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The Anambra State Government has debunked claims that its ejection order on traders at the Head Bridge section of the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway is targeted at Hausa and Yoruba traders.

At a press briefing after State Executive Council Meeting in Awka on Tuesday, the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Chief Maja Umeh, said the ejection order was meant to clear the way for the construction of service lanes and shoulders on that section of the road.

The Hausa and Yoruba traders at the goat markets, however, maintained that the ejection order had ethnic colouration.

Umeh said alternative sites had already been allocated to the traders, who refused to relocate.

Umeh said, “Following the commencement of beautification works on Km zero-three of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway to complement the ongoing reconstruction work on the road as promised by Governor Peter Obi, it has become necessary to direct all the illegal occupants of the service lane and road shoulders to relocate immediately.

“These illegal occupants, especially those who have been allocated alternative locations like the goat sellers, 911 Lorry park users, and so on, are hereby directed to relocate to their sites immediately as their continuous stay there amounts to obstruction of the beautification exercise.

“The state government takes the beautification of the Bridge Head-Upper Iweka Roundabout very seriously since it is the main gateway into the state and will stop at nothing in bringing defaulters of this directive to order.”

The Hausa and Yoruba traders described the state government’s ejection order as “biased and ethnic motivated.”

They said they were legitimate tenants of the Federal Ministry of Housing and have valid receipts for payments for their allocations that would expire by 2014. They insisted that the plot to forcefully eject them by the state government was undemocratic.

The leaders of the traders, Chief Lateef Balogun, and Alhaji Tanimu Ibrahim, said the state government had concluded plans to lease the plot of land to a major transporter in Onitsha, adding that they were not given an alternative site to relocate to.

The trader leaders stated that the move to throw them out of the place of business they had occupied for over 40 years without a plan for compensation or relocation was a subtle way of sacking the Yoruba and Hausa communities in the state.

They recalled that the last time the state government tried to forcibly eject them with soldiers, 11 of the traders were killed.

They said, “What they are planning to do is to subtly sack us from the state but as Nigerians, we have the right to live and do business in any part of the country without fear of intimidation. We shall resist any plot to stampede us out of the market by agents of government over a flimsy excuse.

The Special Adviser to the Governor on Parks and Markets, Chief Sylvester Nwaobualor, had said the move to eject the traders was not motivated by ethnic considerations but a measure to clean up the Bridge Head which is the gateway to the state.

http://www.punchng.com/news/hausa-yoruba-traders-ejection-not-ethnic-anambra/

alexleo:
The duo of Ngozi Iweala and Dieziani are claiming respectively that we  consume 35 million litres and 59 million litres of fuel on daily basis. Now what this means is that over one hundred thousand tankers will be lifting fuel every day with each state getting not less than 2,500 tankers on daily basis.a tanker loads a maximum of about 33 thousand litres of fuel each. This also means that as over hundred tankers are taking off from depot today another one hundred and something thousand tankers will be there now waiting to lift the one of tomrrow. It continues like that until the previous one hundred thousand tankers off loads and returns to depot.  How real does this rooster and bull story sound?

you see it is very strange but I guess that is part of the fraud the said the oil cabals are commiting

according to them, they said the oil cabals can lie about the amount of barrels and liters of petrol they use during the macro transaction.

also maybe they are also adding chad, niger,camerouna and benin republic prices to it.

as u noticed urself, the figures are not consistent at all to make a direct accession of the issue. Why ?

because that is what they want , they want to confuse people

or maybe they have no record or figures

manny4life:
@alj harem,

Seriously dude, why are you bent on "seeking what Manny has to say", attaching my name with irrelevant questions? What has Manny and Beaf got to educate you now? Why do you like to attach our names together? This is what you did on the other thread and the one before, biko, let my name be, I use whatever God you serve to beg you, please let my name be,

Daalu nwannem

because I see you 2 as very good economics that is why I specifically called manny4life and beaf. I have nothing against you or beaf, I just though you 2 were very clever in Nigeria economy.

Ndo nwannem, sorry for the bother.

success4:
Prodigal spending by PDP led goverment

I am surprise to find them online and but they are short of words which means it is something not good.

Knowing PDP goons, I would have received a truck load of insults[b] if they were right and it was something positive in our economy[/b]

I suppose the only logical conclusion I have is that these external reserves were borrowed by the FG to pay

1. Fuel subsidy which was 1.8 trillion naira (according to the latest figures from CBN)

2. Spent on election ( according to one the the best economist in Nigeria today Pat Utomi saying GEJ spends 100million a day during campaign)

3. It disappeared into over priced projects and co

4. Used to pay illegal organisation and government personal who have not impacted in the development of their sector eg NDDC, 3 foreign ministers etc

Hmmmmm still waiting for Manny4life and beaf to educate me properly though because to be honest I am an ignoramus on this issue

still no answer

na wa o

Kudos to massob

they have shown a high level of maturity

there is no point in adding fuel to the fire already.

