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nedu666:
Soludo is and as always being a proud man who thinks he knows it all. Even when he talks you can see the arrogance and I know it all mentality. That man narration is everywhere. Literally it demarkets Soludo as an incompetent person. Do you know what it means to say a governor said there is no money to buy fuel for security patrols aimed at fighting insecurity. For dss and police to say they are ready to work but Soludo is not forthcoming. Even if it is made up, the narrative coupled with the fact Soludo is doing nothing not even addressing the people shows incompetence

Soludo only appoints people he can lecture to and control.

The weakness of kidnap gangs is transport and telecommunications. It's not like Anambra has roads all over the place. There are few artery roads. Yet police cannot monitor vehicular movements. Then every phone is trackable right down to 5 sqm.

With the right technology it should not be difficult to clamp down on armed gangs, kidnap for ransom and gun runners. Anambra is 4,000 sqkm only. But that this is happening is a failure of policing.

I would not trust DSS or NPF. Taking down kidnap for ransom gangs there are lots of contract military mercenaries all over the world. They have the surveillance technology, the tracking and no sentimental attachment. There are Israelis, South African, Russian outfits that can eliminate these nuisances.

EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian Businessman Recounts Days Of Horror In Anambra Kidnappers' Den, Narrates How Abductors Murdered Victims, Trafficked Human Organs

January 9, 2025

A businessman who was kidnapped alongside Catholic Reverend Father Nonso in Anambra State has shared a harrowing account of their ordeal.


The two were held captive for a week without food or water, and the businessman claims that the government and security agencies did nothing to help them.

In a leaked telephone conversation, the businessman alleged that the State Director of the Department of State Services told him that they were ready to work but lacked the funds to do so. He also criticised Governor Chukwuma Soludo for not taking action to address the state's security challenges.

The businessman's account is particularly disturbing, as he describes witnessing people being killed and their organs harvested and sold to traffickers.


He also claims that the Enugu State government helped track their location, but the police refused to rescue them.



This incident highlights the severe security issues plaguing Anambra State. According to reports, the state has experienced a surge in kidnapping and armed attacks, with many attributing the violence to poor governance and lack of effective security measures.

The businessman's experience also raises concerns about corruption and the perceived lack of accountability within the security forces.

SaharaReporters reported on January 1, 2025 that the Spiritual Director of Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, Anambra State, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, popularly known as “Father Ebube Muonso” narrated how he paid N1 million to mobilise the police to rescue a priest and colleague, Rev. Fr. Nonso, who was kidnapped and spent a week at his captors’ den in a forest.

Giving his eyewitness account, the businessman who spoke in Igbo said: "...when they shot these people, I realised that this is no longer a child's play. You see people bleeding from gunshot, and you also see those whose organs are being harvested. You will hear them saying cut this side and cut the order side. You see them cutting people's parts while they're alive."



He said he paid a ransom of N10.3 million and the Rev. Father paid over N20 million to regain his freedom. According to him, the kidnappers had wanted to release the Reverend Father but because they had a quarrel with Fr (Emmanuel) Obimma Ebube Muonso (parish priest in Dunukofia and the founder and head of Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry) on the phone, they decided to keep his friend priest to test his resolve.

He continued: "I put N10.3 million and I paid through my account but it is not about payment of ransom because there are people who paid money yet they were killed. Father paid over N20 million. They killed several people and there's a well there where some people who were killed were thrown. They poured some chemicals inside the well.

"We were in their den with the Harmattan cold on December 17, 18 and 19, 2024. They had an altercation with Father Obimma Ebube Muonso and one would think that the kidnappers would be afraid of being tracked but they were not afraid because they knew that Anambra State doesn't have adequate security.

“While they were talking with Father Ebube Muonso, the leader of the gang came and told the Rev Fr Nonso that he wanted to release him but he wanted to proof to Fr Ebube Muonso that they were not on the same level. He said they often see him but ignore him was because he is a Rev. Father but that will show him (Ebube Muonso). He even called their gang members in their various camps that if something happened, they should bring Ebube Muonso alive."

