Kingsbuchi:
It's unfortunate that you deliberately chose to be useless and senile. You exhibit all the xtics of inferiority complex. Nobody is envious of Anambra. Imo has a lot of bragging rights but are silent about it. Out every 100 married women in my Vila in Orlu, 30are from Anambra but no noise about it. I don't know why you always choose to use divisive statements to score cheap supremacist points..
You must be an efulefu planted in Igboland to cause division amongst Igbos..
You are indeed senseless..

Chinedu Desmond alaegbu aka chino is a certified loser. He sleeps on nairaland in order to abuse igbos from imo, ebonyi with his silly anambra superiority game. Ignore the bastrd. He was dropped off at Upper iweka by one aboki and is trying to claim anambra heritage by fire by force. I expect someone to locate this nitwit one day and give him the beating he deserves.

Chino the basRd child of an aboki doing iron condemn for Onitsha. You are a failure in life and are so jobless you spend every waking hour on nairaland. I can see ny abuse do n enter and give you high blood pressure. Let me repeat. You are a certified piece of sht and a low IQ fool. :lol:

Chino the jobless fool posting every second on nairaland.

Poverty left you with the IQ of a five year old child. Save your stupidity to fool your mates with nothing upstairs. You don't know what is standard so stfu.

PROUDIGBO:


It’s only those familiar with the geo-political and ethno-religious inspired envy and hate that’s rife in Nigerian politics and governance that will be able to read between the lines and decipher the bad-belle, ill-wishes and derision in your post!

You’re comparing what Akwa-Ibom, Rivers, Delta, and Bayelsa are producing vis-a-vis what Anambra is producing, and you think that’s a fair comparison!? Not even minding the fact that a lot of the oil wells meant to be within Abia and Imo states were wickedly placed in Rivers state for the Ijaw to help the ‘owners of Nigeria’ ‘safeguard’ for them! THE COMMUNITIES WHERE THESE STOLEN OIL WELLS ARE LOCATED ARE 100% IGBO, SO WHAT’S THE JUSTIFICATION FOR PLACING THEM IN RIVERS IF NOT WICKEDNESS AND POLITICS OF HOLD-IGBO-DOWN, and so mofos like you can come online decades later to mock Ndigbo…..that we don’t produce any oil and gas, and that Alaigbo is a ‘barren’ land!

Dude, whether Anambra receives 1 billion or 3 billion a month or a year….it’s a 100% more than they used to receive! Just that alone is a positive result!

You are full of sht and are highly delusional. Rivers State has a substantial igbo population as does Delta which are two of the three highest oil producing states. Oil money has not made those places eden.

1east:
Mktinsight the demonic night owl, leave Anambra alone, all you do here is looking for any nonsense to spite Anambra so you can be happy. Anambra is receiving Billions In oil revenues already to the envy and frustration of evil people like you.

Billions? Stop lying. Of that 50 billion shared Anambra will get less than 1%. Go back to school primary school dropout.

globemoney01:

The main reason this guy hates obiano is because he tried to develop Anambra ahead of other states in SE. If Obiano had performed like Ikpeazu in Abia state this guy won't even bother discussing about him.
Has there every been any positive news from Anambra that he supported. This is for those that take him seriously with his half baked analysis.

No the main reason I hate Obiano is that he was a corrupt son of a gun and wasted allocation of over 1 trillion in 8 years with little to show for it. That substandard airport, substandard flyovers says everything about Obiano.

I like excellence and if I see it I will clap. But I I don't see it I will criticise. I an not a paid agent like some of you hungry dogs who have nothing doing in life.

Chikeluba25:
You are free to formulate any figure you want, N15bn, o
N400bn, or even N2bn. It does not change the fact that Anambra has start receiving 13% oil derivative.

The 13% derivation is based on volume of oil produced. Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta and Bayelsa produce over 1 million barrels per day over 100x what Anambra produces. Indeed in 2020 of the 420b shared Abia which produces around 3x of Anambra received just 5b. So Anambra will be lucky to get more than 1-3b as derivation.

Obaseki, PDP Nat’l Chair Commission 700-Capacity Park Terminal In Benin
By THEWILL_ -March 11, 2022

March 11, (THEWILL) – The Edo State government on Thursday, commissioned the Benin Central Park Terminal, an ultra-modern 700-bus capacity facility, to bring a new lease of life to the city’s transport scene and ensure an efficient commute service in the metropolis..

The Commissioning of the facility, located at the Obakhavbaye axis of Ring Road, in Benin City, was led by the State governor, Godwin Obaseki and the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen (Dr) Iyorchia Ayu.

The project is part of the government’s efforts to ensure an efficient transport service in the City centre.

Speaking to newsmen, Obaseki disclosed that three more ultra-modern bus terminals will be developed across different locations in the State.

