galaxypropertie:
Abagworo, here's Awka Millennium City, we haven't even touched that one yet. AMC has 100% well paved roads and covered drains, something imo state cannot even achieve in Owerri even in the next 200yrs.

Na so Awka lack road so tey you start to post private estate as govt. road??

Afam4eva:

No offence but we need to stop putting Owerri and beautiful in the same sentence. I used to call Owerri beautiful but i repented sometime last 2 years. Yes, Owerri used to look nice pre-Okorocha and he intended to make it look better but instead did a shoddy job that now makes it slightly better than Aba in terms of look and feel. I know how Bank Road in Owerri used to look with the few trees back in the days but everything was uprooted by Rochas making the place look very bare. .

Ndi Imo read this. I didn't write. I am not the only one that thought Aba and Owerri are similar in bad roads and poor environment

Afam4eva:
Please, do not set your foot in Owerri when it rains. The roads are probably the worse in the world. There are hardly good roads in that town. The only one i can think of is Bank Road all the way through IMSU junction down to Orji bridge. Tonye is spot on.

Hahahaha

Bastardwike and abagworo should roll out their propaganda to defend this bare truth

Afam4eva:
I just came back from Owerri and this time, i was opportune to comprehensively tour the city as well as some other parts of the state. We were taken to see some ongoing projects by the Governor, Rochas Okorocha, also accompanied by the Inspector General of Police. I visited the Rochas foundation for both African and Nigerian students. I also went to the newly built but ongoing Eastern Palm University. The road, to Orlu/Ideato is completely smooth save for a few spots and i think the Governor has done well in that regard. The police headquarters under construction will be one of the biggest in Nigeria when completed. I also commend the governor for that.

But I think i now have a complete understanding of what the problems in Owerri and Igboland is.

There's a problem of roads in Owerri even in the highbrow or popular areas. Take Control junction for example, there's no reason why that place shoud not have an excellent tarred road considering the fact that it's the gateway to Owerri if you're coming from the Onitsha axis. It's the same story in almost every part of the capital. Even the government house has it's own fair share of bad roads. How much more where you have FUTO and Nekede, especially where you have the poly. The road is extremely bad. Should we talk about Owerri inner streets, that despite the decent buildings have no roads whatsoever.

If any government wants to change Owerri forever, they should just focus on massive road construction in every nook and cranny of the capital.

Bastardwike and Abagworo, read from a former mod that visited Owerri. Lol

Nwaforigbo also read this hahahaha

galaxypropertie:
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Is this an estate, illiterate? At least Awka have roads but Owerri is a shithole that doesn't have roads just like Aba. Kuo isi na okwute

Mugu this is AMC built by a private company with partnership with SG (who by the way is only providing land).

Him no even know wetin dey happen for Oka self... *spits*

Eboh media did a 43 minute video coverage driving around Owerri which I believe is the longest so far I've seen online. The dude is really trying and I await his coverage of other major Igbo cities. I guess Chino's madness has stopped so I will repeat what I posted earlier for the real people starting with Wetheral road


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meY6tHSgImc

Next is Rochas foundation road also known as Spibat road.

MCC road which is undergoing reconstruction

Okigwe road leading from Government house to Orji town

Assumpta Avenue/Bank Road

Ojukwu Boulevard

Abagworo:
Chino you can get cheap quality houses in Owerri.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSqMqa91jUc

This semi detached architecture has come to stay,almost every part of the country is embracing it,spreading like wild fire.

More coming up.

Can IMO state still have office complexes in the mould of isopadec ever again?

galaxypropertie:
Abagworo, here's Awka Millennium City, we haven't even touched that one yet. AMC has 100% well paved roads and covered drains, something imo state cannot even achieve in Owerri even in the next 200yrs.

Your childishness stinks. Big body with catfish brain. Open a thread and promote Awka town. Stop this your primary two argument, you're embarrassing Igbos here

Rochas Okorocha tried it, it failed on arrival -
you didn’t complete your state university teaching hospital because it’s not on the doorsteps of owners of Imo state; but want to start another bigger hospital project elsewhere in Imo state - another failed project in the making. All of them from Bad advisers from one part of Imo state on duty.
Federal university of technology has acquired vast acres of land in Avu-Owerri to establish a hospital. FMC and Imo Specialist Hopital in the same town. Iwuanyawu asked former governor Goodluck Jonathan to convert FMC Owerri to teaching hospital while he knew that the state university teaching hospital was not completed yet.
Gluttonous Bad advisers kwontinue on the job of wastage in Imo state

Mensamusa:
Can IMO state still have office complexes in the mould of isopadec ever again?

Oil producing Ohaji/Egbema, the Orus and Oguta - in any of these local government areas was where ISOPADEC headquarters should have been built.

But Rochas Okorocha who didn’t understand the difference between a state and state capital built ISOPADEC in Owerri where he boasted about that he was building his dear state capital city to international standard.
The group in Imo state who wants everything of government in Imo state at their doorstep applaud Okorocha, and use the name Imo instead of Owerri to ask for more.
A city of international standard without public water supply system does not exist.

Money put in erecting that giant impressionist ISOPADEC structure could have provided public water supply system to all of Imo state.

Treated public water supply system is the first insurance for health.

BastardWike:


This is the kind of private sector investments that would boom in Owerri/Imo State once the state government can provide the basics. I have studied the socioeconomic lifestyle of Igboland vis-a-vis Nigeria and I can tell you that we have the potential to make our place great.