He continued, "If you see these small children carrying guns; if you think that they are Yahoo boys (internet fraudsters), they are no longer into that. They are now into kidnapping. If you see these people, they're carrying iPhone 13 like Yahoo boys. I was there and they were calling their girlfriends. We were there on the 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd of December - inside the bush with them. We didn't go to the toilet, we didn't eat and we didn't bathe. We didn't even brush our teeth. I didn't know that it is possible for someone to stay for three days without going to the toilet. It was on the night of December 24 that I was brought out like they usually did while we were there. They would bring people out and say move. The next thing they would do was shoot the person."

He stated that considering what he saw there, he was no longer thinking about his business.

"I no longer think of my business. I no longer think of my parents. This boy that has Dubai estate, you know he has been missing for over a month and there was no communication. So I was thinking: is this how people are being killed? If you see how body parts were being sold. There was a boy that wanted to escape, he told us one day when we were brought together that he had spent 21 days in the kidnapper's den and that the person brought with him had been killed."

The businessman stated that he slept beside the Rev father at night, adding they prayed for God's intervention but at every turn, it would appear that God wasn't going to answer their prayers.



Free At Last

But eventually, he and the cleric were allowed to go home.

He said, "We prayed intermittently and you don't talk there. So they asked the priest to hold me and we were moving in the bush. They told us that they would put us in the trunk of Toyota Venza, and that wherever they stopped and opened the trunk of the vehicle, I should come out and drive the Venza home, along with the Rev father. I don't know the owner of the Venza and I was asking myself whether I had come there to be gifted a Toyota Venza. I was also afraid because I had heard that there was someone who was burnt inside a car.

"So, they were going round the bush and when they got to a particular place, they stopped and opened the boot and asked me to take the key and drive the Venza home. They said there was enough fuel in it. Thereafter, they closed the boot, fired some shots and left. We drove for hours, looking for a way out of the bush. Before we got to Father's parish, it was round 1 am on December 25 (Christmas Day).



"When we finally found a road, I told Father that we should go to my house in Awka but he said we should go to Umudioka, his parish. That was how we went there and fortunately Father Ebube Muonso and his team were in adoration. They had just finished praying for us.

“People fled when they saw how fast we drove. They took us to the altar there. From there, they took us upstairs where we took our bath."

The businessman revealed how the family of the kidnapped member of the State House of Assembly representing Onitsha North called him to know whether he knew of his whereabouts.

"You know, that there was a House member that was kidnapped in Onitsha North; his people called me, asking whether I had any clue, I said I had no clue. They said the governor told them that there was nothing he could do. The wife of the man was crying on phone, begging to know if there anything I could tell them. The kidnappers had already asked for a ransom of N20 million and maybe they don't know that he's a lawmaker.

"Probably they didn't know about the person and when they discovered, they stopped calling the relations. Anambra is a joke now. Do you know that a lawmaker called me and said that we are in trouble. He said there was no single tracker in Anambra State and that the governor was waiting for people coming from Abuja to track the location of the Rev father.

"So Father Ebube Muonso called the governor of Enugu State. I don't know that the governor Enugu State is working but he doesn't talk, so he stayed in Enugu and tracked where we were kept and it was Urum because while we were there, a plane would intermittently fly over us. I thought this was going on around Ihiala; I didn't know it had reached Awka, the state capital.

"It wasn't like we were kept in secret room but we were in the bush and they were running it like a well-structured organisation. They cooked. I was afraid that we could be poisoned. From Urum, you get to Achalla, and from there, you get to Igbariam. So the governor of Enugu told the police in Anambra that they should go in and rescue us. And the police in Anambra said they would not enter the bush.

"It was by the divine grace of God that we made it alive considering the way people were killed there. I discovered that what attracts them is ‘big’ vehicles. The way it is in Anambra now is for one to look for a small car to drive. They come out for operation between 7pm and 8:30pm and they have various camps.

"So it is risky to drive from 7 pm to 8:30 pm or 9 pm. The roads are always busy then and that is when they kidnap people. The best time to get home is 6 pm or 6:30 pm; you enter your house. If there's something that made you to stay late in the night, you should wait till 11 pm to midnight before going home. At that time, they will not be in the road again."

On how Rev Fr Nonso was kidnapped, the businessman said he was kidnapped while trying to buy fuel.

