https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNZMVzCC2CA?si=Ohvo0pCyzBM9gZHA In a Nigeria where Igbo are call minority, dot in a circle after dividing us into small small units and separate us with geopolitical zone sentiment; haven't you been fooled and robbed enough?
Only a fool does not know why the northerners are considered more political powerful than the east. The ppl called northerners comprise'sof different languages (Not even dialect like u hv it in the east). There u will find Hausa, Tivi, Fulani,... But these people were able to unit their selves as one (north), enlarge their coast and increase their voting power. And here u are telling us that Our Igbo brothers from Anioma are not Igbos. Can u just listen to urself?
I tell u again.... By the time ndi Yoruba are done taking Ohaji, Egbema away from u imolits (while u chest shadows) then ur like will tell our grandchildren how Ohaji Egbema people are not Igbos.
Anambra will always choose Anioma over Orlu. As u can see in the video above, Anioma is moving with the speed of light on daily basis.
Lol. If you had listened to Sen Ned Nwoko to the end, he never campaigned for Anioma state to be a state in the southeast area. If he asked the people there they will say no to bringing them in Anioma State to join the southeast area. Except Asaba area, other Aniomas are the "my name na Chikeluba, but I no be Ibo." Even Ned Nwoko was Chinedu Nwoko but removed Chi from his name to avoid identification as Igbo. In 2006, Reps of Orlu zone in the Refotms Conference asked for Orlu state because they knew the nucleus of a denied 6th state in the southeast area should come from Imo West (Orlu) senatorial zone. The State was about to be created as Njaba if not that then Senate President Nnamani threw away the baby with the bathtub. Only a foolish Igbo person would think of Anioma as sixth state in the southeast area; a foolish person who does not understand that it amounts to reducing representation of the Igbos in the federal government system.
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cadmanspize: Orlu state creation is driven of convetousness of Orlu people. After years of rulling imo, na to dey cry marginalisation. Dead Aim.
1) Anger from Owerri zone against Orlu zone holding on Imo guber office for long, that is what's driving the narrative: "Orlu State makes no sense, give us Anioma as 6th state in the southeast."
2) All the oil producing areas in Imo state are in Orlu senatorial district. Owerri does not want to give up the oil producing areas in Orlu zone. Therefore Owerri started the saying that Orlu state proposal does not make sense, that Anioma instead needs to be made the 6th state in the SE.
But they all in Owerri are supposed to know that Anioma as the 6th state for the southeast area is a huge deprivation of political representation for Nd'Igbo in the SE zone. After years of Owerri literally seizing all institutions of development for Imo state and located them in Owerri area, it still wants to hold Orlu as forever village side of Imo state.
Helicopters to do what? To kill Nigerians. Helicopters and armed forces to kill off the Nigerian groups that do not accept the fraudulent political structure and fraudulent government system of Nigeria.
Abagworo: I don't know why some of you think like stone age men that use every opportunity to denigrate themselves and make themselves appear very cheap before onlookers . The past State creations and future State creations have and will always be based on administrative convenience and balance of development. The Orlu State proposal and reactionof people like you shows you don't know past history nor present history of the areas involved in this creation. No part of the Orlu State is richer than the other in any way. You can't say Uga is richer than Akokwa or Umuchu is richer than Njaba or Umuaka is richer than Uli. Everywhere in the proposed State are full of multimillionaires but they are the most affected by the recent insecurity in both States. The reason the Orlu State is not needed is not because of the fake Anambra ethnicity but because Southeast is small and if you remove Northern Imo and Southern Anambra to form a State the remaining States will be too small and the new State will be a problem as it has nearly same population density as Lagos. There is no land for mega projects except maybe at Ohaji and Oguta LGAs which are boundary and not central. Anioma is the best bet for a new Igbo speaking State while the minorities should also be tolerated.
Do you know: when you make Anioma become sixth state in the SE, you actually reduce the representation of Igbos in the National Assembly and at the FEC? Sit down and do the calculation first.
Land mass is never a yardstick to determine where new federating units like state or region is created.
