I am glad they followed my earlier suggestion and included recreational sports fields. But seems they forgot about basketball court and park. I hope they will arrange an area where food vendor carts can be located and of course waste bins.
It's a start for livability for people to have a place for recreational activity. Not youth sleeping on phone or going to play betnaija. The rise in crime and anti social behavior is directly related to lack of physical activity amongst the youth.
hammerT: Y NO OPEN GUTTER EVERYWHERE LIKE MAD PEOPLE?
I DIDN'T SEE EVEN 1OPEN GUTTER
IT PAINS ME THAT OUR BEAUTIFUL VILLAGES ARE GRADUALLY TAKING THE LOOK OF AJEGUNLE WITH STINKING OPEN GUTTERS EVERYWHERE.
Do you see people selling gates along the road or mounting wheelbarrow colonies on the road like Nigeria? Cotonou is clean, their villages are clean. Nigeria is filthy dump.
ChimaAdeoye: Soludo is doing a fantastic job to rebuild Anambra cities! I hope he does not relent until the final liveable cities are achieved in Anambra.
It has been long overdue to have real urban renewal in Anambra urban centers to make them habitable and beautiful. The whole thing looks unimpressive now, but if Soludo keeps to his promise to sustain these projects until all these roads and projects are achieved, he would have performed a miracle in transforming Anambra cities from their present chaotic, unplanned, & congested nature into well-planned, attractive and progressive cities that generate wealth.
If you want livability in Anambra there are two areas you tackle other than just access roads. One is markets and two is transport.
If you can't organize markets you have no business calling yourself government. There is a difference between a village market with a few stalls to the montrosities of Nigerian markets where primitive organization does not scale. How can you have thousands of stalls where thousands of people congregate yet no water supply, no drainage, no toilet facilities, no waste bins, little to no parking, no proper electric system. Are you not concerned about health and spread of water or food borne disease? About congestion, fire hazard, destruction of roads from heavy traffic, filth in gutters?
Are you as a government not concerned about the attraction of markets to criminals? How many markets have proper security patrols?
You see the same thing with transport where every body is a transporter. Untrained drivers, cultists, Indian hemp smokers, criminals take join. Oyibo does not allow everybody to drive commercial vehicles because it's people that you put at risk. Anambra needs to get a hold of the transport sector. There are too many Keke, shuttle buses operating. You don't limit them or force rigorous licensing requirements on them. You don't even know who drives them. They clog all the junctions and constitute a nuisance waiting for passengers because you can't organize simple public buses with routes, stops and scheduling.
Finally, until I see a concerted effort by ansg to rid the state of the nuisance of barrow people sitting in front of markets destroying the business of stalls inside, then they are not serious. Monkey dey work baboon dey chop. Should not be allowed at all. Build markets elsewhere or go rent shops like everyone else.
Anambra1stPikin: Otondo wait when the project is completed, the Juhel road that link to this road has been completed and it came with drainage and street light, all the roads he awarded in Awka will come with walkway and street light
Walkway is obstructing the water from the road draining into the gutter and will lessen it's lifespan. The road contractor should have been involved in the pavement design.
This is the problem with itk Anambrarians. Follow the process rather than running with half baked knowhow.
Nigercat should have been awarded all roads in Awka and Onitsha. Far better than that scam called IDC.
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ebufa: Whilst suffering the humiliation of slavery,jim crow laws and civil rights denial ....the African American people of color sat at home,carried out boycotts,rallied,marched and protested ........hundreds and thousands of black Americans were killed,maimed,jailed and lynched, today the civil rights they fought for are what JJC's like the japa crew from Nigeria enjoy daily in yankee, yet the dumb Africans have the effrontery to call African Americans ' lazy akatas', your colonizers that regard the Black /negro man as little removed from a blundering f@@l are not completely wrong..........in fact that delibitation of the mind and brain maybe genetic!