He said, "The priest who returned from America and hails from Ojoto, went out to buy fuel and after that he stopped at a block industry - he was the former head of St. Kizito, a Catholic school, so he was telling somebody that he would cook to entertain the children in the school. Suddenly, a vehicle arrived there and the occupants started shooting.

"He was confused as it appeared to him like a movie, maybe he didn't understand that the security situation in Anambra had deteriorated, so the people with him ran away. They carried him with his car. My anger is that despite all the things happening in Anambra State, the police are not doing anything.

"State Director of Security Services otherwise known as Department of State Services (DSS) told me that they are willing to work but there's no money. He told me that during the December period, there were squads sent across the states in the country. He regretted that those sent to stay in Anambra spent two days and the governor told them that he didn’t have money for fuel and they went back."



The businessman revealed that when they went to Enugu State to thank the governor for his assistance, they were taken to a house where everything happening in Enugu State is being monitored. He wondered what the governor of Anambra state is doing with the allocations of Anambra state.

He said, "The whole tracking was done in the house and they even showed us where we were kept in the bush from the Enugu State Government House. At a point, they contemplated to deploy airstrike but Father Ebube Muonso was skeptical that they could kill innocent people in the process.

“We thanked the Enugu State Governor but Governor Soludo is toying with the people of Anambra State. It was by the divine grace of God that I went and came out alive. They collected my phone.”


When SaharaReporters contacted the Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga for his reaction, he simply said, "Thank you for the information."

I was talking to a friend who told me about how US intelligence recruited an Israeli firm to Crack a criminal rings communication.

It made me think that perhaps Anambra should recruit Israelis to gather intelligence and identify all the kidnap gangs and gunrunners operating in the state.

Eboofa:
Insecurity is the bane of Soludo administration!! I have always believed that attributing 100% of security challenges to Biafran agitation is simplistic and naive......a couple of salient societal negatives are at play in Anambra....maybe a security conference needs to be organized to identify these issues!

ESN/ BLA agitators

Cultism fuelled by drug abuse

Touts/ Tax collectors powered by shadowy bizmen

New Age Odinala idol worshippers doing their own power grab!

The most insidious factor is the breakdown of Nwaboi apprenticeship system in Anambra!

This list is not exhaustive but Soludo needs to tackle these issues with tact and also be ready to go kinetic if need be!




Touts

The kind of crime committed points out to well coordinated weapons distribution. There are only three sources of military grade weaponry in Anambra:

1) The Nigerian police. Interestingly over 2,000 guns have disappeared over the years from police formations in Anambra which suggests a level of complicity between police officers and criminals something that needs to be investigated by special forces.

2) Gunrunners. There has been little investigation to identify and arrest gun salesmen in trading towns like Onitsha and Nnewi. The trucks that ply the state sometimes carry contraband items like guns and bullets.

3) ESN - The igbos continue to underplay the dangers of an armed paramilitary group claiming to fight for liberation. From Liberia to Sudan such groups usually morph into monsters competing with the state for power. The gangs claiming to be ipob armed faction is directly responsible for the increasing insecurity in the state.

Solutions:

1) Cameras. The armed gangs that conduct car snatching, kidnapping often ply the expressways of the state. Yet the state cannot even conduct simple intelligence of identifying suspicious vehicles on the road. There are no cameras monitoring major roads or arteries or reading vehicle license plates.

2) Hand held XRay Scanners- Armed military officers tactically experienced should man checkpoints on the roads not to restrict flow but to identify suspicious drivers and vehicles for further surveillance. Xray Scanners can quickly find vehicles transporting hidden guns.

3) Criminal profiling. Govt should recruit special investigators to build profiles of criminals in the state and to monitor their communication and social networks. From this intelligence profiles of gun runners, kidnap gangs and financiers can be built for prosecution.

4) Police probe. Police should be investigated for gun running and ties with cultists, kidnap gangs with bad eggs identified and prosecuted. The state must act quickly on this.

5) Military action - the military must be engaged to flush out the camps of kidnap gangs in forests around the state in a concerted action. It must operate in Anambra, Imo and Enugu.

