₦airaland Forum

Ngorbungor:
Please leave Owerri Zone for us in peace, see ooo!! we that just had 8 to 9 month as governor since 1999, don't want us to rest as if we put a gun on the head of those useless governors for Owerri infrastructural development

In bold.
Gun on the heads of governors from Orlu senatorial district to develop only Owerri is by Owerri seizing all government development institutions in Imo state for only Owerri senatorial district. That prompts population flooding Owerri area. That necessitates governors to build infrastructures in Owerri area to contain the urban expansion in Owerri area.

The present governor should have been bold to locate IMSU permanent in the KO MBADIWE campus in Ideato, as recommended by professors in Ihedioha government committee.

Ngorbungor:
Sometimes I wonder how you guys reason, Orlu Zone has produced 3 governor since 1999, spent 18years in office still counting, and you are here ranting, don't hold us for [b]your ignorance and stupidity [/b]instead vent it on Udenwa, Rochas and Hope

No saner person would see what I wrote as borne of ignorance and stupidity.

Or were you referring to Udenwa, Okorocha and Hope as stupid?

anselem87:
we from ohaji and oguta are more valuable that ur useless Orlu yet we don't rant like u Sitholes, anu mpama

Mugu. Express your frustrations with those smart Alecs who used every governor of Imo state since 1999 to plough the 13% payments from oil money to develop their Owerri senatorial district, assuming you are truly from Ohaji/Egbema/Oguta area.

RareDiamonds:
A lack of consideration for justice and equity in Imo State would have serious consequences for the state. Owerri zone have the Imo State specialist hospital, mother and child hospital in addition to the proposed teaching hospital. No just and fair minded person would want Orlu zone to have two government teaching hospitals when Okigwe zone have non

Obowo local goverment is a good location because they have enough population and surrounded by highly populated local government areas, the location is very economically viable, the Owerri to Umuahia federal road pass through Obowo local government area and they have available lands.
Isiala and Ehime Mbano local government areas are also good locations as they have the population, surrounded by highly populated local government areas, the location is very economically viable, they host the Umuahia to Orlu and Owerri to Okigwe federal roads and they have available lands.

In bold: where went justice and equity all the time Owerri senatorial district hosts FUTO, IMSU, AIFCE, FEDPOLYNEKEDE, FERCOLAT?
Idea thing about teaching hospital now is convert Imo state university teaching hospital in Orlu to a federal university teaching hospital, that has been the demands of past governors of Imo state.
Owerri area has developed, Owerri urban center has expanded beyond recognition through all the tertiary education institutions located in it.
We need to use federal development institutions to stimulate development in the 2nd largest urban center — Orlu- in Imo state.

anselem87:
only university can bring development to Orlu nothing more, nnewi people are developing their town why can't Orlu do so, u think university is a good thing nonsense

So university is not a good thing.

It’s obvious you never attended university, your writings show that.

Universities in Owerri led to development of the area. You want Orlu people to forfeit their federal allocations but contribute money to develop their area.

sanctity454:
Okigwe zone, like isiala mbano or obowo...
For economic viability the hospital should be sited at oguta/ Mgbidi axis, or nekede/ ihiagwa axis, Mbaise/ Ngor okpala axis , Umuna okigwe.

If present governor is Emeka Ihedioha, the teaching hospital MUST be located in Owerri senatorial district.

But see how you tactically excluded Oru East and Orlu/Nkwere/Njaba/Ideato axis.

FYI, it did not start today. Past governors of Imo state had pleaded with the federal government to convert Imo state university teaching hospital Orlu to a federal university teaching hospital. This would have been an ideal time if Minister Nwajiuba and his compatriot at the Federal Health Ministry are on the same page with the people of Imo state.
At least, the facilities are already on ground in Orlu.

sanctity454:
IMO STATE PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

INTERACTION BETWEEN THE IMO STATE COMMISSIONER FOR WORKS, BARR. RALPH NWOSU AND THE SPECIAL ADVISER TO THE GOVERNOR PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT, PRINCE EZE UGOCHUKWU

#Q. How many roads have we commissioned?

#Ans. We've commissioned 22 roads so far. Most of them in Owerri, and understandably so.

#Q. What is the durability of these roads in terms of project monitoring. How efficient is the project monitoring arm of the ministry?

#Ans. Very, very efficient. I have resident engineers, in addition we have assistant resident engineers. We have layers of supervision from the ministries moreover the Special Advisers on Project Monitoring from the three zones are always on site to look at what is happening. Even the governor himself is not left out in the supervision and monitoring exercise.

