seunmsg:


The seaports are being funded by private investors in collaboration with the state governments. If south east governors fail to look for private investors to collaborate with and develop the needed seaports in the region, while blame others?

Do you want Lagos, Rivers, Cross River and Delta state government to go and look for private investors to fund seaport development in the south east or what? The Onitsha monorail that was designed and started by Peter Obi in 2010 around the same time Lagos state started the blue railway line, where is it today? Why blame FG always instead of your useless governors?

Godfullsam:


You should be more worried that not a single deep sea project was approved/on going in the south east.

LOVEALAIGBO:


Quit being a smartass! A state like Lagos is attracting a disproportionate amount of investments over and above other cities owing to the pro-Yoruba/Fulani and anti-Igbo political-economy in place from the late 60s to date! The federal gov’t invested more of Nigerias’ commonwealth in Lagos than any other city in Nigeria….probably besides Abuja! So how TF do you expect self-made cities like Onitsha, Aba, Enugu, Calabar, etc, to compete in attracting the same level of investments with the likes of Lagos!? Calabar own is particularly instructive in that it almost has a similar aqua-geographical layout like Lagos and, as we’re told, was once the capital of Nigeria! So why hasn’t Calabar attracted even half of the attention and investments that Lagos attracts!?

Fact of the matter is Lagos has been so favoured by successive hegemonic gov’ts and their partners to the extent that it can now afford to drive its own development on its own steam!

And let us not forget that there’s more going to certain regions, states and businesses than what is out there in the open! Nigeria is a massively corrupt and unjust society that a greedy, nepotistic, bigoted and hateful president can covertly favour certain regions/cities while cheating others! I’m sure you’ve read of all the extra funding certain northern states are getting from international donor agencies and financial institutions! I’m sure you read the report when Buhari unofficially told the then president of the World Bank to favour northern Nigeria in any financial grants it intends to make! Of course this was soon forgotten because Nigerians are generally a docile people with a very short attention span!! I also don’t need to remind you of the evil allocation formula that sees states get a larger share of federal allocation based on useless landmass and ojoro population numbers!

Onitsha river port, just like we saw with the 2nd Niger Bridge, is being used to fool Ndigbo and make it look like we’re getting ‘ investments and attention’ from the federal gov’t! As we speak, they’re still blowing grammar on the matter with no sign of port activities commencing anytime soon!

Only a dishonest person will see the way Ndigbo are being cheated with their own hydrocarbon resources: Anambras’ battle to get its fair share of oil derivation payments that hitherto were being paid to Delta state; how hydrocarbon-rich portions of our territory were sliced out and placed in Rivers state for non-Igbos to control in trust for the ruling hegemony; deliberate ignoring or underinvesting in proven hydrocarbon-rich fields in the south-east while billions of dollars are spent searching for the elusive stuff in the north; the complete refusal of the federal gov’t to look in the direction of coal exploitation and use (we all know why don’t we!?); and the complete culling of Ndigbo and Alaigbo from top-level gov’t oil and gas administration and governance (can anyone remember when last a Igbo was minister of petroleum or head of NNPC…or recall if any oil and gas regulatory headquarters is sited anywhere in the south-east!?)……only a dishonest person would have knowledge of these facts, yet still argue Ndigbo have not been cheated in the governance and political-economy of Nigeria!

Events unfolding these past 4+ months have exposed the so called ‘action team’ that governed Lagos from 1999 to 2007 to be a bunch of overhyped, clueless and visionless administrators (and in their case, i use the term ‘administrators’ quite loosely) who used the socio-economic advantages of Lagos to garner unmerited praise and commendation for themselves!

LOVEALAIGBO:


And this post of yours says all that needs to be said about 'one Nigeria' and how some are using it to work against Igbo/south-east interests! So long as a disproportionate amount of investments and federal funds are channelled towards your region while Ndigbo are denied their fair share, all is well with the world abi!?

seunmsg:


The seaports are being funded by private investors in collaboration with the state governments. If south east governors fail to look for private investors to collaborate with and develop the needed seaports in the region, while blame others?

Do you want Lagos, Rivers, Cross River and Delta state government to go and look for private investors to fund seaport development in the south east or what? The Onitsha monorail that was designed and started by Peter Obi in 2010 around the same time Lagos state started the blue railway line, where is it today? Why blame FG always instead of your useless governors?

LOVEALAIGBO:


Quit being a smartass! A state like Lagos is attracting a disproportionate amount of investments over and above other cities owing to the pro-Yoruba/Fulani and anti-Igbo political-economy in place from the late 60s to date! The federal gov’t invested more of Nigerias’ commonwealth in Lagos than any other city in Nigeria….probably besides Abuja! So how TF do you expect self-made cities like Onitsha, Aba, Enugu, Calabar, etc, to compete in attracting the same level of investments with the likes of Lagos!? Calabar own is particularly instructive in that it almost has a similar aqua-geographical layout like Lagos and, as we’re told, was once the capital of Nigeria! So why hasn’t Calabar attracted even half of the attention and investments that Lagos attracts!?

Fact of the matter is Lagos has been so favoured by successive hegemonic gov’ts and their partners to the extent that it can now afford to drive its own development on its own steam!