According to the Governor, the government is systematically executing the newly-developed Edo transport master plan to improve the state’s transportation sector and ensure a modern, effective and efficient transport system.

He said, “We have undertaken a transportation study and decided to have several bus terminals, starting with the 700-capacity Benin Central Bus Terminal.

“We also have other projects in the transportation sector. We are building other bus terminals: One in Ehor, Uhunmwode Local Government Area (LGA), another is located at Aviale, in Etsako West LGA, while the other is being sited in Okpella, Etsako East LGA

“We also have challenges, which is why we hope and pray that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) produces the next president in 2023. A major artery that links the north with south, the Benin-Auchi Road, is now a death trap.”

“Apapa Port is congested and as part of our master plan, we are constructing and building a Benin City River Port. We have finished all the studies and are now raising the money to make Benin have the full complement of transportation services.”

PHOTO CAPTION

The newly commissioned 700-capacity Benin Central Bus Terminal, at Obakhavbaye axis of Ring Road, Benin City.

The idea was a good one but of course corruption is the order of the day in ANSG. Most cities have central bus parks which makes it more effective to maintain order and to collect taxes on tickets. The Soludo government should meet the terms of the agreement and build other central bus parks in Awka and Nnewi and ban buses from loading along expressways.

In Awka they need to move all buses away from the Unizik Junction axis towards Agu-Awka where there are larger land spaces. Buses can maintain their own parks but all passengers should go to central bus terminals to buy tickets and board.

abuzz33:
Court orders Anambra govt not to interfer in investor’s N500m Onitsha project
July 24, 2022
By Vincent Ujumadu, Awka

AN Anambra High Court sitting in Onitsha has ordered the state government to allow officials of Urban Transport Terminal Limited to operate the multi million naira motor park at the Upper Iweka area of the commercial city, pending the determination of a substantive suit on the matter.

The presiding judge, Justice Theophine Oguji, however fixed 25th October, 2022 for hearing the main suit.

Urban Transport Terminal Limited had sued the state government on the ground that it reneged on the agreement it signed with the company, arguing that following the action of the state government, financial institutions which guaranteed the N500 million loan invested in the project, had been on its neck, just as interest on the loan is accumulating.

Managing Director of the company, Chief Chuka Obiora in the suit no: 0/162/2021, demanded an interlocutory injunction restraining the state government and its agents from trespassing or occupying the terminal, pending the determination of the case.

Although the judge did not grant the interlocutory injucntion, he ordered both parties to maintain status quo ante bellum.

Giving the background to the case after the court sitting, Obiora said: “The company entered into Public, Private, Partnership (PPP) project with the Anambra State government to invest in the setting up of the ultramodern motor park at Upper Iweka in Onitsha and both formed a special purpose Vehicle (SPV) to drive the investment.

“The company, Urban Transport Terminal Limited, in the joint venture with government, registered the SPV with the Corporate Affairs Commission.

“The equity of Anambra State is 30% while that of UTT is 70%. Subsequently a terminal was developed at Upper Iweka and former Governor Willie Obiano inaugurated it.

“Essentially, the reason for the park was to decongest the Upper Iweka axis so that vehicles would no longer operate parks along the Head Bridge to Upper Iweka expressway. All commercial vehicles are to patronize the company to curb insecurity and give way to smooth traffic within the area. It was also meant to guarantee the government its revenue within that axis.

“The developer sourced for the funds and was to manage it, while the state government was expected to provide the necessary infrastructure to ensure smooth operation. Specifically, government was expected to force all commercial vehicles to make use of the motor park to decongest the area and ensure security of lives and property.

“Surprisingly, Anambra State government reneged in the agreement by failing to enforce vehicles to use the park. When the company saw that government officials were still allowing vehicles to operate along the express, it wrote about 80 letters intimating it of the ugly development.

“They wanted us to be remitting money to government when they had set up parks around our premises”.

According to Obiora , all the letters was responded to, adding that surprisingly, government officials chased away officials of the investor with a joint task force comprising the army, police and civil defence.

“Up till now, government is sorely operating in a park it did not invest any money, while the financial institutions that lent money to the investor are on its neck, with interest accumulating.

“Information reaching us is that government has sold all our property and dismantled the structures erected there in.

“It is unfortunate that government is enjoying proceeds from a property it did not invest any money and claiming that the property belongs to it.

“That is why we approached the court which has given an order directing the state government to maintain status quo ante belling. The governor, the attorney general of the state, SSG, Ministry of Transport, among others have all been served”.

An official of the state Ministry of Justice acknowledged the suit by the company, adding that government was studying it.