#Q. In terms of the drainages on these roads, do you take seriously the deliveries of the contractors on the drainages?

#Ans. That's the most important thing because, if you don't do it, the whole road funiture will collapse. Drainages are even more important. If you get it wrong, that's the end of the road. But some people just look at the asphalt. In most cases, asphalt is like paint, if the base is not there, you're wasting your time.

#Q. Orlu road is progressing very well. The last time I checked, they're at Umuaka in Njaba LGA. What's happening with the Owerri - Okigwe Road.

#Ans. That's ongoing. Owerri to Okigwe is ongoing. The delay we experienced was due to the fact that the initial design was 9 metres. We increased the width from 9 to 12.3 metres. We had to get the consultants to redesign it. We have one of the best consultants on that road, Deloitte and Touche. They're the one managing the projects plus our own internal mechanism.

#Q. Do you have timeline completion for the project?

#Ans. Yes. It's for 18 months. With the technology they are applying and availability of funds, we should be able to deliver that road within the projected time frame.

#Q. For the Owerri - Okigwe Road, do you have plans for any palliatives as the rainy season approaches?

#Ans. We are already doing that at Añara, Amaraku. Akabo is okay now. At Ekemele we have a rigid platform there now at the black spot. So it will not have any problem.

#Q. Do you have any plans for the rural roads too?

#Ans. Of course. Our earth moving equipments will soon move into the zones. We just wanted to clear a few administrative issues and then go in. We don't have all the money in the whole world. Our next move is to the zones. We will tackle Orlu zone and Okigwe. We have three ongoing roads now in Okigwe zone already.

#Q. What of Ideato area. Issues of erosion are more pronounced there.

#Ans. They are part of the areas we will move in. But we did some palliatives in Ideato during the Christmas period. The erosion there is unbelievable. One of the longest roads in that area was done under Ikedi Ohakim era, Nigercat Construction Company did that road. The road has developed some faults here and there. Only two days ago, I despatched our engineers to go and assess that road. I will send their report to his Excellency for approval.

#Q. What is your message to the people of Ideato North and South?

#Ans. Of course they will have their roads done. We are for everybody. We will not patronize some areas and abandon others. We will be even-handed in the spread of projects.

#Q. Is there any other thing you will like to tell us in terms of the performance of your ministry. Your message to Imo people.

#Ans. What we have done is there for everybody to see, and it tells you what we can do if given the opportunity and if we have enough money. We are doing the roads to stand the test of time. No government should be praised for constructing a road, because that's what you're supposed to do in the first place. If we have done that in the last eight years, no body will be talking about roads by now. We would have freed funds for other sectors and develop other facilities.

#Q. I saw what is happening at Naze/Timber Market road up to Road Safety junction in Egbu. Are you taking it to Orji as part of the inner ring road?

#Ans. We will take construction to Orji. We will get there. There is also an intervention that is happening there. That road was under contract. NDDC intervened in that particular segment of the road. But during the last rainy season, the area almost submerged. So we had to call back the contractor. NDDC came and instead of the Naze stretch, we asked them to construct the Egbu/Road Safety junction to Orji. While we handle the Naze to Road Safety junction. We are now doing the Naze to Egbu junction, while they're now putting their acts together to tackle the Egbu to Orji section.

#Q. What of the MCC to Toronto. Any plans of going beyond Toronto junction?

#Ans. What we're doing at the MCC to Toronto junction is a prelude. Once we get to Toronto, we will cross it to Uratta. Just the same thing we're doing at the World Bank Road. Once we get to the last roundabout, we will proceed to Umuguma village.

#Q: How is the World Bank Road going? I see ongoing work at the Cubana Section.

#Ans: : That area is the lowest point on that road. The flooding in that area is very heavy, but with what we are doing now, we will contain it and solve the problem

#Q: Are you going to take the road rehabilitation to some sections of Yar'dua Drive?

#Ans: Once we solve the problem with the drains we are doing at the World Bank Road, we will now connect to Yar'dua drive. No matter what you do at Yar'dua road without taking out the sluge water there, it will collapse. The water there is going no where, so we need to fix the drains there and take the water from Everyday Supermarket to Nwaorie River.

#Q: Some people are saying that, why should we commison roads of less than 5 kilometres without taking full cognizance of drainage components, especially the balloon technology at Chukwuma Nwoha road and environs.

