Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) had in January 2020 declared some LGAs in Imo and Abia States as highly probable flood risk areas. Among the places listed within Abia State as a highly probable flood risk location in 2020, is Umunneochi LGA while others are Osisioma-Ngwa, Isiala-Ngwa North and Ukwa West LGA.

The others are Ukwa-East, Umuahia-North, Umuahia-South and Obingwa LGA.

Before you share dramatic flooding pictures from Ariaria area, kindly note the following:

1. Ariaria International Market, Aba, which is more than 44 years old, is located within Osisioma Ngwa LGA which is included in the NiMet forecast

2. Aba, the commercial nerve center of the South East is located within a low lying heavy rain belt and the current location of Ariaria market is in the lowest lying area, west of the city, while Ngwa Road (Ndiegoro area) is located within the lowest lying point in the eastern axis of the city.

3. In its early days, the Ikpeazu administration noted the above (2) and promptly designed a plan to reconstruct Ariaria International Market (see 3D picture), brought in a foreign investor to deliver the project but the traders vehemently resisted it, followed that up by refusing to move and literally walked out on the latest meeting organized to offer them alternative accommodation and incentives to move pending when the proposed remodeled market was completed (This can be onfirmed from attached comment of the Chairman of the Market Committee, Mr Okeke Chigozie Stephen).

4. There were drainage paths constructed originally in the market but some of the traders blocked the drains by building illegal structures on the path and totally distorted the master plan of the 44 years old market. Same traders are at the forefront of resisting attempts to reconstruct the market for reasons that bother on selfishness.

5. Yet, to support trading activities, tne government embarked on tne Ifeobara Pond flood management and the ongoing reconstruction of Brass-Faulks (Ariaria) project by Setraco Construction Company that has ensured that, for the first time in decades, vehicles can move from Express Junction through Faulks Road to Brass Street along Aba-Owerri Road, in addition to 3 other roads done by the administration to link up Ariaria market area.

6. There is an unoccupied brand new “Aba Mall” in Osisioma LGA done by private investors under the preceding administration that has been waiting for at least a segment of Ariaria market traders to move to and allow for full, partial or phased reconstruction of Ariaria market.

7. Under the watch of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, some internal Roads in Ariaria were rehabilitated and new drains constructed to evacuate storm water through the new 6.5km underground drainage pipe done by the administration but the traders continue to block the internal drains by dumping wastes into them and putting up makeshift trading structures on the path.

If the prediction of heavy rainfall and flooding of Osisioma Ngwa area from hydrological and meteorological agencies hold true then Ariaria International Market and surrounding communities will definitely be heavily impacted.

Rather than hire pay per publication photographers to share real and fake dramatic flood pictures from the market, tne traders need to work with the government to ensure immediate evacuation to any of the alternative markets, or, in the least, commence immediate desilting of gutters and removal of illegal structures built on drainage ways.

Aside from the work already done at the Ifeobara-Faulks Road area, the Ikpeazu administration also moved to solve the perennial flooding challenge at the Ndiegoro axis by partnering with the World Bank to commence the ongoing N27.4bn flood control project that includes total reconstruction of Ngwa, Obohia, Ohanku and Uratta roads with a spur to PH Road as well as a massive underground drainage through Ngwa road to Aba Waterside. That is by far the biggest, the most ambitious and the most audacious effort made to solve the perennial Ndiegoro flooding problem that made late Chief Sam Mbakwe weep because of neglect by the federal government.

Unless Ariaria traders heed the warning from federal and state agencies and do the needful today, there will likely be more dramatic pictures from Ariaria area in the coming days and years. As we say in Igbo land, “Ukpana okpoko gburu nti tiri ya”, will definitely apply.

Abia State Government is ever ready to support long term solutions to the Ariaria flooding challenge with a ready plan to humanely relocate the traders without causing undue hardship to our people.

For now, it is to the credit of the government that while the administration has not been able to stop heavy rains from falling in Aba we have ensured that less than an hour after the heaviest of rains, flood water will seamlessly follow the newly constructed drains scattered around Aba to the natural storm water collection point in Aba Waterside.

The One at Osisioma has not been active, abi na this one go dey active .


GIVE ABA PEOPLE GOOD ROAD, ITS NOT TOO MUCH TO ASK.

