HappyJoe: APGA has not delivered a single standard infrastructure project. I doubt this airport will be the first.

Most probably it will be of poor quality & not delivered on trip. When Obiano talked about it previously, he called it an "airstrip" - and that is exactly what it will be.

ChimaAdeoye: I am still pondering if this is a good priority for my state now.
I know in 2007 and 2008 we made representations to Gov Peter Obi on the need to complete Oba airport or to start another one along Awka Onitsha express way or along Onitsha - Owerri express. Prof. Chinyere Okunna the Governor's prime commisioner assured that the result of a feasibility study was being awaited. We made a second request on this issue in early 2008 when the Asaba airport foundation was laid warning that if Delta beat Anambra to it and acquires an airport in Asaba, the dynamics of our airport's viability will change and the momentum created by a good airport in Asaba will be difficult to overturn. The feasibility study result was again used as an excuse to postpone that request.

While i have obviously agitated for an airport in Anambra state before 2009, the new realities on the ground cannot be carelessly ignored. Anambra is a young state in dire need of infrastructure. We must choose our priorities very wisely based on what is in our utmost interest. If truly a feasibility study was carried out on the Anambra airport, it be useful for Obiano to find it and see what their findings are. I also think our airport should be along a major expressway leading to Onitsha instead of the hinterland.If Obiano makes a rash decision and this project ends up like Oba airport which was never completed after spending billions of naira there, I will hold the governor responsible for the waste and help make sure he pays for this politically. We should apply our meagre resources wisely.

TabletMan: Chino the only good thing about this airport is the cargo and aviation stuff, aside from that asaba international airport will kill their business.
And please I need a clear picture of that map cos I am going to otuocha next week.
I will like to use the opportunity and see the airport site for myself and know if they are serious atall, cos throughout my stay at otuocha last year, nothing is going on there apart from orient workers I saw drilling the omanbala river at anam.
You said that emzor want to site the biggest pharmaceutical plant in west africa at otuocha but I saw nothing of such there.

oneeast: You have made some valid and some invalid points as well!

Well lemme start by telling you that whether others built theirs or not ours will be the most viable airport amongst the pack. I said this for a reason because in the first instance Delta state built their airport with Onitsha and Nnewi in mind was that not a misplaced priority already when they equally needed to fix their roads. But they went ahead to build it.

As for Oba airport it wouldn't have worked because the site alone is not good, in that it is an undulating ground without much room for expansion.

It is pertinent to note that Anambra will not be funded the project 100%, it will be purely on PPP arrangement. So I do not see why you guys are worried over the project because it does not stop other infrastructural projects going on in the state.

The new site for the project which is Otuocha is very central even to the services it will provide for its users. The site is very close and central to the 3 major cities of the state and equally next to the Orient petroleum refinery and facilities. Orient Petroleum intend to produce aviation fuel and that airport is very key to its operations. We are not talking of the service the airport will provide to the economic zones of Onitsha and Nnewi.

We cannot over emphasize the need at an airport in Anambra at least one for a start..

ChimaAdeoye:

Chino, stop putting up all these maps, I know the place better than you.I don't wish to indulge in a fruitless back and forth on this issue. ONE thing you said that i like if it is true is " It will be a PPP funded project" So that it does not tie up funds meant for the development of the entire state. Therefore, I support the building of the airport in that case. I don't know about the convenience of it's location but that is the headache of the PPP consortium investing their money.

I am a core Anaedo person and in business we know sentiment is a loser's strategy . So for example, If you expect Anambra people to buy an inferior and expensive product just because the seller is from their hometown and the other seller of the original and cheaper product is not, then wake up from your slumber for the surprise. Anambra people will not patronize you out of pure sentiment alone. That is why we try our best to beat every competitor's quality and price as a winning business strategy.

So, I tell you solemnly, if we do not beat our competitor's quality and convenience of location in this case, don't expect our people to stop patronizing them purely out of sentiment.

Ekwusigom nkem.

oneeast: You always appear bitter and frustrated each time you make a comment like somebody who was thrown out of his job.