Advocates of create Anioma as sixth state for the southeast think Orlu will be a master in Orlu state, that's all. But Orlu state will have all government institutions of development distributed in all nooks and crannies of Orlu state. It's not going to be like Imo state where Owerri literally seized and seizes all government institutions and parastatals that are supposed to induce development in Imo state, but got them all located in Owerri area . Owerri has developed into two to three cities because of the institutions and parastatals in Owerri. Orlu deteriorated because of denial of government institutions and parastatals.
irisher: This your write up shows you're still a child that haven't gone to anywhere in Nigeria. Onitsha is known by its standard affordable cost of living, lowest poverty rate, highest clusters of industries & factories, highest concentration of billionaires, highest numbers of importers, biggest market in Africa, most urbanized city in Nigeria, Onitsha is among the city in Nigeria with arguably no slum apart from Okpoko that's already getting a face-lift. When it comes to commercial activities, Anambra has about 290 international and major markets compared to Lagos that has 52 markets. In 1997, only Nnewi city statistically has about 200 major industries(Nnewi is Onitsha metropoly) Numbers of industries within Onitsha are countless now. Lagos can only boast for having a functioning Seaport, having many clusters of Oil companies at Ijegun Satellite town, Lagos Island, Lagos Trade fair, Idumota, Ladipo, Mile 2 - Maza Maza Bus terminal(it's arguably biggest bus terminal in Nigeria) Ikeja city, having many foreign consulates, and Chinese & Indian companies. But most of these economical activities in Lagos aren't reflecting economically to residence and indigenes of Lagos state because of high unemployment rates in Lagos, highest cost of living, high poverty rate, and having the highest slums regions in Nigeria. Aba is only known for its production of clothing and shoes, there's no other economical activity in Aba that dwarf Anambra. I'm not dick measuring, both Anambra & Lagos are the most important state in Nigeria, you're the one suffering from inferiority complex by mentioning Onitsha, Anambra & Lagos to your local Aba and Orlu enclaved region.
If Aba is known only for shoes and clothing, what industry is your Owerri known for?
FYI, apart from shoe and clothing business, Aba hosts many other big and small scale industries.
FYI, when Imo was a state for all the Imo groups under Mbakwe administration, Aba, Orlu and Umuahia were the three officially recognised industrial and business hubs of then Imo state. When Abia was cut out from Imo state, Oru-Owerri politicians met and swore that no federal government enterprise or institutions must be allowed to get located outside Owerri zone. Even roads built in Orlu area have been watched as they dilapidated. The situation was worsened by govs from Orlu zone so poorly informed that they believe that state development is all about development of state capital. Orlu retrogressed. Owerri ballooned with modern development and urban expansion through location of all federal institutions and government in Imo state for location only in Owerri senatorial.
irisher: Proposed Anioma state is more important to Ndi Igbo than the already failed Orlu state. I'm not saying a new state should seize to be created from South East region, even if a state should be created let it come from Imo state alone, I repeat let Imo state be divided in two fragments. You should therefore exclude Abia and Anambra communities that detest to ever identified as Orlu state or to share things in common with Orlu folks.
Owerri was a state capital of old Imo state while Orlu was a typical village, and there're so many differences between Orlu and Owerri in terms of urban modern development. A city is not only developed by having government institutions or being a state capital, a city is collectively developed by an effort of an individuals and the strong entrepreneurial skills and mindset of the people living in the state or a given geographical region. Orlu folks should focus more on developing their town, because the self acclaimed Orlu city is not developed and is not business viable. Orlu can only be developed with the help of Owerri that's a bitter truth for Orlu folks that they don't want it to come to reality. Orlu city is not way in comparison with Otuocha city, Umueri(Anambra) in terms of good planned layout, economic viability, commercial activities & Industries and urban modern development. Otuocha city development is the entrepreneurial mindsets of the present Anambra East LGA, Oyi LGA, Anambra West and Ayamelum LGA, Awka and some Ndi Igbo with help of British for city planning. Otuocha house the biggest foodstuffs market in Igboland. The same Umueri folks are currently building the biggest International market in Nigeria by landmass(at Ikenga Umueri) without the aid of any government. Why do Orlu people always embarrass Ndi Igbo by trying to leave Imo State Union? That is why other tribes say that Ndi Igbo do not like themselves, but that's not true. First image is Owerri google satellite cam. 2nd Orlu, Imo state 3rd Otuocha city, Anambra.
