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I remember in 2006 or so when then governor Ngige was rooting for Njaba as a sixth state between Imo and Anambra states in the southeast area. Has Buhari government created the merited 6th state in the southeast?
If Igbos are not marginalized in Nigeria, why then was Ngige rooting for a 6th state in the Southeast when he was governor?

eduj:
There is no possible way to uplift the whole of Imo state at once .You develop gradually, then spread to the outskirts.
That's how it has always been and will continue to be.
Do you think imo has the necessary funds to urbanise the whole of imo state at a go?

For saner people in government anywhere in the world, development does not concentrate on one place and spread to other places like you stated.

It has always been build infrastructures in Enugu, build in Onitsha, in Owerri, in Aba, in etc of old East Central State at the same time.

Idiko1:
Niger Delta does not exist in the intellectual sense. When River Niger and River Benue formed a confluence in Lokoja, the flow toward southern protectorate is no longer River Niger.

From Lokoja to the Atlantic Ocean, two rivers that merged are not given the recognition the merger deserves.

Anyhow, Niger Delta Nomenclature is another divide and rule tactic devised by those for who Nigeria’s civil war was won. They use it as stick or carrot depending on the situation at hand.
Unfortunately, the people in the so-called Niger delta area struggle to identify with the name because of the little percentage from derivation paid to the states in that Niger delta area, according to amount of oil resources from every state in the area.

eduj:
Don't over-hype lagos .Much of Lagos is battling same problem we have in the East.Unless we make away with this unitary government, no SE city will be like that in 50 years time.
Don't you see that the only places in Nigeria (lagos & Abuja)which can be compared to some developed cities world wide are the cities that has had Federal funds dedicated to developing them ?
And that is why lagos is pushing to be recognized as a special status state.
If Nigeria have had a president who can devote 1 trillion Naira for 4 consecutive years on Infrastructure alone,across Nigeria's most important cities, we can have cities like that- but Nigeria hasn't had a working president since independence.
Nepotism clouds everything in this country.
Imagine infusing 40 billion per year into Onitsha,Aba, owerri and Enugu just for infrastructure alone- for 4 consecutive years ?
Replicate it allover the zones in Nigeria and you get to see miracles happen.For a country with over 3 trillion Naira burgers,we can do this if the will is there

Infuse the billions of government funds in building Owerri, Onitsha, Enugu, Aba every year for four consecutive years.

But invest pittance or nothing in building and maintaining infrastructures in Nsukka, Orlu, Okigwe, Nnewi etc; and in the other local government areas in the east -

- be assured, shortly after the four years, urban slums like the ones in Abuja and Lagos shall spring up nearer those towns you invested the billions, while devastation and arrested development are what you shall get in the towns government invested pittance.

Ndi let IMSG build Owerri to mega city, let crumble the other urban towns in Imo state; there is no amount of bizarre suggestions you people will not make to IMSG over your desire for Owerri.

eduj:
you're partly right,but it wasn't a mistake.None of them worked firstly because ike Nwachukwu and buhari happened.
Then a man like mbakwe who so loved his people will find it hard to imagine that knowing what the igbo had and is passing through, that igbomen like ogbonnaya onu,udenwa, Ouk,T a orji will systematically destroy the strong foundation he laid .
The gas pipeline he built to aba today is the reason almost 30 years later ,aba has the highest number of multinational companies in the East. The water infrastructure he begun are still the foundation of water schemes in aba and owerri, concord hotel is still standing today.
If that man had completed his second tenure, old imo state wold have been something else and that's why one of the first things ikechukwu omar Nwachukwu did was to sell out the new power turbines bought for the power plant mbakwe built. Ironically,a developing south korea bought that equipment .
Ouk leased the biggest glass factory in Nigeria out to the Indians (mbakwe built it at aba).A factory that produced the windscreens Nigeria import today, the glass plates we import today ,the glass sheets for windows we import today etc.
And what did the Indians do ? They dismantled the machinery (apart from the bottle making machines) and sold them off.

If Mbakwe had completed his 2nd term, as you wished, today’s Imo, Abia and parts of Ebonyi state would have developed nearer to be a Dubai in Africa.
Mbakwe started to build for all the zones of the then Imo state the type of water supply projects that are in use in Europe, America, and indeed, in the modern world of today. He understood that treated public water supply system is the foundation of modern development in an area; not high rise buildings.
He followed that with mini industries in all the LGAs, mapped out industrial zones in Owerri, Aba, Umuahia, Orlu and Okigwe.
Followed that with Amaraku Electricity generating plant.
With these in place, and if allowed to progress....

But his civilian successors in office led first, by Evan Enwerem, abandoned all these.