#Ans: Apart from the balloon Technology, people did not realize that Chukwuma Nwoha was the most problematic road we have done, even within the internal roads we are doing.
The inner ring roads we are doing are supposed to come from Bishop's Court up to Chukwuma Nwoha to Egbu and underground across the road into Otammiri River. When we designed it then in 2007 and 2011, we could not do it because of the cost implication. No other administration could do it because they could not attack the drainage problem. It is not the length of the road, but the importance of the road that matters.
The balloon Technology is something we are happy about.

In bold.
No government does “finish development in one zone before moving to the next zone.” My university, in fact, no university, would teach that; because finishing in one zone first means forcing influx of people into the zone you want to finish first.

Chisos of Ndi Orumbe!!

dynicks:
To think this same man was so much loved and voted massively by imolites before he became the governor eh!

Truly power intoxicates and then would ones true self gets revealed....This man was totally greedy and a total failure when it comes to governance...

Meanwhile Mr HOPE OZODIMGBA from a distance right now.....GOING....GOING...

Greed, tricks and primitive acquisitions were Okorocha’s nemesis as governor.

As he stole Imo state dry, he started to build fancy houses and roads in the state capital with the belief he would silence opposition to his style of government.
He did not understand that the larger society beyond his praise singers in Imo state was watching his footsteps. The larger society is now handling him, from where Hope Uzodinma stopped. Uzodinma had since recovered loads of Okorocha’s landed properties he used the funds of the state to build.

Kwanza:
https://thenationonlineng.net/okorocha-in-efcc-custody-for-alleged-n7-9b-fraud/

The selfish Okorocha destroyed the university teaching hospital in Orlu near his hometown in a bid to build this private hospital in Owerri.
He dismantled expensive hospital equipments from the university teaching hospital to equip this hospital in Owerri.

The present governor has started rebuilding and equipping the teaching hospital .

Okorocha raped Imo state in 8 years.

fergie001:
AIT

Is Okorocha held at the Prisons he wasted the federal allocations of the lgas of Imo state to build in Owerri? Mega city man.

kirajustice:
POLITICSNIGERIA.COM



SOURCE: https://politicsnigeria.com/breaking-rochas-okorocha-arrested-by-efcc-for-money-laundering/

Awuuu. Okorocha who because of his presidential ambition wasted Imo and 27 lgas federal allocations building fancy edifices in the state capital, as he said he was building Owerri mega city to international standard.

The present governor says he is building Owerri to designer’s delight.

Okorocha was later banished from Owerri.

Smearing your brother’s name without any evidence because of dirty politics.


It’s getting to two years you people from Imo West are on top of governance in Imo state, but achieved only plastering Owerri roads with coal tar.

In two years, Okorocha had done a lot for his senatorial district.

Unified07:
from the comments above I can state categorically clear unapologetic that YORUBAS are the biggest enemies of IGBOS


is it not an Owerri man that post the picture to create awareness,Igbos don't laugh in suffering that's why they bring up there problem openly for all to see.... finally the igbos must continue to succeed even with your hates rubbish

In bold:
They are experts in blackmailing every governor of Imo state to do development only in Owerri. If we ask why: they tell us proudly: “because Owerri is state capital .”

EMMY76:
Supleme court governor is using imo state monthly federal allocations to settle his fulani masters that brought him to power.

The so-called Supreme Court governor has reconstructed chains of Owerri urban roads.

Only one road he has reconstructed in the headquarters of his senatorial district. Nobody can satisfy my Owerri people; all they want is carry Imo state wholesale with a governor from their zone.

anselem87:
I wish u used ur brain all this while u were making this noise

If I were the governor, any bad road in Owerri which you people post online, I will not reconstruct that road till I leave office.
You people think that you get sense pass others in Imo state.

In 8 years, Okorocha built on Owerri area but rest of the state left far behind .

zudozz:
story!

Nonsense and ingredient!

Sponsored by the enemy of the governor.

The same people started with roads in Owerri to blackmail the governor right from Day 1.

The governor yielded and has paved loads of Owerri roads.

They now want the governor for rural roads in Owerri. No consideration for any other urban area in Imo state.

All these people on roads in Owerri.
This is Orlu zonal fire station.

Linda Ikeji blog site featured it in 2018 and called it the shame of Imo state.
None of these people raised eyebrow.

Okorocha demolished the modern fire station in Owerri and built new one along Okigwe road in Owerri.