1) proposed Anioma State as 6th state in the SE zone is like lowering political representation of Igbos in the National Assembly and in the Federal Executive Council; further disadvantages from Nigeria's Quota System against the Igbos. You pretend you don't know these, pretend to be a dunce, because you don't want Orlu to leave Owerri. But you call Orlu underdeveloped village.
2) From the history of states creation in the SE zone; a 6th state in the SE zone must be created from Imo and Anambra States or from any of the two states; Imo State most favoured to bring the 6th state. How? Old Anambra State yielded the largest chunk of Ebonyi state which is the 5th state in the SE zone. Therefore, old Imo state is ripe to yield the largest chunk for a 6th state in the SE zone.
Other write-ups you made up above are snippets of your Owerri disdain and revulsion for Orlu. Check out how come all the 5 federal government universities and Polytechnics in Imo State are located only in Owerri senatorial zone, yet Oru-Owerri insisted that Imo state uniiversity must be located in Owerri and it happened. Check how Owerri also got the new federal university teaching hospital for Imo state located in Owerri. How come all federal housing estates to Imo state are located in Owerri alone. How come the presence of all federal and state ministries and paratarals for Imo state in Owerri. Did you not understand it's because Owerri people knew that before long, Orlu senatorial zone will be part or a whole new state?
Wherever wealth is found, crisis of divide and rule gets induced in the area. People in Rivers state were not originally know for thuggery. In the SE zone, we see what looks like Igbos killing Igbos. But never in history did the phenomenon exist. Nigeria at war with its people because of natural resources.
Return to True and Fiscal federalism under zonal or regional government system; we see these rumblings in Nigeria end.
irisher: You guys should stop educating these vil.age Orlu folks with their "victims cards playing mindset" because it's already in their genes. Ekeukwu Owerri Market was demolished by one of their brother in government to make way for that already dilapidated white elephant Imo International Market in Orlu. Most of the rich men in Orlu zone do not have any investments in Orlu region, they're either in Owerri or other Nigerian states. The folks that are happy of these proposed Orlu state are mostly lowlife Orlu villagers that want their region to become a capital and greedy Orlu politicians.
You wrote:
(2) white elephant international market in Orlu dillapidating.
(2) Orlu villagers want state capital in Orlu.
(3) greedy Orlu politicians.
Do you know that in 1976, when Owerri was made capital of Imo state, Owerri was a semi rural town of five villages? Do you know that in 1976, the difference in urban modern development between Owerri and Orlu was minimal? Do you know that because of this state creation which Owerri anticipates for Orlu zone, that's what made Owerri literally seize all government institutions that should induce human and economic development for Imo state, and got all located in Owerri area? Now you call Orlu village with only dillapidated white elephant market. Do you know that considering the history of states creation in the southeast, a 6th state for the southeast must come from Imo and Anambra States or from any of the two states?
Chikeluba25: By Implication are you saying that Anioma is not Igbo? Are u saying we should throw our child away with the bathing water? But Late. Gen. Chukwuma Nzogu is an Igbo man? History have it that onye Igbo led the first military coup right?
Anambra and Anioma are brothers as far as Igbo is concern... Atleast everyone noticed the closeness between Ifeanyi Okowa and Obiano during their tenure as governors. Everyone See's the closeness between Elumelu, Ossayi (former Delta dept speaker) and Anambra elites,... We inspire each other to grow Atleast Anioma state will increase Igbos voting power and number of Representatives both in Red and green chember.
Coming to government appointment, the number of appointmentees does not lie on number of state. Tinubu appointed 1 or 2 ministers for each southeast states but each Southwest state is counting 3 or more. Some northern states are as big as all southeast states yet each of these northern states have more government appointmentees than southeast counterparts.
Coming to development: Development is not when you divide every Igbo community/town into a state. If not, why is Orlu ppl still complaining even when their kinsmen hv been ruling Imo state from administration to administration? Development depends on the ppls mindset and orientation. I can prove it with fact.
No reasonable Igbo will think of having Anioma as the 6th state in the SE zone to further diminish Igbo political representation in Abuja; get it. A few parochial persons from one senatorial district in Imo state will not give a fcuck in supporting your Anioma as 6th state in the southeast region, but not all Igbos will be that stupeeed. After that, these parochial set in Imo state shall lead the cry of Igbo marginalisation in Nigeria.
