given a tax clearance certificate or something like that sha (Note that this is in Lagos o... And its needed when you want to have any dealing with the state government). Also, the organization pays tax to the government aside land use charge and other charges from the Lagos state governmenr |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Yampotatocarrot(m): 7:24pm On Feb 15, 2019 |
Ofuzo: I understand your argument Sir, but will you mind shedding more light on your last statement, please *To capture people in a tax dragnet, you must FORMALIZE THE INFORMAL SECTOR*.... N how can it be done? |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Yampotatocarrot(m): 7:26pm On Feb 15, 2019 |
arinzeejikonye: Are these online pictures or did they allow u go in and snap? |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Christmasdon(m): 7:27pm On Feb 15, 2019 |
I Love Imo State. 3 Likes |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Yampotatocarrot(m): 7:30pm On Feb 15, 2019 |
Asshurbanipali: Just for arguments sake...Only town where u can find cheap commercial sex hawkers? I doubt... U definitely haven't visited Benue and Nasarawa Just for talks sake Sir. Apologies n I don't expect a reply PLEASE |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Yampotatocarrot(m): 7:33pm On Feb 15, 2019 |
kikake: Not just Ugwuanyi, d fine boy governor started the process by constructing a new road from Opi to Enugu town. Road was constructed by Arab contractors and was always a beauty to behold while driving through cos it passed through hills and lush environment. Ugwuanyi is from Nsukka, so its expected he does well for his people. Same thing Chime did in UDI and same thing Ambode did in Epe 1 Like |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Yampotatocarrot(m): 7:36pm On Feb 15, 2019 |
lilfreezy: No student environment and no hotel proximity, you say? Then, ull have to go outside OWERRI, just that I can't vouch for good roads in other areas outside Owerri |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Yampotatocarrot(m): 7:37pm On Feb 15, 2019 |
kikake: Please, boss. Enlighten me on something. Isn't Rochas contesting to represent Orlu in the Senate... Does that mean he is from Orlu? Something doesn't seem right here |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Yampotatocarrot(m): 7:44pm On Feb 15, 2019 |
arinzeejikonye: Someone should help me out here... IS EASTERn PALM UNIVERSITY a private university? If yes, its owned by who? I've always thought t was a public one |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Abagworo(m): 12:56am On Feb 16, 2019 |
lilfreezy: There are so many estates you can live in Owerri that meet up with your specifications ranging from highbrow to average. Example Graceland Estate or Arugo Garden as shown here. 2 Likes
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Re: Few Pics From Imo State by kikake: 10:16am On Feb 17, 2019 |
Abagworo: New ORLU stadium ---- roofing? Without roof on top of those chairs, weather must rot the chairs in a few months. After Okorocha dismantled the roofs of old ORLU stadium in 2012, it took weather less than six months to destroy all the seats of the stadium. 2 Likes
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Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Ofuzo: 11:30am On Feb 17, 2019 |
Yampotatocarrot: From my vantage point of having seen great cities, it might look like a daunting task, and a mission impossible to do anything about the chaotic nigerian environment, but it's doable. I exactly, also know what nigeria did wrong, and how they can right it. People don't like okorocha for one thing or the other, but his urban renewal projects are very commendable and a good example of how somebody can come in and totally change the dynamics of something that everyone thought was the norm. It's also the same reason why I don't mind, if his son in law wins the governorship election. Okorocha was the only SE governor that came in and started building stuff. Eventhough most of it is substandard, but at least, he had the right idea. Another SE governor, dave umahi, came in and started building stuff like okorocha, which is good. Not to distract from your pointed question, but I'm trying to show how it's possible to revolutionize an idea, even when it looks like all hope is lost. Now to the point about harmonizing the tax dragnet to capture eligible tax payers. You have to go back to the drawing board, with the governor and the legislature working hand in hand. The role of the governor here, is to select a few wealthy igbos with very high disposable income. I'm talking about those igbo billionaires whose businesses have very high turnover. Each igbo state have at least 5 such people. Let them sign a contract with the state government to build market infrastructure all over the state, not just in the cities but the villages. They should build to sell, lease or rent. They will build shopping promenades/shopping plazas, shopping malls, and mini marts. They should build business parks in the outskirts of cities. They should also build GIANT shopping enclosures as eke, orie, afor, and nkwo markets, in the villages and semi urban centers. Once this plan is in place, the house of assembly should pass a law banning hawking, street trading, highway trading, trading on road shoulders and median strips, attachment trading, and trading on residential areas. These should be done gradually, but once they start, there should be no let up until the the job is done. The house of assembly should also ban individuals from erecting any kind of business structures whatsoever without approval from the government. The idea here, is to make such structures from individuals impossible to erect. Everybody must be forced to migrate to these very well organized platforms under threat of confiscation or jail time for those who fail to comply. This might cause major disruption, but it could be temporary. But it's a first step. The government should put other policies in place to help cushion the disruption. At the end of the exercise, the price of everything will most definitely go up. The reason why everything is cheap in nigeria is because business people don't have any overhead cost. They don't pay anybody. They hardly don't pay any taxes or rent since most of