Abi, IMSG must use gold to pave all roads in Owerri, no attention to any other parts of Imo state so that we can rest in Imo state?

Mokason288:
Those people saying transportation is expensive in
BORNO
ABUJA
BAUCHI
SOKOTO

Should visit Oweri ...

Transportation is crazy in Owerri and no one is complaining because
1... Igbo’s are very Rich

2... No governor in imo state... what they have is Supreme Court Governor




I HOPE I MADE SENSE

To reduce the crazy transportation fee and traffic congestion in Owerri, Let Owerri ask for more universities to be located in Owerri on top of the six government tertiary education institutions in Imo state they got located in Owerri, no consideration for Orlu and Okigwe areas.

Donbabafx1:
I knew it would hid fp...

Nigerian politicians are the most selfish set of people on this planet

Most selfish people in Imo state are from this group of blackmailers who want all roads in Owerri area be paved, possibly with gold, before govt can pave roads outside Owerri area.

This is a rural road under reconstruction

Owerri people have continued to blackmail every governor of Imo state to work like Mayor of Owerri senatorial district.
The second largest urban center-Orlu- in Imo state can hardly boast of two urban roads stable, no drainage system, even the drainage system started by former governor Amadi Ikwechegh in Orlu but not continued by former governor Evan Enwerem is uncompleted.

Ofodirinwa:
I wish nigerians aren't at tacky. What is this nonsense about flyovers? LOL They're completely ugly and the rest of the world is moving away from that ugly counterproductive nonsense.

Once our cities are 80% flyover we'll now see the mistake we're making. This is probably how ppl were hailing open gutters in 1940.

Awuuu. Too many Owerri people see flyover as sign of big city.
And as they dart about on every social media outlet pushing every governor to build flyovers and skyscrapers in Owerri, they can’t give thought to the fact that many localities in Imo state don’t have common drainage systems and are threatened by floods.
No trained urban planner goes for flyover unless it’s not possible to build a roundabout on the spot. Flyovers are ugly, obstructing, costly to build and maintain.

EastisBae:
I don't know why projects being executed in Imo State look like things being done by a local government chairman. This is so irritating to say the least, just take a look at the massive projects being executed by Kano and Kaduna state governments or Ebonyi that is close to us here and compare them with all these depressing pictures you're posting.

Ike gwuru

But the urban roads the governor is building outside Owerri are like those in Kano and Kaduna. Go to the other urban areas of Imo state to see them.
Helping your governors with placing “Imo state” in a sentence space where “Owerri” is supposed to be placed is like you guys shooting yourselves on the feet.
Before long, your state governors shall make that Owerri congested and most uncomfortable to live in.

Jman24:
Very big blow to all former governors asides mbakwe. And the prospects are even more Scarry. I hate to admit it since I also have my biases on the orlu invasion. But I must say he is on the right track. If he delivers the Okigwe city center, I'll take a bow in front of imo state House of Assembly.

Your bias on his invasion of Orlu with the military.

But you will bow when he delivers Okigwe city center, as he is now delivering Owerri city center.

One thing is that by next election, people in Owerri and Okigwe zones shall say that Orlu zone can’t govern Imo state because of equity. But you have seen how bile in the last two governors from Orlu zone made them arrest modern development in Orlu area.

franxalive:
Please when you have nothing meaningful to say about something you know nothing about... Why not you keep mute as to still keep your sanity... Than showing ignorance, embarrassing self?

You are telling me what's "NOT" about a state I've known since 1992 ...

Who are you? How old are you?, Which part of the world are you from?, Where do you really reason from?...i mean... common...

This is psycophancy taken too far...

Why are we or own enemies....not minding the heights of oppressions from our oppressors leaders...by our poor sense of reason, judgement, discretion, worth et al. As youths we are far from emancipation from mental slavery by our leaders...and is highly indicative that this corntree still has a very long way to go if it still remains as one anyway in the coming years.

Imagine our youths celebrating mediocrity...as achievements

God help us all

Wow. They are mostly people from Owerri celebrating Uzodinma who is reconstructing chains of Owerri urban roads and extending to rural villages in Owerri.

They are celebrating because they have a governor who does not want to accept that there are other urban areas in Imo state outside Owerri urban area.

Baawaa:
What are they celebrating,APC is nothing but disappointment

APC arrested development in Hope Uzodinma’s senatorial district where Uzodinma represented for 8 years in the senate with nothing tangible to show for his representation.