Amsa ba? beaf and co ?

Obj from 1999- 2007 (8 yrs) =~ 62 billion dollars

Yaradua from 2007 -2010 (3 yrs) = ~50 billion dollars ======spent/lost etc 12 billion dollars

GEJ from 2010- 2012 (2 yrs) = ~33 billion dolars==========spent/lost etc 17 billion dollars

Hmmmmmmm

Any economist in the House (manny4life and co) Please can you explain to me what happened and how this things work

Thanks

Hmmmmm

May 2008 = 62 billion dollars

Last year it falls to = 32.9 billion dollars

Claiming achievement by increaing by about 1.9 billion dollars which is 33.9 billion dollars

So some how Nigeria has lost or spent about 30 billion dollars from 2008 - 2011

Maybe because I do not know economics

but can someone explain how 30 billion dollars were lost or spent within 2 years ?

thanks I would really appreciate it

Means nothing as far as I am aware

Birds cannot control their excrete for long .

Also so research shows they actually prefer Black and red painted cars to excrete on. Also are you staying abroad ?

yeyeruzi:
@9ja voice

Rascally protest indeed. Then let the SE lead the peaceful protest against boko-haram now rather than praising those protesting in diaspora.Let them leave their shops that they are glued to and NOT just put their caps to their chest for an away protest but lead the way in your own country. I see some people with lots of mouth power wanting occupy Nigeria to do that for them. Let us hear about TAKEOVER NIGERIA PEACEFUL PROTEST AGAINST BOKO-HARAM STARTING IN THE SOUTH EAST and all will follow.

Gbammmm very well said

efisher:
@James, local content is Obasanjo's baby not GEJ's. It only gets better by the day but OBJ deserves the credit. If GEJ can succeed with full deregulation of downstream petroleum sector and power sector, he too will get his own credit and that will launch him into my number 1 spot. Till then, I'm watching.

is deregulation now an achievement

efisher:
Fear don catch them. Thief, ole, barawo, onyioshi (not sure I got d spelling right )!

God punish you boko rams sponsors. Judgment day is coming. GEJ don't back down.

u got the spelling right bro

well said, I hope this are not the people GEJ is scared of. He should investigate this people very well as well.

if that is true, then Boko haram = MEND

It is a difficult one and also we don't know the informations GEJ knows so we can not do a correct assection to it but based on what I know so far i would do the following.

1. Gain the trust of the people and tell them the truth but not all the secrets

2. Shoot on sight policy against boko haram

3. Arrest Asari Dokubo for even starting bombing in Nigeria and giving others ideas

4. Register every Nigerian in a database.

5. Military check points in Kano, Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and each person should provide his name which would be entered in a database and the face should match that of the picture.

6. NEVER ATTEMPT TO PRIVATISE THE MARINE. Bad bad bad Idea

7. Register all Military personal and police officer in a data base network with facial recognition which would be periodically checked by different officers .

8. Make a Nigerian "FBI" that investigate thing thoroughly and since the database is there, there job would be made a lot easier

9. Give each new police member an intense training for at least 6 months.

10. Let my people ( Nigerian) see what I am doing so they would know I am not just sitting and looking while they die. I care about them.

All this would cost billions of Naira but I believe if I reduce the salaries and allowances each senator etc gets, I would be able to achieve this within a year or a year and 6 months.

Obiagu1:
Who gave the Army the authority to arrest or kill MASSOB members? Who sent them out from their barracks when there's not trouble in the East? Are they the police?

Nigeria is seeking what will consume her?
Non-violence will soon be discarded since the promoter of such ideology is dead.

LOL true of a coward

Mouth mouth mouth, abeg go sleep

[b]if a protest against BOKO HARAM cannot consume Nigeria [/b]it is now the clowns Massob that would do the job. Pleeeassse go sleep

htajz:
mischeif is your middle name.

but that is what you said indirectly

@OP

My advice for una is to live and get use to it. why ?

because you people have not asked the basic question that thousands have been asking.

WHAT ARE SOLDIERS DOING ON THE STREETS OF KADUNA, KWARA, LAGOS, ANAMBRA when Boko haram members are still at large ?

Would it not be better to call the SSS or even Biafra intelligence to help investigate who these people are ?