In 20 months as governor, Enwerem was only after development of his Owerri district. He ensured that Owerri water project only functioned, cornering universities to Owerri, abandoned urban roads and drainage contract of his predecessors in Orlu when Abia state was carved out from old Imo state. If Enwerem as first civilian successor to Mbakwe had completed Okigwe water supply project and started work on that for Orlu zone, but he watched the billions of Naira sunk into the projects waste, instead, he got more interest in locating IMSU in Owerri where other university, AICE, and polytechnic existed.
Enwerem set the stage for the ongoing way of seeing Imo state with its development process as an affair of Owerri. Successive governors copy from that.

Asking state government to build high rise buildings in Owerri, or go into PPP to do that, in a state where less than 1% of the population have access to common treated portable water. Foolishness. Private water boreholes is NEVER a system of public water supply.

Glad that Rochas Okorocha was stopped from succeeding himself through his son-in-law as governor of Imo state. If not, he would have collapsed to pressures by nit wits to use federal allocations of the local government areas to build skyscrapers in Owerri, so as to make more people see his acts in Owerri and call him a good presidential material. The same manner they pressured him for flyovers in Owerri where roundabouts would have been okay, and pressure to make Owerri a Dubai in Africa; no consideration of the fact that rest of Imo state outside Owerri are like in the 20th century stage.

Hope Uzodinma is more matured in governance. He will never yield to the demands of these nit wits.

Juliusmalema2:
Ur craze na follow come. U asked someone to build a sky scraper in Owerri cos he was demanding that government does so; in same way I asked that u should also build a university in Orlu, since u always hammer on 'there are no higher institutions in Orlu'. Guy, abeg fix ur madness!

A govt-subsidized university is meant to educate people and usher economic development in area located.
High rise buildings are built by private investors in places with overflowing population and industrial/ service business clusters that will occupy them and pay commensurate rent. How many industrial/service business clusters of mass employment are in Owerri?
The high rise buildings they desire in Owerri must sink individual water boreholes, as nearly every business and rich households in Owerri do; until landslides set in from breaking the underlying rocks for boreholes water in Imo state —-

In bold: you are sane. Na you win. Any other form of insult? Characteristics of poorly educated person.

Juliusmalema2:
Why haven't u built one university in 0rlu?

Did you build the universities in Owerri?

Do you know the cost of providing treated running water to just one LGA in a state like Imo?

The present government is grappling with providing treated running water to the people of Imo state, while some ignoramuses, including you, here are chattering boxes of how IMSG or private businesses can build high rise buildings in Owerri.
Rochas Okorocha pampered some of you people as his drive to become president of Nigeria made him waste 8 years funds of the LGAs of Imo state in building useless edifices in Owerri and his private businesses.

sanctity454:
A cluster mid-highrise building of 10 floors can't be a bad investment in Owerri economically speaking, the campaign is for moderate high rise building not 15floors and above kinda buildings

Build one first in Owerri. If it’s occupied for business and residential purposes and yields profit to you, others shall follow.

EkiranAlexmedia:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/stop-attacking-buhari-he-has-restructured-nigeria-yahaya-bello-slams-southern-govs/%3famp

It’s either this governor does not understand what the south wants to be restructured or he is a deceptive person.
What he said was restructured are just like drops of water in the ocean.
He does not talk about merging some non viable states and representative constituencies created at all nooks and crannies in the north to suck up revenues from the south, or creating equalization states in the southern regions being politically under-represented in Abuja.

rtdCivilservant:
This one no de ever make sense.

Wow. I can only make sense before you when I ask IMSG to build Underground Metro Transportation system, build sky scrappers and more flyovers in Owerri which has no public water supply system; even as rain floods are carrying away your village outside Owerri due to absence of common drainage systems - no good roads.

Ortom is a hero, a grand success as governor.


If eastern governors are truthful and successful as Ortom, Fulani herdsmen would have been restricted by now to their 12 sharia states in northern Nigeria.

IDENNAA:
I dont care where this happens but whenever I see a well planned city with central sewage treatment area, pipe borne water, well designed street with side walk, trees, grass and roads without sand dunes it makes me happy because I don't think an average Nigerian understands what a society with basic amenities mean.

Apt.
But do many of us know that Modern City without common public water supply system does not exist.
In Imo state, successive governors after 2007 brag about that they are doing clean and green city, or building Owerri capital city of international standard or designer’s delight.

Some ask governors to build skyscrapers in the city for a beautiful city skyline. Nobody asks, how can the skyscrapers function without public water supply system?
They may soon start to ask governor for underground metro transport system in Owerri but are not bothered by the fact that water borne diseases are a plague in Imo state as people consume untreated water from private water boreholes.

If all the money being pumped since 2013 into building boulevards in Owerri had gone into provision of public water supply to all of Imo state, the present population burst in Owerri wouldn’t have been.