Being in the Southsouth zone does not make the Aniomas less Igbo or disjointed from the Igbos of Southeast. Anioma in the Southsouth zone is at the strategic interest of the Igbos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh_a0xiVi-w?si=ebSRrt7ksABzkRhC Imagine the show of shame going on in Imo state...? I thought I hv seen it all. Orlu, Owerri, Okigwe against each other. How do you expect any reasonable person to desire to be associated with Imo divided against it's ownself? Even when Orlu zone has been in power for a decade; yet no development in Orlu... Instead they blame Owerri for marginalizing them, Owerri blam Orlu, Okigwe...
No wonder Rivers Igbo speaking communities next door to Imo state are distances self from Igbo, and one keep wondering... Why it is so when Anioma, Igala, and other Igbo speaking nations close to Anambra are very proud identifying their selves as Igbos.
What a shame. Meanwhile...
Igbos shall lose out again, and big time this time, if the SE legislators give a nod to Anioma as 6th state in the SE area; Igbo losing more political representation in Abuja, losing more from federal allocations etc etc. These Anambra south legislators said they were not consulted beforehand. Let them be consulted. It's unimaginable any learned person from Anambra south would wear the term Anambra like a King's crown. Anambra is a coinage by northern military dictators to denote Omambala River. Omambala River does not pass through Anambra South senatorial district.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh_a0xiVi-w?si=ebSRrt7ksABzkRhC Imagine the show of shame going on in Imo state...? I thought I hv seen it all. Orlu, Owerri, Okigwe against each other. How do you expect any reasonable person to desire to be associated with Imo divided against it's ownself? Even when Orlu zone has been in power for a decade; yet no development in Orlu... Instead they blame Owerri for marginalizing them, Owerri blam Orlu, Okigwe...
No wonder Rivers Igbo speaking communities next door to Imo state are distances self from Igbo, and one keep wondering... Why it is so when Anioma, Igara, and other Igbo speaking nations close to Anambra are very proud identifying their selves as Igbos.
What a shame. Meanwhile...
You need to visit the three senatorial zones of Imo state to see why. You will never believe that deteriorating Orlu and Okigwe areas belong to the same Imo state with ultra modern and rapidly expanding Owerri cities. Owerri has many cities.
Before 1999 was when people of Owerri zone laid the foundation for NO DEVELOPMENT IN ORLU AND OKIGWE AREAS; before civil rule, Owerri hid under "Owerri is capital naaa" and made all organs of government that induce developmment, be located in Owerri area. Even if gov comes from Orlu, with what does he induce population influx into Orlu? Population breeds developmment. Developmment does not come to a place in a vacuum.
Objectivist04: How does it sound to you that Soludo that is from Orlu state is the governor of Anambra state , during festive season when he needs to travel to his home town he will now go to another state and thereby leaving the state he is governing ryt ? If Orlu state materializes before 2025 Anambra election where is soludo going to vote since his polling unit is now in another state ?
Can you imagine a governor developing a state he is ruling but can not do anything in his hometown or local government because it is within another state ?
Pls it can't fly, it is just impossible
Do you not know that Nigeria's Constitution does not state that you must be origin of, or born in, a state before you can become governor of such a state?
Onyejerenima: We don't need market, I hope you are not building another market
You don't want gov Hope Uzodinma's more markets in your Owerri hometown? Why? Population drift from Orlu and Okigwe zones into Owerri has necessitated the markets in Owerri. This population drift to Owerri zone is because Owerri zone houses nearly all the federal and state ministries institutions and parastatals in Imo state, no consideration to leave even one development project in Orlu and Okigwe zones to develop from. A state or region where only one locality hosts more than 98% of govt development projects alone, attracts most of the population from the other parts of the state denied govt establishments - such a state is immersed in fraud. Now trending: due to migration to Owerri, modern generation of people from Orlu and Okigwe zones speak only Owerri dialect of Igbo language, adopt the culture and traditions of Owerri. Reasonable people from Orlu senatorial district are now bent on stopping the trend.