Eboofa:
Insecurity is the bane of Soludo administration!! I have always believed that attributing 100% of security challenges to Biafran agitation is simplistic and naive......a couple of salient societal negatives are at play in Anambra....maybe a security conference needs to be organized to identify these issues!

ESN/ BLA agitators

Cultism fuelled by drug abuse

Touts/ Tax collectors powered by shadowy bizmen

New Age Odinala idol worshippers doing their own power grab!

The most insidious factor is the breakdown of Nwaboi apprenticeship system in Anambra!

This list is not exhaustive but Soludo needs to tackle these issues with tact and also be ready to go kinetic if need be!




Touts

The insecurity started with proliferation of military grade weapons through IPOB sympathizers who financed the group. That group has now gone rogue and have turned their bush camps into kidnap camps.

Anambra needs a military operation to sweep the state and Imo to clear all these paramilitary camps. It's not just blocking expressways but they need helicopters, satellite imagery and phone trackers to identify and arrest criminal gangs.

Soludo likes to talk. Time for actio .

Under Soludo:

- 1 house of assembly member murdered and beheaded
- 1 house of assembly member kidnapped
- Retired Arch bishop kidnapped
- 1 catholic priest killed
- Several Catholic and Anglican priests abducted
- US Convoy attacked with several killed in Anambra
- Multichoice Supersport Team kidnapped in Anambra
- Ex Commissioner kidnapped in Anambra
- Secretary of Idemili Branch of NBA kidnapped while Ihiala NBA Principal State Counsel murdered
- UNIZIK Lecturer kidnapped in May 2024
- Another UNIZIK lecturer killed in Dec 2024

Dam5reey1:
12V 2kva Hybrid inverter.
12V 100AH LFP
1110 Watts Solar panels

What does it carry?

Ofodirinwa:
as someone that lives in America, the fact that every nigerian who is shot makes the news will lead you to believe nigeria is not safe. There's no major state in America that does not report less than 1000 people gunned down a year. But nobody will ever say because people are being shot they should halt roads lol

America has statistics of gun violence of which 60% is suicide. Homicide is roughly 20,000 in a year. It is SIGNIFICANTLY more in Nigeria. From Fulani herdsmen to cultists to ritual killings to armed robbery. Nigeria has become increasingly violent and weapons proliferation is a serious problem. Statistics say that around 10,000 homicides happen in Nigeria per year but it's under reported.

Security, security, security.

All the roads in the world mean nothing without security.

Yesterday a unizik lecturer was gunned down 400m from the Secretariat and Police B Division. And Soludo is offering amnesty to criminals.

The governor better wake up and re establish army checkpoints on all major entry and exits into the major cities with rapid response specialized squads tracking and tackling kidnapping gangs. Anambra is not a massive state. The increasingly brazen behavior of criminals says that the security architecture is fundamentally broken.

Otherwise, like play like play do not be surprised if criminals target government commissioners.

pandax:
What is the current average monthly IGR for Anambra?.

Enugu is currently doing over 16b per month!

Anambra generates N3bn IGR monthly – Soludo

https://punchng.com/anambra-generates-n3bn-igr-monthly-soludo/

Enugu meanwhile grew IGR from 3bn a month to around 10b because they overhauled their tax agency. They have a simplified digitized tax system where informal traders pay once through an e ticketing system and formal businesses get a consolidated demand notice. In Anambra there are hordes of legal and illegal tax collectors. Agberos on the streets and in the markets.

Anambra should request EIRS staff on secondment to its agency and relocate some of the deadwood in its agency.

ebufa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7betjEdjAk&t=532s




The dreaded Niger River floods are with us again, nobody is even reporting the flooding in parts of Anambra state this year! The inhabitants of the affected areas are our people, we need to start thinking of effective and sustainable solutions to these natural occurrences! We have geographers and civil engineers in Igboland who can proffer workable solutions. I am neither but I have seen levees or setback levees in parts of New Orleans that protect the city from flooding! we can use dredged sand from the Anambra and Niger rivers to build a semi-circular setback levee and canals to protect towns like Mmiata, ogbaru etc,

If you notice the road built by Soludo was not flooded, all we need to do is pretend we are building a road on the outskirts of the affected towns. This time, we make the earth embankments at least 2 meters higher and just enclose the towns from flooding. Excess water may be channeled away by canalization into the interior to irrigate farmlands! that's my layman's suggestion anyway..........we cannot fold our hands and pretend the problem does not exist........let us challenge OURSELVES!