them are operating on the street. They don't pay phone or light bills. So they can afford to charge less and still remain in business forever. I have written about such ameliorating things to cushion the effects on this forum but I can give you two things. Imo state have already started free education which is great. The only one I don't like is the university free education, because it will bankrupt the state. They should instead use the money for the university free education for elementary and secondary school feeding program for all students. They should make boarding schools compulsory for all secondary school students. They should also regulate how old one have to be to enter the workforce. At least, 50% of the people I see hawking on the street are children. The government should make it illegal to work until a certain age. And even when they allow them to work, the number of hours should be limited. This puts a structure on the number of people entering the workforce on a yearly basis, which is a very good statistics for any government to have. Once you eliminate the 3,4, and 5 tier trading system in nigeria, it becomes easy to capture all your eligible tax payers. Like I said, it's going to be hard to accomplish since we've been operating under this disorganized system for more than 50 years now. On a final note, for igbos in particular and nigerians in general to prosper, they must create jobs in manufacturing and white collar jobs, especially white collar jobs, which is totally and completely non existent. We will never solve the unemployment problem until jobs in those two categories are created. White collar jobs are those kinds of work that is done in a cubicle on the 14th, and 17th floors of skyscrapers. You know, the kind where you enter your confine, be it a room or cubicle, turn on your computer and start working. Right now, the only jobs available in igboland is buying and selling. You go to an area and you have 500 people selling car parts. You go to any nigerian city and you have 100,000 stores selling the same thing (provision store), in every street. In western countries, you have grocery stores the size of shopright. You might have about 10 shoprights in a big western city, and everybody will go there to shop. One shop is capable of employing 100 or more people in two daily shifts. This is why I keep telling people here that we're are 200 to 300 years behind western countries in all aspects. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Yampotatocarrot(m): 1:01pm On Feb 17, 2019 |
Ofuzo: ...right now, the only jobs available in Igboland is buying and selling. This is so true. However, I believe every area should be able to carve a niche for themselves. If that is the niche they wanna carve for themselves, the next thing is to make it orderly, as you've rightly stated. About the secondary schools being compulsory boarding, I don't believe government will be able to fully handle that. I served in a government boarding school in the North (Lafia to be precise), and I know how things are done with a lackadaisical attitude there. I've always wondered how there is no form of road hawking in some of these countries, now I know better. |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Amah70: 2:28pm On Feb 17, 2019 |
For faster and even devt, let every city or LGA in the east use its Federal allocations, taxes and allocations it is supposed to get from the state's federal allocation to develop itself. Evil people must not be allowed to continue to spread the LIES that a state govt must first develop state capital; there is no constitutional backing to that. Southeast needs to elect better-educated governors who understand not to seize federal allocations to the LGAs. A governor who seizes federal allocations of the state and its LGAs, seizes even the taxes from the LGAs, and tells his people that he is building "our dear state capital" - such a governor is a fraud. The governor sends his equally fraudulent agents online to show photos of wide roads in the state capital.. photos of Housing Areas this and that in Owerri, as sign that his state is developing. - to deceive the public. Rest of the state decays. No account for the monies that should have gone to provide infrastructures to rest of his state outside his "dear state capital". The East must stop to elect such a barely educated, discriminatory and most insensitive governor. |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Nobody: 6:24pm On Feb 17, 2019 |
Nice contributions, For me I think imo can opt for the enugu model, a tree can't make a forest, development is a collective effort, As can be seen from enugu, chime concentrated in enugu, while gburugburu is taking it further to nsukka and elsewhere, while ekweremadu is complementing their efforts within and beyond his constituency, Hence such can be observed too in anambra, we have all seen linda ikpeazu complementing what the state government is doing in onitsha metro, and other federal legislators from the state, Peter obi equally didn't do much in awka and agrarian areas, today, obiano is spreading road infrastructure within those areas, So it is a matter of collective effort, Imagine if federal legislative members and senators had complemented the efforts of the state government, things would have been better. Another issue, is the use of reputable construction firms, so job done,can have longevity. 1 Like |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Abagworo(m): 7:37pm On Feb 17, 2019 |
Yampotatocarrot: Buying and selling or correctly commerce is not the only job available in Igboland. Unemployment is a general problem across Nigeria and the reason is our belief in formal education for pride instead of practical education for skills development. However things are shaping up as more and more people are keying into self skills development instead of the usual job hunting of the past. 2 Likes |
Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Abagworo(m): 7:39pm On Feb 17, 2019 |
arinzeejikonye: Imo has had the worst federal representatives in history of mankind. It is only in Imo that everything is done by Governor and Senators come back to their constituency still pointing fingers at Governor for lack of federal presence. |
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