Here is where I stand Alj haram

aurenflani:
most southerners loved to hate northerners. they always hope for d destruction of northerners. they are very passionate about this hatred that their children are trained to hate northerners from d cradle to d grave. but what is most astonishing is d degree of their hypocracy and how far they could take this double facet character! it's amazingly pathetic. yet they will like everyone in d world 2 see d exact opposite & blame d north for dia true feeling which they think is counselled even though it spreads everywhere in their relationship with d north.  dat is not true of northerners who only reacts from time 2 time because they believed d southerners carry with dem an incurable inferiority complex.

Lets not generalise, there are Ijaws, Yorubas, Ikwerre, opobo, Igbos edos, ibibio etc in the south

htajz:
i said it earlier in dec that civil war have already started and people ignored me, [b]i hate to say this but igbo people need to grow some balls am begining to think that all those stories about their escapades [/b]and strenght are just fairy tales , to much cry cry ,its time for massob to arm up if not for anything at least to start fighting iinternal war first against all sabos whithin cus when everywhere finally blows up such people wil be harder to deal with than outside enemies this also goes to every other group dont be caught with your pants down.

Are you saying the igbos are the cowards now watch your mouth before amadioha fire it for you, onye ise amu

@ OP

I give it to buhari because of Idagbon

followed by Muritala then Shagari then OBJ than Yaradua then GEJ (so far) then IBB( the worst of them all)

[quote author=awesome_t link=topic=853068.msg10032508#msg10032508 date=1327356888]We've never had a "President" [/quote]Yes actually Once since independence

during Buhari and Idagbon

Iolo:
And why do Biafrans keep assuming that the South South is a part of their territory??

because they are deluded people

some are even saying middle belt is part of baifra

while others are calling delta, edo and rivers state as biafra

but one question they have failed to answer is, WHAT WOULD BAIFRA PROVIDE US THAT NIGERIA IS NOT DOING

pazienza:
This story of a yoruba man by name fajuiyi,trying to defend an igboman ironsi,there is just something fishy about that story,who gave account of that story? I ve been wondering if that story was one of those yoruba propagandas,just to paint one of their own as being righteous,aluko,awo,akintola,etc are all yoruba men,fajuiyi can't be different.

Any igbo with useful information,on this regard?

I believe I am part Igbo and that was Danjuma's account and I got it from an Ijaw website

manchy7531:
well if those are his complains, let me tell you if he employed more igbo you cant blame him cos i i know in those days they employ by merit and the igbos where the best in almost everything then.we had the best teachers,lecturers,lawyers,doctor,engineers etc(you can ask OBj's 1999-2003 government,maybe he can tell you more and that is why after OBJ's two terms,no government have performed better than him).it is not now that you employ based on quota system which has been a setback to Nigeria's growth and development.also don't forget that Nigeria was at it best when the igbos were in control, go check your history book, Nigeria started dwindling down when the Hausas and Yorubas took over cos you guys introduce mediocrity,corruption and incompetence all in the name of quota system.

During OBJ, the great benefactors were the Igbos and indeed I have forgotted the person but once I see it I would post it. The person happens to be a promitent Igbo politican that said since the war the Igbos highest political numbers in government was during OBJ

GEJ has beaten  that now. Kudos to him

you have to put into acocunt that OBJ and other past leaders were the ones that fought the war thus ex generals

The merit thing can be liken to the issue of presidency. Can we say there are no compiteent Igbo to rule Nigeria ? Certainly not

so don't start telling me about merit when it favours the Igbos and not others

Let speak the truth for once and we shall be set free

LOL 6000 for where

that is likely to be an exaggerated figure. Most likely just a thousand or so

the issue here is what people are not facing

can OBJ or Buhari sell or contact the marine to an ex OPC or Arewa youth member without this bigots shouting all over the place

I find it amazing that this were the same people shouting born to rule north has ruled nigeria for more than eternity.

the same people would shout that they held the military which is majority north etc

Now GEJ is contracting the marine to an ex-militant they are saying it is OK. LOL

dumb tribalistic Nigerians. Such double standards smh

Beaf:
Thank you. I find it hard to understand why certain people always equate a political party with an ethnic group; yet when you turn round and tell them your observations that ACN is a fascist party that runs on ethnic bigotry, they go mad.
Everybody knows ACN is a party of rascals[b], afterall their leader used to push drugs and forged his certificate.[/b]

can you explain how GEJ got 50 billion in his account ?

can you explain how patient got 13 million dollars to dubia for gold on her neck ?

you stu.pid bigot