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AcmS7ev39c

New Orleans is below sea level which is a different issue. For Anambra flooding results either because of the River Niger overflowing into it's drainage basin or because of building on top of swamps which is natures natural drainage or poor man made drainage systems.


Anambra which is highly urbanized needs to do more sophisticated water management. Cities should have integrated underground drainage systems and direct storm and waste water to man made reservoirs where they can be treated and returned to buildings as piped water or used for irrigation or farming.

For places lying within the river basin, they should be marked free from buildings and all relocated away from it. Ogbaru, Atani, Otuocha for example.

Water especially fresh water is a massive resource that should be controlled, managed and utilized for economic purposes. Aquaculture, agriculture, manufacturing, hospitality use heaps of water.

efelico:
Please I need a 12v 200AH tabular battery to power my gadget. Which brand can you recommend for me. I have a budget of 250k to 300k or if you can suggest any other battery within that range it okay. Am currently using 12v 100AH but it's goes up around 2am

I have one for sale. Luminous deep cycle flooded acid for sale at 300k. Drop your contact.

Chikeluba25:
Young man, Gov. Willie Obiano interlocked the two gateways in ICC to car park, and intentionally leave that large space by the left hand side for future (5star Hotel). So what swampy entrance are u talking about?

I understand that frustration can make one to frame-up/believe whatever that makes them sleep well at night, but misinforming people is way too far.

Now take a close look at the dual carriage entrance from wonderland road below.

I don't need to make believe anything. My driver almost got the car stuck in the muddy place you call an entrance road when seeking parking on that far side.

I suggest you actually visit that ICC and not rely just on pictures.

Jcoleworld911:
I’m not sure you were at Anambra invest last year, cox if you’re you should have noticed that there’s another entrance gate from the other side going towards awka wonderland, the ongoing hotel is towards that side too

Then solution fun city has three entrance gate, while the express remains the major entrance

You don’t make claims you’re not sure of, desist from that, this is an educative forum. Thanks

Look I deal with engineering projects in Nigeria and interact with some of the contractors involved in these projects on ground.

The only gate into and out of the ICC is the one facing the Old Enugu Rd. The second one facing wonderland is permanently locked because it leads to a swampy part of the land.

The Fun City has one entrance gate from the expressway and something they call a service entrance leads around the back from Arthur Eze which they will be forced to convert into a main entrance since the designers never thought deeply about traffic planning.

Yes this is an educative forum not one for sychophancy. Government should always be open to criticism and I will never hesitate to point out flaws when they don't follow best practices.

Dam5reey1:
Exactly... English teacher..

Me dont know anything.

Here is a Manufacturer charging Voltage 58.4V explain why they printed this on their battery.

Example 1:

Many LiFePO4 battery manufacturers recommend 14.6 volt absorption. But, that singular recommendation doesn’t account for numerous factors like managing a larger system, battery longevity, and more. Increasingly, we are seeing good reasons to lower charge voltages to 14 volts or below.

https://panbo.com/charging-lifepo4-whats-the-impact-of-lower-voltages

Example 2:

Researchers found that keeping LFP batteries fully charged creates harmful compounds in the pack from high voltage and heat. As you cycle the pack frequently—meaning discharging and charging fully—these harmful compounds deposit onto the negative electrode, consuming lithium, causing degradation.


https://batteriesnews.com/lfp-battery-health-degrades-at-full-charge-study-finds/#google_vignette

0bjpmb:
Mktinsight the miserable night owl. Whatever you condemn always turns out good, so your opinion is useless and not needed on the projects in Anambra.
You always claim to know everything but you haven’t been able to fix your miserable life. It is only you that knows the best but you are stuck on nairaland. People that have something to offer are not sleeping on nairaland posting nonsense like you do. Get out, no one is interested in your trashy opinion.