We Igbos have been losing our elite/intellectuals/high networth individuals to Abuja and Lagos over the years and it has contributed in slowing down our progress as a people. These demography are the ones that contribute most to any economy and promote its growth. They're the ones with the much needed purchasing power necessary for development and we must bring them back to Igboland, particularly Owerri.

The question is how do we bring them back? We can do that by focusing on the following areas of urban renewal:

1. Create an exclusive zone; New Owerri is already taking shape as an exclusive area. State government should step in and ensure that there is sanity, good infrastructure, social amenities, and security.

2. Sanitation; make Owerri the cleanest city in Nigeria. Plant trees, flowers and grasses that would be constantly maintained. Employ youths that would be going through the streets early in the morning with carts to collect rubbish from people or have designated time for collecting refuse say 8pm to 8am. People should be made to pay sanitation levy too. Create a unit like environmental police with kitted bikes who will be patrolling our streets.

3. Tourism; create a classy Disney world and nature parks around New Owerri. Work with private sector to ensure they're top notch and well maintained. Periodically pay bloggers and local TV stations Channels and AIT to showcase the beauty of Owerri (hotels and showbiz centers can be taxed particularly to sustain this)

3. Perception; have zero tolerance to roadside traders (they must never cross the gutter or block sidewalks). There should be no parking zones clearly marked while vehicles parked on the road should not cross the yellow line. Let people understand that lots of ills that occur in other cities are not allowed in Owerri and be strict in its implementation. Put mobile courts in strategic places that would try offenders and the fines paid directly to accounts of government.

4. Place embargo on further building of shops within the city centre. Ensure that all gutters, especially along major roads are covered which would also serve as sidewalks.

5. Fix all township roads even if it means patching all potholes constantly until the major roads are all fixed.

Once these things are done, lots of our people rich people living in Abuja and Lagos because they believe that those are the only places they can live without losing their sanity will start returning to live in Owerri. If they can get close to the feeling they have living in the Abuja here in Owerri, they will definitely prefer to stay in Owerri.
These things are within the reach of Imo State government to achieve if only they have the passion to go for it.

Bros, if Owerri-centric persons like you lead Imo state for another 16 years after Owerri-centric Rochas Okorocha, that Owerri shall become a shithole of a city. Go to Irete, Egbeada, Naze, Egbu, etc areas of Owerri to see urban squalors due to population influx to Owerri from the rest of Imo state. We need to stop this Owerri madness people in Imo state before they drive the state aground. Pray for redistribution of government development projects to Orlu and other parts of the state where there is nothing, so as to check migration to Owerri from rest of the state.

You don’t go to any state anywhere in the world and what is talked about the state’s development process is 99% for state capital. Even clowns can’t talk like that.

Already, too many urban ghettos litter all over Owerri due to population influx to Owerri from the other parts of Imo state denied basic development projects of government now concentrated in Owerri.

In 8 years, Okorocha government multiplied the population of Owerri by about 4, as he practically put nearly all the federal allocations of the 27 LGAs and the state into construction in Owerri which hosts all government projects of development in Imo state.

It’s disheartening to read some people here still asking the present government to do all sorts of development things in Owerri, unarguably also with the federal allocations of the 27 LGAs of Imo state.
This state capital madness peculiar to Imo state resulting from lack of good education vis a vis the meaning of state and state capital, as well as the difference between the two - the madness must be cured now in those afflicted.

We can all count the state built institutions in Owerri or anywhere in Imo with 10 fingers. While I doubt people will stop, the truth is that all Imolites decided to develop Owerri; not the government.

99% of the institutions buildings and infrastructure in the city is private, and as private capital chose Owerri the government has to accommodate that. Owerri will not have as many or less road projects that Orlu or Okigwe, it's mathematically impractical.

All of the major cities in human history, especially in our part of the world are those that took advantage of the dominate trade of the era. When it was slave trading, it was Aro-Chukwu, it switched to the palm trade which benefitted Orlu/Oru region, Aba and Portharcourt. When it was Coal Enugu rose. Onitsha rose from being the gateway between the east and west when people were interested in going to Lagos.

Now that the #1 source of income in east Nigeria is from the diaspora, the Imolites are in diaspora more than anywhere else, the city that has taken advantage of that the most will benefit the most and bar none it's Owerri. Owerri made it's self a diaspora spending destination from the time of the Disney Hotel. As an American raised Onye Imo, I know as a fact that that's where your parents took you if you were bored and they wanted to show you that Nigeria had nice things as far back as the early 00s. The airport also helps in a major way as does the lack of commercial 'chaos' you see in Aba, Onitsha and parts of Enugu. Today the diaspora is thinking home, and hence Owerri is booming because that's Owerri's niche.

Orlu and Okigwe can find ways to better position themselves to take advantage of this tide because it's not permanent. Foreign countries are closing their doors at record rates, and traveling abroad is becoming less lucrative as the only open countries are worst than Nigeria. Soon something else will be the wave and whichever city takes advantage of it the most will prosper. People want to criticize Owerri about everything from having too many schools, to having too many hotels, etc etc, but East Nigeria is the #1 tourist destination on earth (I'll argue that with anyone) and Owerri is the city taking that reality seriously. Most of what's being built in Owerri is being built by people abroad who are looking to expand their enjoyment of coming home. So we can talk about government all we want but the reality is the reality.

Abagworro:
OWERRI FLYOVER

This is expository. You have done well Abagworo avoided the Owerri flyover