NwekereNdokl: Thunda faya you and your evil wishes. The Hon member shall be reelected because she has stated the wish of people she represents. Anambra doesn’t want to be part of your useless Orlu state. Know this and know peace
Chino of Igala with his multiple monikers commenting and replying himself, thunder kara aka and lightening will soon consume you if you don't hands off insulting groups and people. You can't hide anywhere when it gets serious. Enuf said. Go elsewhere. Your friend, Abagwor... is not here.
hurryup123: Ohaji egbema used to be under Owerri zone before Orlu people (Udenwa and co.) carved it out and joined to orlu zone ( so I read)
Sharrap. Senatorial districts were created before 1999. If Ohaji was once part of your Owerri zone, why did you not protest when ISOPADEC headquarters were built in Owerri instead of in Ohaji-Egbema-Oguta area? Delta stste oil producing headquarters is in oil producing Warri area, not in Asaba Owerri zone as became as whole is fast becoming one lsrge modern metropolis with proceeds from Ohaji-egbema-Oguta, whereas Ohaji-Egbema is like an abandoned property. Why? And @Ezewuzie 01that creates threads upandan to support his Anioma State, why don't you create threads to say why Anioma zone is better as a state than Orlu zone?
MrEverest: Stop talking like a drunk. Orlu zone has produced more governors in Imo state than Owerri and Okigwe zones combined. Achike Udenwa is from Orlu zone, he ruled for 8 years and built Imo international market in Orlu despite the fact that Owerri is the biggest city and thus would be more viable for it.
Rochas is from Orlu zone and he ruled for 8 years. He built a brand new university in his Orlu zone.
Hope Uzodinma is from Orlu zone and he will also rule for 8 years.
In your demonic greediness, your people have dominated governance in Imo state and despite the complains of other zones, you people insist on having your way. Yet, you have the guts to come online and be saying rubbish. If IMO state governors didn’t do anything for Orlu, when majority of them equally came from Orlu, why don’t you go and hold them responsible
You want to carry this demonic attitude to form another so you can also oppress them while crying at the same time Good luck to those that will be foolish enough to join you in your wild goose chase🤡
E ga awu ogbenye, wurukwa amusu
Zoning in Imo state was killed by Owerri zone. Owerri rejected Orlu and Okigwe zones as part of Imo state right from the period the present Imo State came to be.
Please allow Orlu zone be. Anambra people in ECS did not contest Imo state having natural resources leaving Anambra State in a new state.
Stop playing the false card of "we want reunion of Igbos outside SE through having a sixth state from outside the SE."
MrEverest: Stop talking like a drunk. Orlu zone has produced more governors in Imo state than Owerri and Okigwe zones combined. Achike Udenwa is from Orlu zone, he ruled for 8 years and built Imo international market in Orlu despite the fact that Owerri is the biggest city and thus would be more viable for it.
Rochas is from Orlu zone and he ruled for 8 years. He built a brand new university in his Orlu zone.
Hope Uzodinma is from Orlu zone and he will also rule for 8 years.
In your demonic greediness, your people have dominated governance in Imo state and despite the complains of other zones, you people insist on having your way. Yet, you have the guts to come online and be saying rubbish. If IMO state governors didn’t do anything for Orlu, when majority of them equally came from Orlu, why don’t you go and hold them responsible
You want to carry this demonic attitude to form another so you can also oppress them while crying at the same time Good luck to those that will be foolish enough to join you in your wild goose chase🤡
E ga awu ogbenye, wurukwa amusu
When who governs Imo state mattered most, Evans Enwerem, from Owerri zone, was gov of Imo state. That's when the present Imo State came to be. The actions and inaction of Enwerem govt and Olu-Owerri group made Imo state today's one city - Owerri - state. Enwerem literally deleted all govt development programmes earlier slated for Orlu and Okigwe zones.
(1) Enwerem moved the programme of regional water supply projects of Okigwe and Orlu under the rugs in his office but maintained Owerri regional water scheme already completed by Mbakwe administration. (2) Enwerem refused to commplete the work of urban drainage system and surfacing of the many urban roads in Orlu under construction before he inherited them in the new Imo state. Even state library in Orlu was closed down. Thereafter, the term state library started to be misconstrued as library only for the state capital. The state library in Owerri was established by East Central State government based in Enugu. Common AICE Campus in Orlu was closed down.