I wasted my data responding to a low IQ nasty piece of filth like you. Just look at the rubbish you post on nairaland insulting all kinds of people:

https://www.nairaland.com/0bjpmb/posts

0bjpmb:
Mktinsight , the problem you have is that you always come off as the only person that knows everything and how best to do it? Shut up and get out because you don’t know anything.

This was how you criticized Anambra international airport and today we got it. I have learnt to know that anything you criticize is good and anything you don’t criticize is wrong.

Awka fun city has 3 entrances and it is rightly situated and properly located. Awka ICC is equally well located and has 2 entrances.

So get out because you don’t know anything.

When you lack an argument you resort to insults.

I know your type, you are poorly educated and poorly informed and any thing that pops your bubble of ignorance you start abusing instead of using it as an opportunity to learn.

You may as well hug a transformer because I ain't going anywhere. I will beat the truth into you.

0bjpmb:
Port harcourt pleasure park is located on the same axis as the Awka fun city. The road is wide enough to contain all the traffic. Awka fun city has 3 entrances. Awka ICC has 2 entrances too, one at low traffic road and the other at Uzu Awka junction. Both projects are properly planned and located.

I was at Anambra Invest last year. The entrance is directly on old Enugu Rd and it was chaos entering and leaving because it interfered with traffic plying that road which is heavy. Expect the same with Fun City.

Clearly the Anambra state Ministry of Works lacks the capacity to design projects from holistic standpoint. It shows in the flyover design in Awka where they chose left angles and convoluted underpass at amawbia, kwatta and arroma which slows and concentrates traffic. Flyovers are built to improve traffic flow and the design in the underpass should have been a roundabout.

Then rather than selecting somewhere like the vast dry ABS land close to the secretariat for the ICC they selected a swamp far from the town which required heavy and expensive sandfilling and will make the parking lot inherently unstable. Then they put the front gate in front of heavy traffic.

Or is it Onitsha Mall where they put the food court on the far end and the anchor tenant on the other and then locked up the nearest entrance to ShopRite to force people to pass by the food court?

The govt makes numerous mistake because they design projects in house with lack of foresight and competence. Going forward they need to award design of projects externally to a competent company and the construction to another competent company.The result is better for everyone.

Go and look at Agodi gardens in Ibadan for example. Designed by an internationally renowned South African company and built by a competent contractor.

As the bible says my people suffer for the lack of knowledge. There is a reason people spend decades studying and practicing architecture, engineering, soil testing, material science, urban planning things important for building projects. Anambra govt should do things properly.

Bestmanfornow:
Solution Fun City have three entrance and exist gates

Which three entrances? Just admit whoever designed the entrance and roads was poor. And you don't need a massive concrete structural gate for an amusement park unless you are just enriching the contractor.

The left side of the entrance to the stadium should have been converted to a road linking the site directly from Onwurah Street to it's parking lot. Then from Arthur Eze a second entrance.

You see the same lack of thinking with the ICC entrance which should be on its side road not directly on old Onitsha Enugu expressway.

A good design is ekwueme square and secretariat where you come off the expressway to a low traffic road that links to its entrance.

ANSMEDIA:
Ongoing construction of the imposing access roads and gate house to the Awka fun city.

The interior Fun City design is good but the venue suffers from poor traffic planning.

The entrance directly faces the expressway which will create a bottleneck that will cause congestion all the way back to Zara Stores. Moreover, it increases the journey for those coming from within the town who are forced to follow the expressway turn back at aroma before approaching the entrance .

Ikeja Mall, Polo Park Mall all make use of side access not frontal access and use two entrances opposite each other to reduce congestion and improve accessibility.

Solution City should open up an entrance from the back at Arthur Eze to improve accessibility not just for cars but even pedestrians.

Dam5reey1:
LFP Capacity after 3 years+


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL-Yt_O8E44

Nice.

Many have said the same thing and research shows that lifepo4 should be charged and discharged at 0.2-0.3C for longevity.

[quote author=ANSMEDIA post=131853267][/quote]Nice but he should build it in phases and relocate sections of government house instead of all at once.

Also one would think the contractor would construct the internal roads, drainage and provision for street lights of the complex first rather than last.

9jatriot:
Considering that those countries are not richer than us, I wonder how they really do it.