The regards i have for my people continue to degrade everyday.....no wonder the south east is such a mess, our people are unable to think clearly! IPOB is fighting to save the bums of you, ungrateful lot! You cannot protest marginalisation, you cannot go to court to seek remedy,you do not want an arms uprising yet you goons do not want to support ordinary sit at home! you cowards complain everyday of marginalisation in Nigeria.............okay support peter Obi kwanu! for where! Ndigbo can be so vexatious !
The problem I have with Simon Ekpa is his inability to keep to script........the sit at home is basically a protest against the illegal and extraordinary rendition of Nnamdi Kanu........simplicita!!! He has allowed too much Biafra propaganda to taint what is really a simple message! Even the appeal court has confirmed that Kanu has no case to answer..........setting up ESN was a worthy venture and preservation of life and limb is a fundamental human right..........even the Nigerian government has codified such rights in her domestic laws.........So what do Ndigbo want from this life sef! I tire o! There is bound to be a lot of discomfort with this struggle as well as false flag operations and betrayals but with patience and consistency we will triumph!
You are comparing the African-American civil rights movement to the nonsense of IPOB? You are not serious. The civil rights leaders did not "sit-at-home". They marched on Washington. They did not tell African-Americans not to go to work. Nor did they create an armed wing to take on the KKK that attacked African-Americans attending mixed race schools or living in mixed-race suburbs.
Again, if IPOB want to stupidly sit at home every other month let them do so. Just don't force everyone else to join in their madness.
The igbos should not blindly follow people that have no plan other than to pauperize them and create the seeds of Boko Haram in their homeland. Ever since IPOB created its so-called ESN, criminals have seized the opportunity to go on a violent killing and kidnapping spree wearing "biafra" uniforms. The Biafra of criminals by criminals. The main criminal Simon Ekpa parades himself as "Prime Minister of the Biafran government in Exile". Who appointed him?
hammerFC: YOUR NOT BLIND TO THE KILLINGS GOING ON IN BENUE.
YET, IPOB SIT AT HOME IS YOUR PROIBLEM.
If the jobless touts of ipob want to sit at home for NNAMDI KANU then go ahead. All we are saying is just don't force everybody else to participate in your joblessness and poverty.
ebufa: Oga stop talking trash....it is this kind of tunnel vision that has turned southeast into a trash heap! What have the governors done since 1999 to uplift the standard of living in Alaigbo , Absolutely Nothing!!! This whole palaver in the east is to determine where true power should rest. Should power continue to be wielded by a few corrupt and visionless politicians or should it go back to the people! The Igbo political elite is the most corrupt and useless in the country bar none!
See what soludo has turned a wobbling Anambra under ''Obiano da drunk'' into! Roads are being swallowed by erosion under his watch, streets are unswept and the whole environment looks like a cattle market! We must hold the south east to account for the trillions they have collected..........if one day sit at home is going disrupt their impunity ,,,SO BE IT ! enuff abeg
How will sitting at home change anything? You have no answer.
So keep sitting at home and growing poorer while SE governors continue packing FAAC money. See how stupid your ipob leaders are. You don't even make sense anymore but follow like sheep to instruction.
If you want to protest you go on a march. If ipob marched for nnamdi kanu every Monday that will make sense not sitting at home and grow poorer while the rest of Nigeria continues doing business and making money.
The fact that they are forcing people to follow their stupidity ridicules the igbo as people of low IQ. Sheep like not exercising thinking faculty.
Nobody should entertain their nonsense in the name of fighting for Biafra. I am glad ifeanyi ubah warned Simon ekpa. He should take steps to get the Finnish government to prosecute him for incitement of violence.
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Just watch !!!! It is hard to feel optimistic about Soludo's performance after visiting Anambra! I visited Anambra last summer and my visit to Awka and Onitsha were the lowest points of my summer vacation! I got some encouragement before the election in March but for some reason the soludo admin seem to have gone back to sleep! He seems to be micro managing his admin to the detriment of the whole state....who is his sanitation czar? who is his points man for works and housing? He should know that Ndi anambra are very emotional and perceptive lot, people feel that soludo considers his Anambra role as just a stepping stone for his badly hidden presidential ambition! He should set up a strong Public works department and a strong environmental sanitation agency.........all these 2 km road contracts awarded for 1 billion naira will not lead us anywhere o!