Court orders Anambra govt not to interfer in investor’s N500m Onitsha project
July 24, 2022
By Vincent Ujumadu, Awka

AN Anambra High Court sitting in Onitsha has ordered the state government to allow officials of Urban Transport Terminal Limited to operate the multi million naira motor park at the Upper Iweka area of the commercial city, pending the determination of a substantive suit on the matter.

The presiding judge, Justice Theophine Oguji, however fixed 25th October, 2022 for hearing the main suit.

Urban Transport Terminal Limited had sued the state government on the ground that it reneged on the agreement it signed with the company, arguing that following the action of the state government, financial institutions which guaranteed the N500 million loan invested in the project, had been on its neck, just as interest on the loan is accumulating.

Managing Director of the company, Chief Chuka Obiora in the suit no: 0/162/2021, demanded an interlocutory injunction restraining the state government and its agents from trespassing or occupying the terminal, pending the determination of the case.

Although the judge did not grant the interlocutory injucntion, he ordered both parties to maintain status quo ante bellum.

Giving the background to the case after the court sitting, Obiora said: “The company entered into Public, Private, Partnership (PPP) project with the Anambra State government to invest in the setting up of the ultramodern motor park at Upper Iweka in Onitsha and both formed a special purpose Vehicle (SPV) to drive the investment.

“The company, Urban Transport Terminal Limited, in the joint venture with government, registered the SPV with the Corporate Affairs Commission.

“The equity of Anambra State is 30% while that of UTT is 70%. Subsequently a terminal was developed at Upper Iweka and former Governor Willie Obiano inaugurated it.

“Essentially, the reason for the park was to decongest the Upper Iweka axis so that vehicles would no longer operate parks along the Head Bridge to Upper Iweka expressway. All commercial vehicles are to patronize the company to curb insecurity and give way to smooth traffic within the area. It was also meant to guarantee the government its revenue within that axis.

“The developer sourced for the funds and was to manage it, while the state government was expected to provide the necessary infrastructure to ensure smooth operation. Specifically, government was expected to force all commercial vehicles to make use of the motor park to decongest the area and ensure security of lives and property.

“Surprisingly, Anambra State government reneged in the agreement by failing to enforce vehicles to use the park. When the company saw that government officials were still allowing vehicles to operate along the express, it wrote about 80 letters intimating it of the ugly development.

“They wanted us to be remitting money to government when they had set up parks around our premises”.

According to Obiora , all the letters was responded to, adding that surprisingly, government officials chased away officials of the investor with a joint task force comprising the army, police and civil defence.

“Up till now, government is sorely operating in a park it did not invest any money, while the financial institutions that lent money to the investor are on its neck, with interest accumulating.

“Information reaching us is that government has sold all our property and dismantled the structures erected there in.

“It is unfortunate that government is enjoying proceeds from a property it did not invest any money and claiming that the property belongs to it.

“That is why we approached the court which has given an order directing the state government to maintain status quo ante belling. The governor, the attorney general of the state, SSG, Ministry of Transport, among others have all been served”.

An official of the state Ministry of Justice acknowledged the suit by the company, adding that government was studying it.

Omanambala:


You underestimate Soludo's intelligence. What makes you think Soludo who has succeeded everywhere would not succeed as a governor ? Relax.... follow my lead , bro and you will never get lost. Soludo will transform Anambra and you can take it to the bank.

Okenye adiro aka nka na egwu oma agba. This is a man who transformed Nigeria banking industry and saved our financial fumbles.

His first strike showed me he will survive....

What is the first thing you do before cooking? You clean your space/kitchen. Well , Soludo is cleaning Anambra and that's a strong indicator of a man who is organized!

Governance requires ability to work across fields with detailed planning. Soludo is an economist and a theoretical one. Policy design is his forte. He needs an administrator to bring his grand visions of Taiwan Dubai to fruition else he will fail.

This is why Lawyers, doctors and engineers generally make good governors. Because they are very detail oriented. Fashola, Wike, Sullivan Chime, Umahi belong to these professions and you see the difference in their states. They can execute effectively.

One thing that has helped Soludo is his willingness to listen to advice and change course. He made mistakes with security but then changed course and the problem of unknown gunmen is now being fought successfully.

In terms of roads which is a 2-3 year venture Soludo needs to push everything through RCC whose roads last. They are already on ground in the state so moving machine of personnel is not an issue and they are experts in soil stabilisation and drainage. They can subcontract to Paul b and the rest but the standards must be there for state roads to last 15 years as elsewhere.

In the meantime, they need to do the simpler things to reduce destruction of roads.

1. Move large markets like Eke Awka away from the center of towns to the sides of expressways since heavy trailers destroy state roads. The weight of a truck carrying 500 bags of 50kg rice is 25 tonnes. Most state roads are not designed for the carrying capacity of these trucks or trailers carrying drinks.