Most of those countries have a few decent cities with higher standards of living not lots of urban areas where people sell on the road, on their head, inside wheelbarrow. Cheap fuel created imaginary cities full of poor people in Nigeria. Many should be in the villages not doing the same business of selling garri in wheelbarrow in the city.

bleexInc:
Hello House; kindly assist.
I have an inverter setup with 2 Amaron quanta 200AH battery and 1.5kva luminous inverter that I have been using for about 18month now. I use nepa light to charge it.
It use to have backup light of about 6 - 10hours when I started using it. My major load is my 65inches TV and 3fans with bulbs.
Now, the setup get fully charge in less than 2hours and get drained in less than 2hours.
What could be the problem.

The problem with charging lead acid battery with nepa is that it never gets a full consistent charge. The intermittent supply ends up excessively cycling the battery and eventually killing it.

You may still be able recover it. Take it to a battery maintenance person who will try to trickle charge it.

temizeee:
. Thanks for the insight and reference to someone else experience tho….. but still doesn’t change the question if you ever use the Lifep04 battery technology before? What is your own personal experience with them? Let us hear and learn from you tell us about the grade A cells that you know or can recommend

Also let me inform you that the glorified lead acid/tubular has more fake brands currently in the market…like 220ah not even performing upto standard 50% DOD despite been new and all that.

My point is fake brand is always a common thing in the new technology world we are right now and it’s almost inevitable

Yes there's lots of fake brands in the market. I bought felicity lfp a few years ago and found out half of what the alaba boys are selling have fake capacities.

Tubular the same thing. What used to be rugged is now being downgraded and sold under lots of brand names. I bought the 220a inverlast from simba six years ago. Very rugged. What's in the market now doesn't feel anything like that version.

isangjohnson:
I'm always happy when I see people going extra mile to proof their points. It's very wrong to argue and make claims without proof. Thanks for this information.
Going back to the OP, my observation is still what I've been saying. It's very WRONG to entirely depends on what sellers are telling you including myself.
Do a thorough research/investigation before you put in your hard earned cash into it.
1. He said that batched and matched grade A Lf280K cells were sold to him in March 2022.
Did he forward the manufacturer test reports to EV for verification?. The answer is No.
2. Did he physically examine the cells?. He didn't say it.
3. After the top balancing and equalisation, did he observe the self discharge of the cells?. He didn't tell us.
Though the temperature of his region is closer to ours and he occasionally charged and discharged at 0.27C with the temperature of 38°C (not even up to 0.5C), that's not enough reason for 20% degradation under 2 years of use.
Though the charging and discharging with respect to temperature are some of the reasons for cells degradation/bulging but I'm very certain that in the case of the OP, he may have gotten low quality grade B cells without knowing.
Just as you've rightly said, seeing a cell with 8000 cycle life, carrying out capacity test to see above the rated capacity does not really mean that the cell would give up to 4 years.
Capacity can give you fake sense of quality. Self discharge is a BIGGER ISSUE. This is that when cells are resting.

Bigbrovar is on this forum and can answer for himself. But from my research:

1) There is evidence that the lifecycle of lifepo4 is greatly shortened the higher the average state of charge due to graphite reactivity with the electrolyte.

2) lifepo4 degrades irrespective of usage over time.

3) Lfp may say to charge up to 0.5C but truly it works best charging at 0.2C - 0.30C.

4) Each cell should not be overcharged and it's recommended 3.4v for bulk and 3.37v for float.

Iinnov8:
You have indicted Felicity as being average. You have also condemned Powmr. Have you really used LiFePO4 lithium batteries before? Which one do you recommend as being Grade A?

Powmr has proven itself to be a reliable brand - from its old and best-selling HHJ charge controller to its new M60 controller and its recent array of hybrid inverters. Most of the reviews on their products are positive

Also, I have had one of our contributors here do a capacity test on the Powmr LifePo4 cells (which are actually Rept cells as pointed out by someone up there) and it performed more than its rated capacity. The video has been posted here.

The insides of the Powmr battery has also been opened to show the cells and the QR code scanned. The video has also been posted here

We have also concluded a 1C (1200w+) discharge test on the battery while showing the individual cells maintaining the same voltage as they approached the lower knees of the discharge curve (close to 100% DoD), and the video will be posted shortly. According to experts here, that is the litmus test to know Grade A cells. See video excerpt attached

Do you have such test results and videos for your tubular battery?