He has a very good point about ensuring cities have roads. But besides roads he has to make sure that you get rid of the nuisance factor of all the touts and riff raffs trooping into Anambra state. All touts should be identified, arrested, chained and forced to clean the gutters or evacuate waste as punishment. The next is to sign agreement with all markets to operate with standards with specific penalties for non-compliance. All market shops should have waste receptacles, all markets should evacuate their waste according to a time table. All markets should clean out the gutters around them once a week.They should have parking, all loading and unloading with trailers should happen according to a time table and not interfere with traffic. All markets should not allow hawkers or barrows to encroach on the right of way. These enforcements is what Lagos did and Fashola kept shutting down markets until markets complied.
The same should go for transport which needs to be overhauled in cities. Buses operating within cities must be licensed to operate and carry signage showing the specific routes they ply and not go where they feel like. They must be minimum of 14 seaters. Inter-city buses must operate out of bus parks and specific bus stops. Keke's should be outlawed from major roads where they cause unnecessary congestion and lawlessness. All buses must carry insurance and be inspected yearly for roadworthiness. All bus drivers should be licensed to drive and go for annual vision and health checkup.
Abufo: We Anambrarians continue to underestimate the earning power of the hospitality and tourism industry................see how years of dedicated investment in Tourism and travel has transformed Kenya's capital city Nairobi! yet we have miles of Rivers Niger and Omambala that we can build a resort city for travel and living!
Kenya gets around a million wealthy European and Asian tourists because of their easy climate and their pristine natural environment (they did not eat all their zebra and kill all their lions and elephants). There are also between 50,000 Oyibos living in Nairobi working for the UN (who has its regional headquarters there). It has no comparison with Nigeria talk less Anambra state. For Anambra we need to build on existing advantages. Things our people are already doing that has global connections.
For example, Anambra is known as a place of trade. There are over 18 markets in Onitsha. Yet there is absolutely no policy for growing the place as a trade hub in Nigeria. What do I mean? Every single one of those markets in Onitsha are PRIMITIVE and UNPLANNED. The organization from their "committees" is made up of people as backward as them. Many do not have adequate parking, no organized warehousing, no conveniences, no food court area, no central electrical supply or water system, bad roads, no signage, no marketing, trailers and trucks clogging the roads. Their shops are not even online. Thats called low-hanging fruit for a serious government. You identify markets with great intra-state trade and you organize, expand and revamp them. You make it easy for people from around Nigeria to come shop and leave safely or to have goods delivered to them. Nigeria imports over $30 billion worth of goods, a trade hub in Anambra with retail value add of 50% can easily be pushing 20% of that or around $9 billion with government getting VAT revenue.
The second thing Anambra is known for is education. There are already a number of schools, universities in the state. The state government needs to have a policy on the education sector to maintain standards, improve quality and promote the state externally to increase investment in schools and related areas (books, uniforms, classroom furniture and equipment, accomodation). The UK promotes its boarding schools everywhere and now its universities. Anambra should do the same. The demand for quality education in Nigeria is high.
Thirdly Anambra is known for industry. Obi established the brewery and assisted Innoson to scale and Obiano helped launch the footwear industry at Oba and Rice mills. There needs to be a lot more targeted investment in industry. Things that can substitute for Chinese imports. Again for a clue to what is possible one only needs to go to Onitsha to see what is happening there. To me, three areas that the government needs to focus on for scale in manufacturing are clothing and garments, building materials and agroprocessing. Like Lagos that partnered with a Singaporean investor they need to partner and establish proper industrial layouts with power, roads, warehouses, security, access to transport routes. incentives such as tax-free zones.
pandax: Having the sports facilities and academies as you stated is good (Soludo will develop park B of Awka Stadium to have the facilities you mentioned), but we also need to make sure that Anambra is livable by investing more in other leisure activities, aside from sports facilities. The idea of Anambra being a transit state have to stop, we need to attract our populations east, north and southwards of Onitsha and not west wards.