FUTO, AIFCE, FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC, FEDERAL COLLEGE OF LANDS AND SURVEY were all in Owerri when then gov Evan Enwerem ignored EQUITY and located Imo state University in Owerri. Nothing govt establishment in Orlu.
During the period, after present Imo State dragged what is now Abia state university with newly created Abia state, Oru-Owerri people met and swore that no government development project or institution to Imo state must be allowed to be located outside Owerri zone. Indeed, no government development project in Imo state was allowed in Orlu and Okigwe zones.
Cjrane2: Nobody is against a 6th State for the Southeast region. Nobody is even against your Orlu state from Orlu zone of Imo state. But you must learn to stop acting like you are smarter than everybody else in the world when indeed you are not. Orlu people always consider everyone else to be stupid except themselves! One thing the Owerri zone often complains about the Orlu people is that they are very sneaky, always trying to cheat, and always thinking that they are faster than their shadow.
So you truly want to put illustrious Igbo cities like Nnewi, Ozubulu, and Ihiala under Orlu but you wouldn't even consult them or offer any of them the capital of the new state as something in the whole deal for them? You just want to use them to achieve your dubious Orlu state and then maltreat them later inside the so-called "Orlu" state where they will always be reminded that they are Ndi-Ijekebe?
Watch the video of the Federal Representative from Nnewi and Ozubulu blasting the sneaky promoters of "Orlu" state for trying to include Nnewi and other major towns in Anambra under Orlu without even consulting them!
Sen Ned Nwoko, born Chinedu Nwoko, but removed Chi from his forename to avoid identification as Igbo.
Nwoko's five fingers explanation can only make sense to dimwits. If a human needs to increase parts of his body, he does not go to borrow a body tissue from outside; he regenerates it from his body. It's only a foolish Igbo from the SE who can't understand that Senator Nwoko is using a trick of "we want to rejoin our fellow Igbos in the SE zone" to get Anioma State and if he gets it, it's Waka and snub from Anioma to Igbos in the SE. Except for Asaba area, most of Anioma are people of "my surname be Okechukwu but I no be Ibo."
That man who made this video, if he is not from Asaba area, see him in Lagos and ask him if he is Igbo, he will answer you: no. Bottom line: Anioma State in Southsouth is at the strategic interest of the Igbo.
The legislators from Nnewi to Ozubulu said they were not consulted. Every saner Igbo will tell you that a sixth state for the southeast area must come from Anambra and Imo States, or from any of the two states, considering the history of states creation in todÿ southeast area.
Cjrane2: Nobody is against a 6th State for the Southeast region. Nobody is even against your Orlu state from Orlu zone of Imo state. But you must learn to stop acting like you are smarter than everybody else in the world when indeed you are not. Orlu people always consider everyone else to be stupid except themselves! One thing the Owerri zone often complains about the Orlu people is that they are very sneaky, always trying to cheat, and always thinking that they are faster than their shadow.
So you truly want to put illustrious Igbo cities like Nnewi, Ozubulu, and Ihiala under Orlu but you wouldn't even consult them or offer any of them the capital of the new state as something in the whole deal for them? You just want to use them to achieve your dubious Orlu state and then maltreat them later inside the so-called "Orlu" state where they will always be reminded that they are Ndi-Ijekebe?
Watch the video of the Federal Representative from Nnewi and Ozubulu blasting the sneaky promoters of "Orlu" state for trying to include Nnewi and other major towns in Anambra under Orlu without even consulting them!
Your Owerri people took 99.9% of all govt establishments and institutions to Imo state and got all located in Owerri during the military administrations; no consideration for what to leave to Orlu and Okigwe areas to induce human and economic development in Orlu and Okigwe areas.
As a result, you have cities of Old Owerri and New Owerri plus other emerging cities in your Owerri zone. Orlu and Okigwe deteriorate because of association with greedy people in the same Imo state. Owerri even tricked a new military gov of Imo state to close the Orlu campus of Alvan Ikoku College of Education, after Mbakwe administrstion and the World Bank spent millions of Naira to establish the campus in Orlu. Owerri told the military gov that a campus of Alvan Ikoku College of Education outside Owerri cannot be viable. Even the university teaching hospital establiished in Orlu, no Owerri born patient ever attended for treatment in the hospital until the teaching hospital became morribund.