If you want to know the difference between grade A and grade B cells, cycle them over several years and then check for capacity. Don't go on what is stated by a manufacturer. Lead acid is known technology. Lifepo4 is new technology with lots of unknowns.

One of the members here discovered 20% capacity loss of his supposedly grade A eve cells after just two years of usage or less than 800 cycles:

https://diysolarforum.com/threads/20-capacity-loss-and-bulging-after-2-5-years-of-use.88604/

Again I take the 6,000 cycle promise with a grain of salt and look at the warranties given which are often 5-10 years or max 4,000 cycles.

Iinnov8:
Correction: Most Grade A LiFePO4 lithium batteries give 6,000 cycles at 80% DoD. Then 3,000 cycles at much lesser DoD, which amounts to over 8 years of daily cycling while losing little or none of its capacity. See data sheet of Powmr 100a 12.8v battery

Tubular batteries will hardly take that kind of abuse and that's a major difference between both technologies

Most lifepo4 batteries in the Nigerian market are not grade A and those that are are very expensive. Powmr has a history of fudging numbers and poor quality. I take their 6,000 cycles with a grain of salt.

As for lifepo4 it's a superior and more flexible technology for lots of applications. But basic stuff lead acid is perfectly ok.

I use both and this was the second set of luminous batteries I bought. The inverlast battery I used for 5 years and it was still as strong as ever. Luminous is a great rugged brand and testament to this is the fact that schneider bought them out.

Peterlove11:
Make it cheaper.....its not financially advisable in 2024 to buy used tubular batteries 2x 12 220ah (5280wh) for over 500k when you can get Lithium Phosphate 5kwh with more Discharge cycles for around 1m.

If you have a small budget it's best to go for lead acid which serves it's own purpose.

For example, Luminous Voltcharge tubular battery is rated at 1,600 cycles at 80% depth of discharge. That's roughly 4.3 years lifespan and works out to 9.7 naira per kWh if you cycle it once a day.

Average lifepo4 batteries like felicity have 3,000 cycles at 80% depth of discharge and cost around 1.3m for a 5kwh battery. It works out to 10.8 naira per kwh if you also cycle it once per day.

So you can see that cost per kilowatt hour wise there is little difference. Performance wise lifepo4 main advantage over tubular are it's tolerance for high current charging, it's lightweight and relatively low maintenance requirements.

200a luminous voltcharge tubular battery for sale (two pieces). Bought newly in January and used for just 3 weeks for diaspora visitor.

Selling at 300k each. If interested comment to this post with your WhatsApp no.

Chikeluba25:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2EK0B_k-j0?si=uflfhGHAnI3Tv1Yu
Please let's make this go viral for rapid response/ further damage preventive action from federal government. How can a yet to be commissioned project (Under construction) be collapsing like this.

Tribal sentiment apart: Umahi is a big disappointment. Even Barrister Fashola (former minister of work) who is not an engineer did far better than this. Fashola timely delivered quality work on the other lane of this road... But Engineer Umahi keeps playing politics with his work. Using cooked up stories of disagreement with contractors as excuse for his lack of capacity.
Judging from the video, u will agree with me that the already completed lane by Fashola looks more solid than the one Engr. Umahi is handling.

Let's call the attention of Federal government, MTN (who are funding the project Under tax credit fund) to this disaster.

It has nothing to do with Umahi. Some soils are inherently unstable and highly prone to erosion and only discovered late. The ore-sagamu stretch is like this and after patching multiple times over the years it was RCC who solved the problem by excavating almost 3 metres deep and putting in boulders to stabilize the road.

The Federal Ministry of Works needs to conduct detailed soil mapping so that roads are built with a little more intelligence.

viccy12:
How many of these do we have ?

Nice idea but not everyone can be a trader. The best source of employment for the poor is farming with the govt encouraging production by buying wholesale from farmers at set prices with quality metrics and selling through commodity marketing boards to processors or directly through outlets. This will reduce rural to urban migration and encourage development to be spread out.