2. Establish weighbridge near headbridge and at Amansea and tax all those trailers carrying goods with proceeds to go into a road fund for maintenance.

3. Ask FGN to remove checkpoints at Amawbia and mopol base and amansea. The weight of a long line of standing vehicles is breaking down the expressway and old road.

4. Require buses to park where there is reinforced concrete pavements with proper drainage.

These are engineering basics.

Omanambala:


I am guessing you didn't see Obaze's article on Obiano....lol.

Remember Obaze was Obiano's chief of staff. The man is as knowledgeable as Peter Obi....great portfolio. He was gonna replace Obi but didn't have a voter's card which disqualified him. This was why Obiano was called.

Obaze was the reason Obi was successful. He gave his administration direction not just making promises up and down. Every government needs an administrator as chief of staff, every chief executive needs a COO. Obiano put crooks around him who specialised in contract fraud. The typical Nigerian politician.


For Soludo jury is out but he is already making mistakes because he lacks a competent administrator in his cabinet who can organise things step by step for the administration. His team generally are inexperienced aside the commissioner for finance and commissioner for commerce and industry. The education lady was a mistake and should have been replaced. The works commissioner is making mistakes.

He should be very careful of going for a loan when his primary motivation is doing things in a hurry without the benefit of proper planning. Clearly he wants to settle the APGA vultures and get them out as well as show people that he is doing something. But the danger is we sink into a deeper hole.

Soludo is not a detailed thinker and he should look for an administrator fast and not rush things.

Obiano – The Sandglass Metaphor, by Obaze
4 months ago

The sandglass is a befitting analogy for Gov. Willie Obiano’s eight years of governance of Anambra State.

By depiction, the sandglass is perceptibly colourful and efficient, yet a crude, coarse and fragile time-keeping instrument. Obiano’s government mimicked those traits. Despite Obiano’s governance disambiguation, and effective masking of frivolities with social media flourish, the only variable that mattered was time. In the fullness of time and by constitutional dictate, time ran out for Obiano. His sandglass came crashing, proving the transient nature of power and Plato’s contention that “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” Predictably, some trenchant apologists for Obiano’s government, whose unbridled tongues chanted “Willie is Working,” were among the first to chant “good riddance.”

I’m averse to gloating over another’s misfortunes. But on this particular issue, I was and remain an interested party. Anambra is my home state; and I’m invested in her well-being. I served and live I Anambra by choice. Undoubtedly, Obiano misruled Anambra. Terrible decisions were made, but he did so with the help of some enablers- APGA apparatchiks, some Anambra political elite, clergy, traditional rulers, sycophants, etc. As Obiano’s governance process unfolded, there were discernible movements without telling progress, as State resources were symmetrically siphoned from one spectrum to the other; from public to private coffers. Lamentably, when Anambra was being badly misgoverned those who should have spoken up, failed to speak truth to power or tell Gov. Obiano the inconvenient truth, lest they lose access to power or their munificent largess deriving therefrom.

These people obviously were not attuned to Martin Luther King’s admonishment that the, “Ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.”

When I left the Obiano Government on 8 June, 2015, I knew that his 15-month old government was a derailing. The telltale signs were obvious.

Impeachable acts combined freely with grand larceny. In the latter part of 2016, I made public my intentions to challenge Obiano for the governorship. On 20th December 2016, Obiano through a Catholic priest close to him offered an interlocutor a mind-boggling sum to get me to stand down. The offer was rejected. My position: Anambra was not for sale; and certainly was not Obiano’s to sell.

* Obaze

Since I separated from the Anambra government in 2015, even though I live in Awka, I have entered the Governor’s Lodge only once, for a one-on-one meeting with Governor Obiano, at 11am on 17 January 2017. At that meeting, I told Gov. Obiano why I was challenging him. The reasons were threefold: First, to protect the Anambra North mandate, which he held in trust. Second, to impress on him, that honest assessments of his first term rated him very poorly. And third, to forewarn him that absent immediate remedial measures, he and his spouse would likely to end up in the EFCC dragnet. Gov. Obiano did not seem to understand the import of the visit.

After all, we were schoolmates and also friends. Neither did he grasp my felt obligation to rescue him and Anambra. He asked if there was still anything he could do to dissuade me from running. I said there was nothing. He then boasted that he will be re-elected, “even if it means emptying the Anambra Treasury.” I was shocked. However, I made him a promise: “I will not personally attack you during the campaign. Neither will my staff. Also, if you win re-election, I will not publicly comment on activities of your government for good or for bad.” On that note we parted company. He was re-elected. I kept my promise.

Ever since, till this day, the only other time we directly engaged each other, besides occasional perfunctory exchange of pleasantries at functions, was during the governorship debate on 17 November 2017. During that debate, when I said the Obiano government was the “most fiscally reckless” in Anambra State’s history, it was no hyperbole. Obiano inherited over N75 billion, earned N2 Trillion in revenue, but left Anambra State an estimated N400 million in cash reserve and N109 billion in debts, plus other contingent liabilities.