Uzodinma became governor and completely shuts off the senatorial district from his government development programs, except 3 to 4 roads being rebuilt in the district. .

LMAO.

Igbo group? An Igbo trader in Lagos begging a Yoruba man to introduce him to Tinubu has become Igbo group.

SmartPolician:
The Supreme Court governor seems to be paying attention to urban roads.

I hope the rural roads are getting the same attention and that the era of China roads are over.

Owerri, Okigwe and Orlu were the urban centers for which the present Imo state was created for urban development, and possibly create new urban areas for the people of Imo state.

But Crooks in high and low positions in Imo state have made Owerri to be seen as the only urban area. Orlu and Okigwe in their estimates must be kept as rural areas. Imo state losses funds that should have gone to provide urban infrastructures to Orlu and Okigwe to these crooks in high places, supported by their praise singers for Owerri to remain the only urban center in Imo state.
Therefore, Imo state remains the only state in the east with only the state capital as a place with modern urban development institutions and amenities. Sorry for my dear state.

sanctity454:
Before and after pictures of ihiagwa-nekede road
It seems some sections of the road is dualized

Ha ha ha.

See Owerri man flying Nigeria flag before and after FUTO road undergoes reconstruction.

Tell Owerri man that Nigeria is dysfunctional on the present political structure and governance system, and needs political restructuring, he will ask you why? Because he is benefiting from the present political structure and governance system. He gets rich after selling a plot of land.
All government institutions that induce development in a state were located in his Owerri senatorial district.

Abagworo:
To nonindigenes Owerri stops at Nwaorieubi while to Imolites Owerri stops at Akwakuma. Many Northerners, Akwaibomites, Middlebelt, Ebonyi, Rivers, Bayelsa and Yoruba people telling you they live in Owerri actually live outside Owerri. Owerri environs urbanized greatly during Okorocha's time all the way to Ulakwo, Ogbaku, Mgbirishi and Nwaorieubi axis. However I believe it is time to control the city expansion and encourage highrises. Owerri is developing in hydraheaded pattern like Portharcourt with mostly duplexes and short buildings unlike every other Southeast city that expands smaller on landmass by building multistorey housing

In bold; from the horse’s mouth: Okorocha government was responsible for rapid expansion of Owerri now growing in a hydra headed form.


How do we describe a governor Okorocha who deliberately arrested modern devt and urban expansion in his senatorial constituency, except in his rural village of Ogboko?


Orlu urban did not expand beyond where Udenwa stopped in 2007 till today, as Okorocha put nearly all the 8 years income of Imo state and its 27 LGAs into urban development of Owerri and building his private businesses in Ogboko and Owerri.


Today, the dream of every citizen of Orlu senatorial district is how to settle in Owerri.

Ogboko today is like a ghost town.

festacman:
What I don't understand is why a public servant would OPENLY (I.e not using a front) build a hotel complex and a university with Imo State money and wants to convert them to his own personal real assets.

If there are clear pieces of evidence tha Rochas Okorocha used public money to build these two heavily-funded complexes and perhaps more, why is he still fighting shamelessly?

Is Hope Uzodimma just witchhunting Rochas as part of political rivalry? Did any court of competent jurisdiction order the seizure of this properties?

Please anybody who knows the true situation should help me.

Did Edo state government go to court to seek permission before it could take over the university built by former governor Adams Oshiomwole in his hometown?

Why must foxy devil’s advocate like you ask IMSG to seek court permission before it could retrieve what was illegally taken away by a former Imo state governor?

festacman:
What I don't understand is why a public servant would OPENLY (I.e not using a front) build a hotel complex and a university with Imo State money and wants to convert them to his own personal real assets.

If there are clear pieces of evidence tha Rochas Okorocha used public money to build these two heavily-funded complexes and perhaps more, why is he still fighting shamelessly?

[s]Is Hope Uzodimma just witchhunting Rochas as part of political rivalry? Did any court of competent jurisdiction order the seizure of this properties?

Please anybody who knows the true situation should help me[/s].

Your second portion canceled above has no supporting precedence.


Okorocha offended the law by using government offices to build what he would think shall become his, or partly for his Rochas Foundation, when he leaves office.

That’s not permitted by law.

So IMSG needed no court permission to seize the properties.

It’s like Rochas Okorocha does not understand that he no longer has immunity from arrest and prosecution. Who are the advisers of Rochas? They want to advise him to jail.

How could Rochas condescend to go to forcefully open a gate locked by the state government?