Abagworo:
Some parts of Imo State have deep water basin and need this more. Those areas will appreciate it more and safeguard it from being vandalized. I'm sure that Orlu guy on this thread will soon come ranting cause they are involved

Orlu guy ranting?
After he joined APC, your mentor, Rochas Okorocha thought that by making development in Imo state an affair of only Owerri, more people would see his development prowess in Owerri and use that to see him as good presidential material.

Apart from the fact that he was later declared persona non grata in Owerri by indigenes of Owerri, he has gone to sleep in custody at EFCC, but according to him: gone to inspect the facilities of EFCC.” So far, his presidential ambition parked by the EFCC.

Even today, the legs walking wara wara are seen by the eyes looking zaam zaam. Imo state governors from Orlu zone since 2011 receive allocations to build the state, but they scrap and rebuild or expand what has already been built in Owerri ages ago, abandon the other areas of the state to rot. So long Orlu is abandoned, so long their respective hometowns near Orlu remain abandoned. Politicians from outside Imo state ask: is Owerri the only place in Imo state? Tomorrow is still pregnant.

As for your water supply talk, from all indications, politicians from Orlu senatorial district fighting one another don’t have any regard for themselves, talk less, regard for people in the district, not to talk about providing pipe borne water to their people.
You heard Okorocha as governor say he was building Owerri to international standard, and heard Uzodinma say he was building Owerri to designer’s delight. They would never mention any other place in Imo state by name. Is that how normal people govern a state?

kuuljay:
He wants to develop his village that's commendable but nsuka is too far away from enugu metropolis,who will be using the stadium

Must most of the people in Enugu state continue to live in Enugu? If the government makes Nsukka to be a modern livable town, population shall shift to Nsukka area for permanent residence. Don’t be like some myopic people of Imo state who don’t see any other town in the state worthy of anything modern.

ashiwaju2010:
Construction of the football pitch of the ongoing Nsukka Township Stadium project, in #Enugu State, with other engineering works, for sporting activities and youth engagement at the grassroots level, in line with Governor Ifeanyi #Ugwuanyi administration’s rural development agenda, in progress...

Nd’Imo ndewonu.

The stadiums Okorocha and Udenwa started in Orlu are rotting away. The last two governors have rebuilt and rebuilt the stadium in Owerri, because they don’t come from Orlu. Imo state needs thorough healing.

EVideos:
Governor Hope Uzodimma's house set ablaze in Imo state. Full video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXo12gCEDPA

Ebewu. Attacking their homes in their villages is not good, as they have fled to capital city but refused to make their hometowns and neighboring LGAs look like capital city.

Nearly every government development infrastructure and amenities you find in Asaba exists in Warri and Sapele.
Rochas Okorocha finished urban renewal, expansion and development of Owerri, abandoned Orlu Municipal LGA to rot; stepped down from office and was declared persona non grata in Owerri by natives of Owerri led by Hon Uche Onyeagocha.

emmabest2000:
Wonderful Wonder

Student at Accra in day time
Barman at Owerri in the night


Super busy

Congrat him first,

Accra is his university town.


Owerri is his business and new hometown.

His native hometown is pitiably abandoned property.

With a few roads connecting his Ogboko to Nkwerre-Orlu-Orsu-Oru areas, and possibly public water supply system in the area with the university he wanted to claim named a government university, Okorocha government would have realized the largest modern city in Imo state.
But shortsightedness would not allow Rochas then.

Hope Uzodinma government has rightly retrieved the university in Ogboko. Uzodinma may shame Rochas Okorocha, realize one or two other modem cities in Imo state.

Hundreds of Imo pensioners and civil servants owed pensions and salaries by Rochas Okorocha government met their untimely deaths due to frustration, as Okorocha joined APC and started to use the allocations meant for development of the 27 LGAs to build federal prison, police headquarters, statues, squares, etc in Owerri state capital. His presidential ambition made him believe that by concentrating on urban development and expansion of Owerri with building edifices in the town, more people shall take him as a good presidential material.

He abandoned the urban renewal process he started in Orlu and Okigwe. More people must have died of lung disease from breathing dust on the urban roads he scrapped and abandoned in Orlu and other places in the state. Floods wrecked many parts of Orlu because Okorocha refused to complete common urban drainage gutter.
Rochas created and left this ugly legacy of urban development in a state is an affair of only state capital.
Anyone painting Okorocha as a good governor and developer of a state is mischievous and most pristine.

rtdCivilservant:
Are u not tired of repeating same thing over and over and over? By now, one would have expected that u should have started building some infrastructures in Orlu so that others will follow.