The only issue i have with the project is that a similar project(Agulu Leisure Park) is less than 10km away from the site of current project. I expect the state to plan similar or even better Leisure Park on the bank of River Niger or a point between Onitsha and Nnewi.
The problem with Agulu Lake is that it is full of crocodiles and is relatively isolated and remote. It will be very hard to make the place a resort. Better to keep it as a premium hotel and use the adjoining areas to build short-let and long-term residential for key visitors in the state such as some of the engineering company managers, government consultants, UNICEF/UNDP/WHO senior officers, etc.
About leisure as a business plan, its nice but not something the state government should get itself involved with. Awka already has Awka Wonderland. How many people visit there? Sports on the other hand is a critical trade. More than $7 billion is spent on football transfers every year. An Academy can easily be generating $10-20 million dollars per year by scouring the entire country for talent and housing, feeding and training them to world class standard and selling 5-6 every year to European clubs. Nigeria has a huge raw youth demographic.
If you notice Sporting Lagos funded by the Paystack guys is trying to go this route by unearthing talent at a more mature stage. However, few are looking at nurturing 12-15 year old talent. This is where ANSG can get European and some ex-player expertise to set it up and run it and let them get a commission in marketing talent from this pipeline. I am certain there are a lot more Osihmens out there.
pandax: Nice idea. In fact, i would love to see a similar thing around Onitsha and Nnewi axis.
Folks, i am yet to see pictures of completed Road Projects by Soludo here, and we are nearing 2 years into his administration
Fun city is nice but if they seriously invested in sports they would make far more. Already teams from nnewi and Enugu have chosen the Awka stadium as a destination. Imagine if the state invested in training pitches, fitness equipment and an academy. For example Chelsea has made over 210 million pounds from selling academy players since 2015. Ajax in the same period have made 283 million euros. Osihmen was sold to Wolfsburg for 3.5 million euros and from there to lille at 19m Euro to Napoli at 80m Euro. At each step his Nigerian agent gets a percentage.
500,000 is roughly 10-15% of the population meaning every 10 people you see 1 is a yoruba. Definitely cannot be. If you say 500,000 non-Igbos in Anambra yes. Yorubas make up probably 20% of that number or around 100,000. Largest number non-Igbos are the northerners.
PROUDIGBO: Two clips showing Port Harcourt city and Bonny Island NLNG camp. I upload them in the hope someone that matters in gov't views this thread and gets inspired to help improve on our own cities and estates...even if it means knocking a few stubborn Igbo heads together!
First clip shows Bonny NLNG estate. This estate, more than any other, shows why i keep banging on about greenery, sweeping of streets, underground electricity/communications cabling and planning! It would be near impossible to replicate this in any open city in Nigeria, but it's possible to take some pointers from this when constructing exclusive estates....like the upcoming Awka millenium estate for instance. Notice how there's enough space between buildings, and all open spaces are covered in well manicured lawns; there's effort made to plant and nuture well-spaced out ornamental trees; the roads are marked and well swept; there's road signage where necessary; there are even open gutters (my pet hate), but you'd hardly notice due to the cleanliness and organisation of the estate that over-compensates for this; and finally, there's no high perimeter walls (that gives you that enclosed/claustrophobic feeling) built almost on top of the main road! The individual houses in this estate are basic....even austere, but i bet you all watching the clip would much rather have your family living here than in those estates of multi-million dollar mansions with high perimeter walls built almost on top of the roads and which suffer from all the ills we normally complain about!
Second clip shows a part of Port Harcourt City, and there are takeaways we could replicate in our own cities too. Unlike with the NLNG estate, this one shows the open city and hence is better for comparison.
As much as there are quite a number of things i don't like about Wike, one thing we can all agree is that his no-nonsense approach to governance and development of Port Harcourt has helped transform the city into the organised, clean and green one we see today! Notice how there's a near absence of build-up of sand/sediment/rubbish by the sides of the roads as it's apparent they're swept regularly; the roads have the appropriate road markings and signages; notice how, where space permits, the roads are widened to four lanes or more; there's little or no commercial roadside clutter and rubbish....even in the busy/commercial areas, and this gives the city the appearance of sanity and order; for the most part, there's neat sidewalks over underground drainage and adjoining to the sidewalks are usually carpet grass right up to he walls of individual properties....this can help reduce the level of dust in the air and sand/sediment on roadsides; and finally, there's effort made to plant ornamental trees in some areas...esp' highbrow areas.