Knowing your primitive greed, by the time everywhere in Owerri zone is fully urbanised with modern infrastures, you people will like to ask IMSG to deck the whole of Owerri zone for a new ultra modern Owerri city.
The results of the EVIL THINGS you people did and still do to Orlu and Okigwe zones have manifested clearly. Imo state is the only state in the southeast with only one modern city. Development does not come from nothing; nothing left for Orlu and Okigwe zones despite that some governors came from the two zones.
Nigerians condemn your primitive greed of locating every govt thing of Imo state in Owerri before 1999.
Owerri knew that they are more related to Ikwerre than to either Orlu or Okigwe. That's why Owerri lobbied for and collected all govt establishments and institutions that should induce human and economic devlooment in all of Imo state and got them all located in Owerri zone.
In disguise, you have now come to do your witchcraft against Orlu leaving your Owerri for a different state.
You know that the 12 local government areas of Orlu zone are big and populated enough to have a state. But parts of Anambra south are our kit and kin in Orlu zone. We need them as much as they need us. Your Owerri zone alone has amassed excess wealth from creation of Imo state. Owerri zone can now sustain itself as a state. Take your eyes away from Orlu state proposal.
bestman09: FG should declare this erosion site as a state of emergency as Abia state can not handle this situation talk less of individuals. May God help us
This is why people ask for return to true and fiscal federalism under zonal or regional government system. Robbing Paul to pay Peter has continued for more than 50 years. Gully erosion and environmental pollution devastate the areas being robbed to feed other areas. Nigeria has the most wicked type of governance system in the world. 13% derivation to the areas devastated by gully erosion linked to exploitation of natural resources is like a scratch compared to the environmental degradation on the areas that harbour the natural resources.
survemeka: Please let's come together to save our fellow Nigerians passing through this difficulty. Kindly share this video till it gets to the right authority and God will bless you.
Wow. Like Aba like Ideato-Orlu in Imo state. It's on record that the federal government of Nigeria takes charge of addressing the menace of gully erosion.
Chino of Igala, continue instead to use your dozens of monikers on Nl to upvote any one who says "we don't want part of Anambra State cut out," stop replying to my comment.
Odibembem: You are beating your chest for fiscal federalism as if d SE is ready for it. Talk is cheap, how many SE states joined Rivers State in d suit before d Supreme Court to cede VAT collections to states as it's a sales tax and not covered in d exclusive list? Only Lagos was bold enough, no SE states joined d suit. Infact Ebonyi openly pleaded that VAT should remain as it is because she would suffer immensely should VAT go to states. The SE is as parasitic to the Niger Delta and Lagos as Zamfara and Yobe are, let's be honest here. BTW am Edo, Anambra or Imo doesn't contribute to d federation account from oil as much as we do, no state in d entire SE has IGR even close to us so chill, talk is cheap. It's good to know ur place in the Nigerian federation so that butterflies don't start thinkingof themselves as birds just cos they can fly. Kind regards
Nothing when you don't even understand the difference between IGR and GDP. Human Development index must have been your blindspot. You be Edo? Unarguably from Auchi far north of Edo state, you get share of 13% from derivation by mere association. You come here to exclude the oil producing states- Imo, Anambra and Abia - from your own map of Niger delta region to suit your purpose. You don't even know where Niger delta region began and ended. In your poor mindset, Niger delta region is the oil producing states in the Southsouth.
Do you fully understand what VAT stands for? It's Valued Added Tax. Tax after sales, sort of. Much of the VAT derived from sales are from businesses by easterners in shops all over Nigeria. How much VAT is generated in your own side of Nigeria? Tiny. The SE does not normally join those suits it knows that the judges appointed by the ruling party must influence their judgment. Ebonyi is not a business state, therefore no surprises with the side it took on VAT.
In 2024
Lagos State — GDP: ₦41.17 trillion. ... Rivers State — GDP: ₦7.96 trillion. ... Akwa Ibom State — GDP: ₦7.77 trillion. ... Imo State — GDP: ₦7.68 trillion. ... Delta State — GDP: ₦6.19 trillion. ... Anambra State — GDP: ₦5.14 trillion. ... Ondo State — GDP: ₦5.10 trillion.
Parasite like you should not participate when matters of revenue generation in Nigeria is on the table.