A leader is as good as his advisers. Simply, Obiano amassed a coterie of bad advisers – formal and informal. They had his ears; and the King’s ear is a powerful instrument. So he held incessant court and they pandered to his ego and proclivities. Several of his earliest advisers could not have passed rigorous security background checks, given their respective erstwhile roles in the financial sector. Some of his loyalists contrived paper contracts, projects and bogus certificates as conduits for fleecing Anambra State. The Local Government Joint Account was the most bastardized. Checks and balances were farfetched between and betwixt. But for an airport, conference centre and three flyovers, Obiano and his cohorts in eight years squandered Anambra State’s wealth and legacy.

They sold off the state’s fiscal and real estate assets and abandoned many projects.

The unprecedented fate that has befallen the Obianos since leaving office is saddening and calls for empathy. It was all avoidable. But most of Obiano’s kinsmen and minders would not think otherwise. Most knew little or nothing about good governance, and nepotism and groupthink mentality rendered them unresponsive to good governance tutelage or due process. Those who spoke truth to power became traducers – whilst liars, cheats and scofflaws held sway over policy, programmes and project decisions and willfully hijacked the State’s internally generated revenue and fiscal instruments. Under Obiano’s watch various communities were put asunder via meddlesome executive fiats. State security was achieved at extraordinary costs.

I don’t know if history will be kind to Gov. Obiano or as unkind as it has been to Gov. Chinwoke Mbadinuju. But I’m conscious that the enormity of fate that has befallen Anambra will unfurl slowly. While the visible, broken and decrepit infrastructures are evident; the moral and fiscal rut are more insidious. A popular Anambra State Catholic priest once asked me in a closed door meeting, why I always sounded angry when I spoke about Obiano’s government failings. I told him it was nothing personal, but that if he knew what I knew about Obiano’s degenerate governance modalities, he would also be justifiably angry. That collective anger is already manifesting.

I am as guilty as every other Anambra person who helped to elect Obiano governor. I voted for him in 2014, because like him, I am from Anambra North. But those who contributed to his 2017 re-election and thus sustained his shambolic governance should admit their role. While Obiano will inevitably bear the brunt of the criticisms for his government, he is not entirely responsible for all the governance mishaps. What he cannot escape is the vicarious and command responsibility for what happened on his watch. The upshot is that Obiano was an incidental leader thrown up by the vagaries of Anambra partisan politics. He was not ready for leadership, and his official and personal demeanors were fraught with leadership hubris. During his second term, the ceremony of innocence was drowned (apologies to Yates). That is passé. But as deep as the unfolding ironies are, so too are the deeply painful lessons learned, and missed opportunities.

Anambra has a new government. A successor is in place. Now, Anambra’s arrested development needs to be fixed. Her governance tasks will be doubly difficult, considering how badly broken Anambra is. We can only offer our collective prayers that those elected and appointed to officialdom in Anambra, will henceforth put Anambra’s interests above personal, sectarian, clan and other primordial interests.

investnow2013:
Point on the Loan Request;

Much of the progress needed in Anambra State cannot happen without solid infrastructural base, especially the transport system. How do you start addressing the huge infrastructure decay and demand by citizens without borrowing in the short term?

Already government is drastically reducing the cost of governance, instilling the culture of prudence and value-for-money; addressing insecurity head-on, digitizing the revenue collection system to increase coverage and reduce leakages (to increase internal revenue over time), recruiting thousands of teachers and doctors; embarking upon aggressive urban renewal; to implement massive youth empowerment etc.

In the short term, debt is required to break the “trap” but with every kobo of money borrowed devoted to infrastructure financing and bankable projects — and fully serviceable from the IGR flows.

The government is embarking upon a massive reform of the internal revenue system. What is actually needed is about N250 billion, but N100 billion in the first instance, and future borrowing (if needed) will be contingent upon internal revenue growth and debt sustainability analysis.

That’s the pathway to transformation and growth in the face of a literally empty treasury and Oil revenue down to zero with statutory allocation barely able to pay salaries. Attached is page 54 of Soludo's manifesto and his thoughts on funding options.

-- Mazi Ejimofor

They should probe and prosecute Obiano and his band of looters. How do you consistently have 50 billion year in and year out for 8 years and the only thing you have to show for it is awka flyovers cost 13 billion, icc cost 10 billion, airport cost 30 billion, oil rig bridge 5 billion, omambala bridge 15 billion. Where is the other 300 billion?

Obaze was right after all.

investnow2013:
CONTRACTORS MUST WORK DAY AND NIGHT TO CLEAN ANAMBRA.