Individual effort...nobody surpasses us at this! Where we need to pull our socks up is in the area of governance and being firm with those who flout the law!
The day Anambra leaves this home for all mantra and embraces law and order the better for the state. People are just plain lawless in Anambra something you will not see in even adjoining state. If its not the sea of keke madmen driving recklessly without care, its barrow people setting up on the side of roads. It is like that because the state government allows it and every degenerate from around Nigeria quickly discovers you can behave anyhow in Anambra.
Contrast with Rivers where they dont give every keke driver a license, they control their number, they control their bus parks, they control many things. Rivers Mass Transit has an enclosed bus park and no vendor is allowed to sell anywhere outside the permimeter. Contrast with the madness at Upper Iweka or Eastern Mass and Tracas in Awka where buses load recklessly on the side of the road and vendors line up and dump their litter in the gutter.
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Achebe was great. In fact, very great. But he couldn't achieve half of what Soyinka achieves in their line of business. Only an idiot would compare both of them. You find a match for WS when you see a prolific, successful and well know author who excels in writing drama, prose, Poetry, essays and theories. Achebe wrote only prose, the moment he dabbled into poetry, he flopped.
Achebes books are the highest selling books of any African author in history. You know who is number 2? Chimamanda Adichie. Soyinka is a great writer but in terms of influence he can't light a candle to Achebe. Achebe took on racism and got penalised for it. He never smelt the Nobel prize for literature.
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Mandate them to clean up Anambra and present report card in two months.
It will be done.
Not all these Camera stints. This should be the second Gutter-operation stint since March last year.
Government should clean up around market and present bill to market to pay. Less filth smaller bill. That's the only way to deal with these animals that call themselves traders.
By the way the barrow hawkers are back at eke awka. No enforcement whatsoever.
abuzz33: Amendments Passed by Buhari devolving power from Federal to States and my opinion on what Anambra/SE should do:
AIRPORTS Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 29 (Devolution of Powers (Airports) This bill seeks to move the item “airports” from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent legislative list.
Anambra has an airport and the question is whether moving it to the concurrent legislative list allows Anambra to set taxes such as the Passenger Service Charge which is an abysmal N2,000 per passenger meaning that with 200,000 avg passengers a year the passenger tax revenue of the airport will be just 400 million naira barely enough to sustain the airport. To enable the airport to be financially self-sustaining the PSC must rise by at least 500% . Other fees like aircraft landing fees, car park fees, concession fees contribute less than 10% to domestic airport revenue.
CORRECTIONAL SERVICES Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 31 (Devolution of Powers (Correctional Services) This bill seeks to delete the item “prisons” from the exclusive legislative list and redesignate it as “correctional services” in the concurrent legislative list.
This is a good measure because Nigerian prisons are overcrowded and often the innocent are jailed along with the guilty. The state should endeavour to build correctional facilities particularly in remote towns. The state should use prisoners as cheap labour for things like farming, clearing of gutters..
RAILWAYS Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 32 (Devolution of Powers (Railways) The bill seeks to move the item “railways” from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent legislative list.
Anambra along with Enugu, Imo, Abia and Rivers should aim to build a rail line connecting Enugu, Awka, Onitsha, Owerri, Aba and Port Harcourt along the axis. Passengers, Containers, Fuel and Vehicles can be moved between the states easily. For passengers, rail will open up safer travel between Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Abia and Rivers
POWER Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 33 (Devolution of Powers) (National Grid System) This bill seeks to delete after the word, “areas”, the words, “not covered by a national grid system” in the concurrent legislative list. This will allow states to generate, transmit and distribute electricity in areas covered by the national grid within their respective domains.
Anambra can use this law to generate constant power for industrial layouts and government facilities without the need for EEDC and the limitations of grid allocation.