Why are you worried about this project? How do you know it will not be a worldclass facility? Mr man get yourself together, you can die of HBP if you do not watch it. Your comments smacks of bitterness and frustration. Learn to control your emotions even when you are intimidated!

I am sure you will surely die if the project comes out worldclass as it is definitely gonna be..

oneeast: I make bold to tell you that this is gonna be the Nigeria's busiest International Cargo Airport when completed. The people in the team are all go getters and will deliver on schedule.

ChinoElects: At least 50% of the users of the airports you mentions are Anambrans coupled with the fact that the airport will sell aviation fuel. So having the airport in Anambra will eventually crash the ones in Asaba and Enugu to some extent, because there are little or no economic activities in those states to drive the airport in the first place. The airport is a critical infrastructure in Anambra because it will go on and open the state in the areas of oil/gas, industrialization, commercialization, agriculture, jobs etc..

ChinoElects: This is going to be bomb nwanne mu..

I pity anybody who is yet to own a land in Awka, Onitsha or Nnewi, particularly around Otuocha axis where the airport, refinery and petrochemical are being sited!

Anambra adigo mma..

OreMI22:
I hope he builds something standard like the Dutse airport in the picture with runway at least up to 4 kilometers.

In the end, it will all be a collossal waste of money which will ruin Obiano and his party. Although he promised to build that airport, the reality of a modern Asaba International airport has since made obsolete the need for Oba airport or any such local airports around Onitsha.

After sinking about N50 -60 billion naira in that project, he will understand the reality of Asaba International airport. Onitsha traders will still prefer to land in Asaba and ride on a smooth expressway to their homes than land somewhere in Anam and drive on winding state roads for hours to get to their home in Onitsha. Besides the distance from Onitsha city, many airlines will still prefer to ply the more modern airport with better amenities. Anambra and Delta will then be locked in a competition to improve their airport, and we know which state has more abundant resources to embark on such wasteful venture.In the end, because of it location and other advantages, airlines will still prefer Asaba International airport to using Anam.

Obiano will better serve his state by investing this N50 -60 billion naira in a state Independent power plant, or complete the state refinery and make it functional or even build a light rail connecting Onitsha to Nnewi or Onitsha to Awka. I don't expect people that cannot reason beyond tomorrow to see what is being said here. So I will say Big congratulations to Obiano and co. Please build the Anam International airport. But, be prepared for the dire political consequences on you and your team after you squander the people's money in a white elephant project that has since ceased to be a priority of the state since air access into Onitsha started more than 3 years ago.

OreMI22:
I hope he builds something standard like the Dutse airport in the picture with runway at least up to 4 kilometers.

In the end, it will all be a collossal waste of money which will ruin Obiano and his party. Although he promised to build that airport, the reality of a modern Asaba International airport has since made obsolete the need for Oba airport or any such local airports around Onitsha.

After sinking about N50 -60 billion naira in that project, he will understand the reality of Asaba International airport. Onitsha traders will still prefer to land in Asaba and ride on a smooth expressway to their homes than land somewhere in Anam and drive on winding state roads for hours to get to their home in Onitsha. Besides the distance from Onitsha city, many airlines will still prefer to ply the more modern airport with better amenities. Anambra and Delta will then be locked in a competition to improve their airport, and we know which state has more abundant resources to embark on such wasteful venture.In the end, because of it location and other advantages, airlines will still prefer Asaba International airport to using Anam.

Obiano will better serve his state by investing this N50 -60 billion naira in a state Independent power plant, or complete the state refinery and make it functional or even build a light rail connecting Onitsha to Nnewi or Onitsha to Awka. I don't expect people that cannot reason beyond tomorrow to see what is being said here. So I will say Big congratulations to Obiano and co. Please build the Anam International airport. But, be prepared for the dire political consequences on you and your team after you squander the people's money in a white elephant project that has since ceased to be a priority of the state since air access into Onitsha started more than 3 years ago.

HopeAtHand:
@ChinoElects, 18months never reach? Where is the airport?

lagdmark:

The shutdown has delayed the airport projects, the airport will be completed within 3-4 months immediately coronavirus is over.