Kennedy Aniedozie

Awka, 7th July 2022(MOI) The Anambra state commissioner of Environment, Engr Felix Odimegwu urges contractors engaged to evacuate wastes in all the 21 Local Government Areas in the state to work round the clock.

Speaking with journalists immediately after the inauguration of the newly constituted, Anambra State Waste Management(ASWAMA) board in the Exco chamber of the Governor's office.

The commissioner, made it known that Mr.Governor, Prof.Chukwuma Soludo is result orientated and doesn't want excuses.so contractors must work in line with his mission statement in creating a liveable, clean, and green Urban dwelling in Anambra state.

In his words, Engr Felix reiterates that all the contractors engaged must work day and night to clean up the state because Anambra is having a population explosion due to its commercial activities. Therefore, waste evacuation must be properly managed because we generate waste in all our activities.

The commissioner made it known that the ministry has created a weekly chart report where all the activities of each contractor will be recorded and any contractors failing to meet up with the percentage of work given will have their contract terminated."

"It is no longer business as usual when contractors would be given award letters and you think there won't be supervision.
" Personally, my eagle eyes are everywhere monitoring your routine of work because we have created the places of refuse evacuation based on constituencies for easy assessments."

"For investors to invest in Anambra state
the state must look clean, healthy, and green so that development partners will give Mr.Governor , Prof.soludo pass mark at the global level.

They are going about it the wrong way to show how once again he got his appoimtment at ASWAMA wrong. Appointing big contractors is the wrong way to go about it other than evacuating waste from markets. The state government needs to establish depots, incinerators and landfills around cities and then buy waste by volume. Entrepreneurs will bring the waste to them. At the same time they need to charge every single commercial entity waste fees - market stalls, shops, restaurants, hotels, multi tenant buildings.

PROUDIGBO:


It’s not easy to invite top officials of foreign embassies and high commissions to your state…and they honour your invitation! They must have a lot of respect for the Governor! It’s for moments like this that i’m thankful the airport was built!

Hopefully, by now the state gov’t has done the necessary landscaping on the airport road and in and around the airport! First impressions count!

It's not difficult either. But Soludo needs to do less PR grandstanding and more actual work. Development agencies allocate money to projects that meet their goals which in most cases revolve around health, education, environment and gender. The question for Soludo is does he have capable hands in those ministries? And its not just PhD title but experience in program design and management. Already he appointed an uncouth woman as education minister. The rest remains to be seen.

Page 1,000 with 30% full of abuses by the agbero with 100 monikers.

PROUDIGBO:


You're also right that Igbo criminal elements have also taken advantage of the near lack of GENUINE AND HONEST police/security presence in the south-east....and this is the case in every region of the country! There are pockets of areas in every region that lack this genuine security presence, and criminality was bound to step in and fill the void as nature abhors a vacuum!

Regarding the ekpa dude....just forget that fool! Either he's been compromised by the same forces responsible (both by omission and commission) for the insecurity in the south-east...or he's very daft not to see he's being used by these malevolent forces to cause insecurity in his region while he sits in comfort in Finland!

This wave of insecurity is sponsored and Soludo is not going to get anywhere using the conventional way. He was very stupid to have gone to see Nnamdi Kanu. His first stop should have been going with the other governors of SE to see Buhari and the army chiefs. They should hammer out a special military operation sanctioned by the 5 governors to weed out criminals and cultists.

The influx of weapons in people's portends no good for the state. If Soludo is not careful the next victim will be even closer to him than the House of assembly man. Already business is collapsing in the wave of insecurity.

Mega2biz:
Dubai estate, one of the amazing developing estates in Awka is turning out superb


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q58LkNaNITE

Estate without tarred roads, pavements, electricity and drainage. The only planned estate is awka millenium

NoQualmz:


Never seen a state capital as Awka. Too much govt neglect or could it be that the pple are to blame for its present outlook. Streets are very dirty,untarred roads here and there.,rascals and touts parading the streets with reckless abandon,Open drainage and leaking drainage from houses. Landowners are not bothered,town unions are not bothered,President Generals are on ghost mode. Only in Awka,the state capital. Ndi öka speak out!

First the positives on Awka. Its relatively small and dense so it's easier to build roads. It's also undulating so with sensible drainage, it's easy to discharge water. The negatives of Awka are the lawless motor parks, keke riders and markets which the government has allowed and encouraged. All the breeding grounds for touts is around transport and the markets.

To transform awka the govt has to ensure all parks are walled off and ban side road loading. All buses must register with a park and have an authorized route plan with established stops or not operate. It has to get rid of keke from all the major roads and junctions. Zik Ave, Oby Okoli, Ifite. The only buses allowed should be 14 seater buses with chinese shuttle buses phased out slowly.