EVERYWHERE DIRTY FOR ABA.

Show us the real market..

Lol.... Ikpeazu told you to post this thing?... This governor has been insulting us with uselessness for the past 4 years...

Will be nice if completed

kalu61....Please run down here.

Abaribe, the hypocrite where are you? Nothing seems working in Abia state, and I have never heard any criticism from you.

Which kind leaders do we have in the east.

Imagine what somebody is calling mall, apart from Ebonyi state and Anambra governor its asif the other governors were sent by somebody to punish us, especially IMO and abia governors

Try nonsense in Ariaria and see Aba burn down.

What sort of wicked and insensitive govt is this? Demolish the structures built on the drainages and do your reconstruction, not by these your greedy plan of rebuilding the whole market and allocating/selling people's life savings to your cronies and highest bidders.

Wicked souls

op show us the video or real pix. the propaganda no dey tire you

nazicartel:
Lol.... Ikpeazu told you to post this thing?... This governor has been insulting us with uselessness for the past 4 years...

5 years bro

The ABA Mall depicted here resembles ordinary residential homes in an estate. In Nigeria, we tend to build banks, fire and police stations, shopping centres, retail buildings and so on all same as we build ordinary houses and flats. This is a trend that we need to rethink if we are to create that Nigeria whose cities and towns, are at least as aesthetically pleasing as those anywhere. We need to establish in Nigeria national, regional or state standard for what official buildings must resemble separate from what residential homes must look like. For instance, we could declare that all police stations are to be square, flat roofed and at least two stories height; fire stations are to have broad arched shaped entrances; all malls to be built in the flat faced many windows style of office blocks etc.

This is fine.

Igbo states doing well.

Useless as always

Kani581:

Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) had in January 2020 declared some LGAs in Imo and Abia States as highly probable flood risk areas. Among the places listed within Abia State as a highly probable flood risk location in 2020, is Umunneochi LGA while others are Osisioma-Ngwa, Isiala-Ngwa North and Ukwa West LGA.

The others are Ukwa-East, Umuahia-North, Umuahia-South and Obingwa LGA.

Before you share dramatic flooding pictures from Ariaria area, kindly note the following:

1. Ariaria International Market, Aba, which is more than 44 years old, is located within Osisioma Ngwa LGA which is included in the NiMet forecast

2. Aba, the commercial nerve center of the South East is located within a low lying heavy rain belt and the current location of Ariaria market is in the lowest lying area, west of the city, while Ngwa Road (Ndiegoro area) is located within the lowest lying point in the eastern axis of the city.

3. In its early days, the Ikpeazu administration noted the above (2) and promptly designed a plan to reconstruct Ariaria International Market (see 3D picture), brought in a foreign investor to deliver the project but the traders vehemently resisted it, followed that up by refusing to move and literally walked out on the latest meeting organized to offer them alternative accommodation and incentives to move pending when the proposed remodeled market was completed (This can be onfirmed from attached comment of the Chairman of the Market Committee, Mr Okeke Chigozie Stephen).

4. There were drainage paths constructed originally in the market but some of the traders blocked the drains by building illegal structures on the path and totally distorted the master plan of the 44 years old market. Same traders are at the forefront of resisting attempts to reconstruct the market for reasons that bother on selfishness.

5. Yet, to support trading activities, tne government embarked on tne Ifeobara Pond flood management and the ongoing reconstruction of Brass-Faulks (Ariaria) project by Setraco Construction Company that has ensured that, for the first time in decades, vehicles can move from Express Junction through Faulks Road to Brass Street along Aba-Owerri Road, in addition to 3 other roads done by the administration to link up Ariaria market area.

6. There is an unoccupied brand new “Aba Mall” in Osisioma LGA done by private investors under the preceding administration that has been waiting for at least a segment of Ariaria market traders to move to and allow for full, partial or phased reconstruction of Ariaria market.

7. Under the watch of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, some internal Roads in Ariaria were rehabilitated and new drains constructed to evacuate storm water through the new 6.5km underground drainage pipe done by the administration but the traders continue to block the internal drains by dumping wastes into them and putting up makeshift trading structures on the path.

If the prediction of heavy rainfall and flooding of Osisioma Ngwa area from hydrological and meteorological agencies hold true then Ariaria International Market and surrounding communities will definitely be heavily impacted.