But repeating the same thing all over again all the time about Owerri and Owerri and Owerri on what can be done to make Owerri develop and become more - that’s what you and others with little IQ do here on a thread meant for development process of a whole Imo state.

Tired? Not until you and people of your sort develop more sense to understand that you are encouraging government and other developers to continue to pile up population in one or two Owerri LGAs of a state with 27 LGAs.

With your too many monikers, you lead the bunch of retarrds like you here in repeating the same thing all over again about Owerri.

huncho22:
nooo rochas will open ur village for u ? Whats the work of members of house or rep and senators what are their duties ? Just to eat money alone?

My home LGA, Orlu, is not a village as you would want it to be, but the second largest urban center in Imo state after Owerri. If good roads and other urban infrastructures are provided in Orlu by IMSG, Orlu shall be a larger metropolitan city than Owerri.

It’s not senators and reps from Owerri that build the infrastructures in Owerri.

You continue to expose how heediotic and primitive your mindset is made up.

huncho22:
u are just talking out of hatred , mtcheew weda u like it or not rochas opened most parts of Owerri

Your love for a governor Rochas for opening most parts of Owerri....
Rochas never extended even one meter of urban expansion to other parts of Imo state in 8 years as governor of Imo state.

Your most primitive mindset would not allow you ask questions as to what can be done by our government to make entire Imo state have modern development institutions and amenities supplied by government; as you have them in Owerri - often in duplicate, and even in triples. You rather insult who asks questions.

huncho22:
you are a foolish man

Lol. And you don’t understand that a most stupid and primitive person is that who takes delight in discussing about one tiny spot - Owerri - in a thread meant for discussion of Imo state and its development process?

huncho22:
u well at all ? Na government dey build the hotels ? U are even wrong in rivers State obio okpo and port Harcourt local government are not oil producing lgas but the best hotels , are located there , meanwhile oil producing lgas are like shit hole

Shut up. Do hotels get built in areas where roads barely exist, like in the oil producing areas of Ohaji/Egbema in Imo state?

If you ask me whether I am well or not, you foolishly believe you have insulted me.

anselem87:
I don't know when we will start seeing 21 century modern hotels in our cities, hotel with underground car parks etc that's how it's done in developed countries. we can't keep on building poor structures

In Delta or some other oil producing states, the best hotels are found in the oil producing areas.

In Imo state, the hotels are in Owerri but not in oil producing Ohaji/Egbema area where oil money comes from into the coffers of IMSG, but the money is used in urban development of Owerri; sustaining all government institutions of development in Owerri; economically over-empowering the native land owners in Owerri area.
You turn around to abuse me from Orlu, Orlu which is also cheated like Ohaji/Egbema areas.

PROUDIGBO:
These investments are commendable! Hope they’re not all scattered all over the state, but are located in a serviced industrial estate! This industrial estate should be located in another senatorial zone, so development can spread evenly around the entire state!

In bold. Mbakwe’s government acquired industrial estates at Amike-Orlu and in Okigwe. Those estates are still not encroached into.
Emeka Ihedioha talked only about revitalization of Owerri industrial zone till he left office.

Tertiary education institutions in Owerri zone have zoomed off modern development and urban expansion in Owerri zone.

So it all depends on what type of governor in Imo state who can understand that the other two senatorial zones in the state need the industry factor to induce development in them.

A governor who does not understand a thing will pile up everything up in Owerri; and tell us: because Owerri is state capital. Lol.

Ngorbungor:
I am old in enough to know that Orlu Zone have produced three governors and still counting but you guys can't hold your brother's responsible for the low infrastructural development in your area.

Man, here you got me on the jugular.
Kudos.

rtdCivilservant:
Oga go and rest o

rtdCivilservant.

In one sentence you call me oga.
In the next sentence, you tell me I am spewing rubbish and even call me mad.
Examine your head well well ooo.
I will stop replying you.
This thread is made for Imo state - not for Owerri, as you, and some bunch of retards want it.

RareDiamond:
"He who comes to Equity must come with clean hands"
You want justice for Orlu zone but you support injustice against Other zones. You are an unjust, selfish and bias person.
It will always be well with Okigwe zone.

By Owerri politicians cornering all government development institutions in Imo state for Owerri zone, they established inequity and injustice against Okigwe and Orlu senatorial districts.

Problem with some of you is that you believe equity is only meant for sharing governorship post and other political posts.
Equity demands that if FUTO for example, is in Owerri zone, IMSU must be in either Orlu or Okigwe zone. That’s how it’s in many other states.

Ngorbungor:
Mr man Owerri have been urbanised since time immemorial, please stop this child's talk

When were you born?

I knew that there were little differences in the levels of urban development between Owerri, Orlu and Okigwe in 1976 when Imo state was created.