The eke awka market should be scaled down in phases. The frontage buildings adjoing the corner of zik ave and Arthur eze should be removed immediately leaving a setback with parking replacing it . The entrance to the market should be further back near St Mary's Church. New markets should be established in okpuno and ifite with proper planning for entry/exit and parking and security.

A special mobile vigilante unit should be established to arrest touts and financed by market and transport levies.

AmericanQuarter:


Amy update on the Bayern stuff?

I understand that Soludo asked Bayern to setup an academy in Anambra but truly that is not Bayerns job but Anambra states. They should get some of the ex SE players to help design and set it up. Emenalo has experience with Chelsea and could offer advice as well as Amunike. The academy is like a school. The recouping comes from player contracts which is significant over an 8-10 year period. An academy could technically receive 10% or more of future transfer fees. Chelsea has received over 200 million pounds since 2015 from players in its youth academy. So a reasonably successful academy in Nigeria could make at least 20% of this. But the investment on players in terms of unearthing talent, teaching football fundamentals and proper nutrition and physio is significant.

The state should do the same for Basketball by providing proper courts and competition.

investnow2013:
A very poor and archaic design .Our only hope now is for the new govt of Soludo to intervene to correct this anomalies.!. Udo dili unu!

Very archaic designed by imbeciles. A market design should encompass walling, water supply, parking, warehouses, conveniences, movement of shoppers, not 10x10 shops. A market offering everything does not make sense for a town the size of Awka. Its almost like Walmart building one gigantic superstore in a city not 10. To cater to Awka metropolitan it is better they build at least 4 markets. Relocate Eke to Agu-Awka, relocate the Ifite Market to a new virgin land at Ifite closer to school gate, wall off Nkwo Amaenyi from the road, and build another market at Okpuno.

IGBOSON1:
The Soludo admin' should look into this! It's annoying when the bleeding obvious has to be pointed out when supposedly there are people appointed/employed to take care of this sort of thing!

Please, everyone should do their job well and not have to wait until their shortcomings are pointed out on social-media before swinging in to action! The Governor has enough on his plate as it is without having to do the job of civil servants and appointees as well!

Clip courtesy BVI Channel 1: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6DLDbez3xSumcU0VkSoR5Q


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

Eastern government is full of a lot of dummies. If you are doing waste management why drop large receptacles on roads? Lagos with its millions of people don't do it. Nor Abuja or Port Harcourt which generate far more waste. This stupid idea started with Sullivan Chime in Enugu who Obi now copied and the rest is history.

Soludo should go study how waste collection by private operators is done house to house while government collects waste tax and provides depots.

While they are at it, they better start tarring inner roads in cities.

The way you handle this kind of tenant is you go to a customary court to claim the arrears of rent plus mesen interest. Those cases take less than a month to conclude and the tenant will run once he is served the notice. If he runs, open a police case on him on theft and pursue it to the end so other tenants will fall in line.

IGBOSON1:
There's a dearth of developmental news coming out of Anambra state.....both gov't and private sector initiatives. I think the Soludo admin' needs to employ some young Anambra graduates to handle its social media public relations so we can get updates like what was doing for the Obiano admin'.

I know some bastards have been busy trying to distract and make life uncomfortable for the new Soludo admin' (out of pure hate and envy as far as i'm concerned)......probably the same bastards responsible for attacking one of his campaign meetings in which two policemen were killed! However, governance should still go on and we need to hear of developments in the state. So far, all i can point to is the Okpoko clean-up and appointment of commissioners. By now i was expecting the state gov't to have kickstarted some suggested funds generating initiatives so its diasporans and well-wishers can invest in the state! Very soon, the 100 days in office milestone would be reached.

Soludo is going about things properly. Security top of the agenda. They should bring back community vigilantes and recruit intelligence officers. There are no unknown gunmen. Those boys buy food, recharge card, have girlfriends and wives. They all have criminal backgrounds. Look hard enough you will find them. I wish Soludo will go see the Israelis or the US for assistance. In six months they will profile and geolocate all these criminals. There shouldn't be amnesty for killers.

Secondly, he should setup a road fund by metropolitan area. One part should come from FAAC allocation, one part should come from levies on business and property and one part should come from donations.

Onitsha with over 50,000 commercial buildings should levy 100,000 per building or 5b for Onitsha roads, the state should kick in a matching amount or 10b per year for Onitsha roads. 10b will build at least 20km of road per year. Same goes for Awka which is half the size. All should be transparent.

The state govt also needs to regulate and relicense all commercial transport operators. Their vehicles must be inspected every year for roadworthiness, insurance and all drivers must be identified and have valid driving license and be traceable. Bus parks should be created and keke should be phased out in cities over a 4 year period for bigger higher capacity 15-20 seater buses with entry doors and boarding aisles not toyota minibuses.

