I saw a video of Apc gubernatorial candidates campaign trending online. He was shouting "obiano bu onye ohi" obiano is a thief, he stole 200 billion.

Hon Tony nwoye is a member representing anambra East/West in the national assembly, former PDP chairman in anambra state. Anambra East and West which comprises of numerous communities such as Aguleri, Anam, nzam, innoma, Nsugbe, igbokenyi, igbakwu etc, is one of the least developed local government in anambra state.

Since 2015, Hon Tony nwoye had been collecting constituency allowance but there is nothing to show of it. Not even a borehole or wheelbarrow. This is an area with the highest rate of poverty in anambra state many out of school children and many unemployed youth.


When flood was ravaging his constituency in 2016, where was he? He was spotted in nzam yesterday for the first time since 2015 talking rubbish..

Before you vote him.

Let's x-ray the people of igbokenyi in anambra East..

Travelling to Igbokenyi is quite an ordeal. From Onitsha, Anambra State, you board a boat to Illah in Delta State, from where you trek to the neglected Igala-speaking, rustic community. But NWANOSIKE ONU reports that things may have started to change



Their only road to the outside world is a narrow path, flooded in the rainy season and overgrown in the hot period. On it, residents of Igbokenyi in Anambra West Local Government Area of the state march to Illah in Delta State where they board a boat on the bank of River Niger. At the end of their trip outside, they march back on the same path to their rustic community of perhaps over 100,000 people.

Their resilience is as remarkable as their peculiarities. They speak Igala language of Kogi State, with whom they have a boundary. But they are in Anambra, though quartered on the Delta end of the Niger, and speak smattering Igbo.

There is no primary school in Igbokenyi there is hardly anything else bearing a modern mark, except perhaps the clothes the people wear. No paved road. No secondary school. No hospital. And no fond memories from any government of any stripe.

Their mud shelters are hardly better than what their forebears bequeathed to them. It is rare to see any fair-skinned person, the reason for which is hard to see.

The people know what suffering is like. The only thing they say they do not know is why they are where they are, and why no one seems to care whether they live or die.

They have no pipe-borne water, and perhaps count themselves lucky to, at least, have the great Niger to draw from and wash in.

The visitor to Igbokenyi gets to Illah first, by boat from Onitsha, Anambra State, or Asaba, Delta State. From Illah, you walk, as the residents do, on that bush path, to Igbokenyi. It is not the pleasant of journeys, but that is the lot of the residents, and the visitor must also put up with it.

The people are in agony. All they have is mud houses like in the ancient times.

The only source of making ends meet in the area is farming.

Even their farm products are always difficult to transport outside the area because of lack of transportation means, except through the River to the cities.

But during one of his tours to some churches round the state months back, a philanthropist in the state from Umuchu community, Mr. Godwin Ezeemo, who wept seeing such backwardness, told the Anglican Church in the area that he would provide boats to ease their transportation problems.

Kachifo3:
I saw a video of Apc gubernatorial candidates campaign trending online. He was shouting "obiano bu onye ohi" obiano is a thief, he stole 200 billion.

Hon Tony nwoye is a member representing anambra East/West in the national assembly, former PDP chairman in anambra state. Anambra East and West which comprises of numerous communities such as Aguleri, Anam, nzam, innoma, Nsugbe, igbokenyi, igbakwu etc, is one of the least developed local government in anambra state.

Since 2015, Hon Tony nwoye had been collecting constituency allowance but there is nothing to show of it. Not even a borehole or wheelbarrow. This is an area with the highest rate of poverty in anambra state many out of school children and many unemployed youth.


When flood was ravaging his constituency in 2016, where was he? He was spotted in nzam yesterday for the first time since 2015 talking rubbish..

Before you vote him.

Let's x-ray the people of igbokenyi in anambra East..

Travelling to Igbokenyi is quite an ordeal. From Onitsha, Anambra State, you board a boat to Illah in Delta State, from where you trek to the neglected Igala-speaking, rustic community. But NWANOSIKE ONU reports that things may have started to change



Their only road to the outside world is a narrow path, flooded in the rainy season and overgrown in the hot period. On it, residents of Igbokenyi in Anambra West Local Government Area of the state march to Illah in Delta State where they board a boat on the bank of River Niger. At the end of their trip outside, they march back on the same path to their rustic community of perhaps over 100,000 people.

Their resilience is as remarkable as their peculiarities. They speak Igala language of Kogi State, with whom they have a boundary. But they are in Anambra, though quartered on the Delta end of the Niger, and speak smattering Igbo.

There is no primary school in Igbokenyi there is hardly anything else bearing a modern mark, except perhaps the clothes the people wear. No paved road. No secondary school. No hospital. And no fond memories from any government of any stripe.

Their mud shelters are hardly better than what their forebears bequeathed to them. It is rare to see any fair-skinned person, the reason for which is hard to see.

The people know what suffering is like. The only thing they say they do not know is why they are where they are, and why no one seems to care whether they live or die.

They have no pipe-borne water, and perhaps count themselves lucky to, at least, have the great Niger to draw from and wash in.

The visitor to Igbokenyi gets to Illah first, by boat from Onitsha, Anambra State, or Asaba, Delta State. From Illah, you walk, as the residents do, on that bush path, to Igbokenyi. It is not the pleasant of journeys, but that is the lot of the residents, and the visitor must also put up with it.

The people are in agony. All they have is mud houses like in the ancient times.

The only source of making ends meet in the area is farming.

Even their farm products are always difficult to transport outside the area because of lack of transportation means, except through the River to the cities.

But during one of his tours to some churches round the state months back, a philanthropist in the state from Umuchu community, Mr. Godwin Ezeemo, who wept seeing such backwardness, told the Anglican Church in the area that he would provide boats to ease their transportation problems.

This story is not good at all. I wonder why Anambra East and Anambra West LGA are the least developed in Anambra State.

I have friends from other parts of Anambra, and when they tell the stories of how developed their places are, I begin to wonder why Anambra East is so undeveloped...
God help us.