Rather than hire pay per publication photographers to share real and fake dramatic flood pictures from the market, tne traders need to work with the government to ensure immediate evacuation to any of the alternative markets, or, in the least, commence immediate desilting of gutters and removal of illegal structures built on drainage ways.

Aside from the work already done at the Ifeobara-Faulks Road area, the Ikpeazu administration also moved to solve the perennial flooding challenge at the Ndiegoro axis by partnering with the World Bank to commence the ongoing N27.4bn flood control project that includes total reconstruction of Ngwa, Obohia, Ohanku and Uratta roads with a spur to PH Road as well as a massive underground drainage through Ngwa road to Aba Waterside. That is by far the biggest, the most ambitious and the most audacious effort made to solve the perennial Ndiegoro flooding problem that made late Chief Sam Mbakwe weep because of neglect by the federal government.

Unless Ariaria traders heed the warning from federal and state agencies and do the needful today, there will likely be more dramatic pictures from Ariaria area in the coming days and years. As we say in Igbo land, “Ukpana okpoko gburu nti tiri ya”, will definitely apply.

Abia State Government is ever ready to support long term solutions to the Ariaria flooding challenge with a ready plan to humanely relocate the traders without causing undue hardship to our people.

For now, it is to the credit of the government that while the administration has not been able to stop heavy rains from falling in Aba we have ensured that less than an hour after the heaviest of rains, flood water will seamlessly follow the newly constructed drains scattered around Aba to the natural storm water collection point in Aba Waterside.

Lai lai e no go better for you. See the nonsense lies you come here dey write. Go find work o cos na curse go only follow this your blatant stupidity. How much dem even pay you to write this rubbish you wrote? Post current pictures of all these ghost project you are writing about and stop deceiving people living far from Aba. Any one with friends or relatives staying in Aba should put a call through and verify the lies written by this anu ofia.

Adaibeku, they said your state has over the night turn to New Jersey. Tomorrow, you sef go shout say Abia no be Lagos

which Road are we gonna use to ply the area...

Thread Seen..

Anything to justify their incompetencies...

Nah eh! No qualms
This so sophisticated

I respect this people for there weed
The only weed above mushin weed in Africa
Aba weed= devil agemate

The media won't let you see this. Its only bad images of Aba that you'll see online. Hence the bad image depicted as Aba's current state. If you are observant, you'll remember shell finished layibg gas pipelines in Aba not long ago and Ariria IPP the only independent power station in Nigeria (or so I think). Am not saying Ikpeazu is a saint, is as good as Umahi or that Aba is small London; NO. But Aba's image is wrongly portrayed full stop.....



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Kani581:

Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) had in January 2020 declared some LGAs in Imo and Abia States as highly probable flood risk areas. Among the places listed within Abia State as a highly probable flood risk location in 2020, is Umunneochi LGA while others are Osisioma-Ngwa, Isiala-Ngwa North and Ukwa West LGA.

The others are Ukwa-East, Umuahia-North, Umuahia-South and Obingwa LGA.

Before you share dramatic flooding pictures from Ariaria area, kindly note the following:

1. Ariaria International Market, Aba, which is more than 44 years old, is located within Osisioma Ngwa LGA which is included in the NiMet forecast

2. Aba, the commercial nerve center of the South East is located within a low lying heavy rain belt and the current location of Ariaria market is in the lowest lying area, west of the city, while Ngwa Road (Ndiegoro area) is located within the lowest lying point in the eastern axis of the city.

3. In its early days, the Ikpeazu administration noted the above (2) and promptly designed a plan to reconstruct Ariaria International Market (see 3D picture), brought in a foreign investor to deliver the project but the traders vehemently resisted it, followed that up by refusing to move and literally walked out on the latest meeting organized to offer them alternative accommodation and incentives to move pending when the proposed remodeled market was completed (This can be onfirmed from attached comment of the Chairman of the Market Committee, Mr Okeke Chigozie Stephen).

4. There were drainage paths constructed originally in the market but some of the traders blocked the drains by building illegal structures on the path and totally distorted the master plan of the 44 years old market. Same traders are at the forefront of resisting attempts to reconstruct the market for reasons that bother on selfishness.