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Ozu! Efulefu! Poverty must be beating you there.

ANSMEDIA:
Hillview Estate Onitsha

The Anambra State Housing Development Corporation,has removed structures at Hillview Estate, Nkwelle-Ezunaka erected in contravention of structural codes guiding development in the area

The team, led by the Head, Development Control of the Corporation, Mr Ben Nwofor, said that the developers of affected structures failed to follow the mandatory consent for structural development issued by Anambra State Government through the Anambra State Housing Development Corporation.



Correspondent Blessing Uchendu reports that the enforcement team comprise officials of Anambra State Housing Development Corporation, and security agents, among others.

On arrival at the estate, it was discovered that structures were either erected on roadsides, waterways or private property.

The team leader, Mr Nwofor, in an interview, said that the Board’s mandate is to ensure controlled development across the estate, pointing out that the erected structures contravene the building code existing in the estate drawing.



He disclosed that the Board issued directives to developers of the structures against building without the approval plan and wondered why they defied the order and advised developers in that estate to have a rethink.

On her part, a surveyor with the Anambra State Housing Development Corporation, Mrs Oluebube Godwin, said that the reason for the approvals is to ensure that projects are appropriately sited. UPSOT

Hillview Estate is managed by Anambra State Housing Development Corporation.

To control haphazard development all building engineers on projects in Anambra should be licensed. To be licensed they must submit professional qualifications and take an exam in person which should include knowledge of Anambra and federal building laws. The license must be renewed every 5 years. They must provide a license when a building plan is submitted. Failure to adhere to plan and state should cancel the license of the building engineer and prosecute the landlord with cost of structural removal and jail time.

Grgton:
this is not the problem of the government; people should stop behaving like pigs.. how can you trade, eat, sleep on top of dirty SMH. .. soludo really exposed how dirty Anambraberians are ... .

In any lawless environment people will trade anyhow and dirty up the place. The state government should take back control of the markets and hire security to stamp out street trading in front of them and along the sides. They should put in place waste systems for markets not waste bins on roads on entrances.

Cholls:
My brother I cover my ass in Jesus name

Not Catholic. Anglican priests can marry.

gariepinus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Jm7UZQtVU



Watch it..e don happened.. I Said it that the people who are killing, kidnapping and destroying properties of Anambra people are common criminals from another south eastern States.. E don happen.. Many of them have been captured.. %85 captured are from Ebonyi State (Abakaliki) %15 from Imo....
The worst part of this is that this common criminals hide under Biafra agitators to commit all this atrocities. They hv different hide out in Anambra state where they stay to unleash attack in different parts of the state..criminal who are never freedom fighters.. They have killed and kidnapped many NdiAnambra.. I swear Abakaliki people don't hv done more harm to Anambra people at home..while our people in Ebonyi are there as good brother's and sister's.. Assisting them to develope Abakaliki.. Not killing and causing havoc.. This is Sacrilege

One should not be surprised that ebonyi boys are behind the mayhem in Anambra. Who else lives in the bushes and in rural villages in Anambra? Who else has flooded the state in huge numbers and forms a significant number of the poor rabble rousing core in the state trading on highways, pushing barrow, farming in the villages and selling in the cities? Ebonyi people has a reputation for killing people without remorse and they have brought that bloodlust and heartlessness to Anambra.

Anambrarians who were giving these people free shelter in Aguata, Orumba, Awka North, Idemili to safe guard their country homes should think again. The state needs to take back the markets and bus parks and control keke, okada, shuttle.

stanluiz:
Is either soludo wastes those Terrorist Igbos or Igbos will make Anambra state a hell for him.

If Soludo want to succeed as a governor, he needs to disloged Igbos will maximum brutal force. The remaining surviving ones will Anambra state will ran away.

But Soludo is already showing a sign of weakness and cowardice thereby giving Igbos the morale to unleash terror in Anambra state while he is still speaking grammar.

Soludo need to be street wise as a governor. It is time to declare military curfews and operation in Anambra South for multiple days for the Army to exterminate them. Wike did it in oyigbo and it pays.

Governor soludo. This is the time for action. If you can't fight the insecurity in Anambra, it means you are already started failing as a governor.

Drop that you useless negotiating rubbish and exterminate these Terrorists and criminals.

To dislodge these criminals he has to get intelligence experts in. He is setting up committees instead of hiring intelligence experts to comb through local communities and identify where these boys have their hideouts. They don't live in thin air. They need drones to take aerials to find out abnormal presence of people, cars or movements. They can mine phone networks to discover unusual usage especially in rural areas.

There are tons of Anambrarians in the FBI, CIA, DSS ready and willing to help Soludo and he is there relying on committees of bianca and charly boy.