5. Yet, to support trading activities, tne government embarked on tne Ifeobara Pond flood management and the ongoing reconstruction of Brass-Faulks (Ariaria) project by Setraco Construction Company that has ensured that, for the first time in decades, vehicles can move from Express Junction through Faulks Road to Brass Street along Aba-Owerri Road, in addition to 3 other roads done by the administration to link up Ariaria market area.

6. There is an unoccupied brand new “Aba Mall” in Osisioma LGA done by private investors under the preceding administration that has been waiting for at least a segment of Ariaria market traders to move to and allow for full, partial or phased reconstruction of Ariaria market.

7. Under the watch of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, some internal Roads in Ariaria were rehabilitated and new drains constructed to evacuate storm water through the new 6.5km underground drainage pipe done by the administration but the traders continue to block the internal drains by dumping wastes into them and putting up makeshift trading structures on the path.

If the prediction of heavy rainfall and flooding of Osisioma Ngwa area from hydrological and meteorological agencies hold true then Ariaria International Market and surrounding communities will definitely be heavily impacted.

Rather than hire pay per publication photographers to share real and fake dramatic flood pictures from the market, tne traders need to work with the government to ensure immediate evacuation to any of the alternative markets, or, in the least, commence immediate desilting of gutters and removal of illegal structures built on drainage ways.

Aside from the work already done at the Ifeobara-Faulks Road area, the Ikpeazu administration also moved to solve the perennial flooding challenge at the Ndiegoro axis by partnering with the World Bank to commence the ongoing N27.4bn flood control project that includes total reconstruction of Ngwa, Obohia, Ohanku and Uratta roads with a spur to PH Road as well as a massive underground drainage through Ngwa road to Aba Waterside. That is by far the biggest, the most ambitious and the most audacious effort made to solve the perennial Ndiegoro flooding problem that made late Chief Sam Mbakwe weep because of neglect by the federal government.

Unless Ariaria traders heed the warning from federal and state agencies and do the needful today, there will likely be more dramatic pictures from Ariaria area in the coming days and years. As we say in Igbo land, “Ukpana okpoko gburu nti tiri ya”, will definitely apply.

Abia State Government is ever ready to support long term solutions to the Ariaria flooding challenge with a ready plan to humanely relocate the traders without causing undue hardship to our people.

For now, it is to the credit of the government that while the administration has not been able to stop heavy rains from falling in Aba we have ensured that less than an hour after the heaviest of rains, flood water will seamlessly follow the newly constructed drains scattered around Aba to the natural storm water collection point in Aba Waterside.

If this is truly the real situation in Aba then no one should put the whole blame of the sorry state of ariaria market on ikpeazu. If it where to be a very radical governor like hell rufai he would have since used soildiers to bulldoze the whole market down even if the traders refused to relocate their goods.

Until we hear from the traders too;we can't judge

fergie001:
kalu61....Please run down here.

My brother, what do you want me to say. On the climatic condition of aba and rainforest, l agree. The mall at osisioma is true but not as big to accommodate ariria Market. The faulks road they constructed using local contractor is bad now withing two years.

They is no sincerity by the government making the traders not to fall for their baits. blockages of drainage system by traders is true too. Everybody got their share of blame but the Abia state government now and before has failed Abians.

kalu61:
My brother, what do you want me to say. On the climatic condition of aba and rainforest, l agree. The mall at osisioma is true but not as big to accommodate ariria Market. The faulks road they constructed using local contractor is bad now withing two years.

They is no sincerity by the government making the traders not to fall for their baits. blockages of drainage system by traders is true too. Everybody got their share of blame but the Abia state government now and before has failed Abians.

That Faulks road...is it that the road can never ever be constructed properly?

I left A Bee A in 2014, and that road was terrible and I still gather it still is, so what is really the problem of that road?

fergie001:

That Faulks road...is it that the road can never ever be constructed properly?

I left A Bee A in 2014, and that road was terrible and I still gather it still is, so what is really the problem of that road?

Faulks road is ok now. No flooding, and it is now connected to Aba-Portharcourt expressway.

beautiful

B2mario:


Faulks road is ok now. No flooding, and it is now connected to Aba-Portharcourt expressway.

If that's the case, commendable.

That place down Ukwu-mango na wahala those days.