₦airaland Forum

Imo1stson:
Water supply is not our problem in Southern Nigeria. No State has public water supply including Lagos the most developed city. We all have very small section of each State particularly the capital enjoying public water supply.

What Imo needs is continuity and focused leadership. Rochas focused on tourism and it brought a lot of development to the State with the capital Owerri and environs bubbling with luxury shoppers, fun seekers and real estate investors. Other towns including Orlu, Okigwe and Oguta also had sizeable growth in hospitality industry and real estate but right now everything has been slowed down. The present Governor refused to build on what he inherited from Rochas but rather focused on how to destroy Rochas legacies and start a new one thereby drawing the State backwards. If by the grace of God he is removed by the court or State of emergency as is being witnessed presently his successor must go back to where Rochas stopped and continue with the clear direction and geometric growth Imo was undergoing. All the parks must be revived and roads he destroyed must be repaired. The waterfalls he destroyed must be restored and the heavy tax he introduced against businesses must be reduced. There should be no room for childish witch haunting.

You dislike gov Ihedioha by wishing for state of emergency to remove him as governor.
Bad wishes from a possible anarchist.

No force except the Court, can remove gov Ihedioha from office.


Ihedioha has a deep seated flaw: he plans for development of only his Owerri senatorial zone.

If not, every genuine State governor would have quickly converted the universities in Ogboko and Okigwe as part of Imo state university.

Ihedioha ought to have started work on finishing the water supply projects for Okigwe and Orlu zones, the same time he started to refurbish Owerri water works; instead, he went to build new 1000 houses in Owerri. That's crass demonstration of primitive clan mindset.
Now he has infuriated loads of people.

Imo1stson:
Water supply is not our problem in Southern Nigeria. No State has public water supply including Lagos the most developed city. We all have very small section of each State particularly the capital enjoying public water supply.

What Imo needs is continuity and focused leadership. Rochas focused on tourism and it brought a lot of development to the State with the capital Owerri and environs bubbling with luxury shoppers, fun seekers and real estate investors. Other towns including Orlu, Okigwe and Oguta also had sizeable growth in hospitality industry and real estate but right now everything has been slowed down. The present Governor refused to build on what he inherited from Rochas but rather focused on how to destroy Rochas legacies and start a new one thereby drawing the State backwards. If by the grace of God he is removed by the court or State of emergency as is being witnessed presently his successor must go back to where Rochas stopped and continue with the clear direction and geometric growth Imo was undergoing. All the parks must be revived and roads he destroyed must be repaired. The waterfalls he destroyed must be restored and the heavy tax he introduced against businesses must be reduced. There should be no room for childish witch haunting.

Your first two sentences I bolded above show that you are - -- a bush man.

Have you seen anywhere in other developed or even fast developing countries without public pipe borne water from surface water supply system?

It's corrupt leadership in Nigeria which denies people the most important commodity - treated pipe borne water - which every reasonable leader provides citizens first, and foremost.

Why is average life expectancy going below 50 in Nigeria where people consume untreated water from boreholes? But life expectancy is going above 70 in countries where people consume treated water from public surface water supply system.

Do you want to remain in the 19th century forever, because you can't tell corrupt leaders to rise up to their responsibilities?
The first commodity Oyibo provided in my Orlu area is treated pipe borne water, same as in Lagos and many towns in then southern Nigeria. We now have to beg bad leaders for what existed fifty years ago.

sassysure:
It is finished already.
Buhari has fulfilled the wish of usman dan fodio.

And my brothers are busy looking for crumbs from the spoil that the same people take from their land forcefully.

Shame on our men!

They only have errection if its woman matter and to hate themselves.

Just look at the impunity.

If u guys don't know how to navigate the ship, leave let the ladies do that!

Like nairaland southern men like their politicians.
Sometimes I shudder when I read posts from them.

Blame Yoruba Moslems for continuation of dysfunctional one Nigeria.

Dedetwo:
The bolded is mere exaggeration. I would say that Owerri would not have see rapid development if it was not the capital of Imo State period. In today's Nigeria, many cities are striving on individual borehole system.

Okay, if you don't accept that availability of public water supply system in Owerri since the mid 1980s made Owerri develop, let's scatter Owerri water works beginning from Otamiri river.
Thereafter, let's see how Owerri will EVER be a modern city with private water boreholes.

If Okigwe and Orlu water projects are not actualized, Owerri zonal water supply system must be deactivated, so that all Imo shall go private water borehole.

Remember that Owerri zonal water supply system was deactivated from 2010 till now. Borehole for every body

Evan Enwerem from Owerri refused to actualize Okigwe and Orlu zonal water supply systems. Instead, he went after locating IMSU in Owerri which has all universities and polytechnic in Imo state.

But Tinubu can not win even if ticket is on a plater of gold to him.
Tinubu betrayed the struggle of southern and middle belt Nigeria for political restructuring of Nigeria.
All for his private pocket.

The space in Nigeria was naturally carved by rivers Niger and Benue into different countries.
Greed made Oyibo lump the different regions into one IMPOSSIBLE COUNTRY.

Far north Sharia States want an Islamic country but greed over crude oil in the Niger delta would not allow the northern Sharia states have an independent Islamic country.

Easy to achieve the desire for an Islamic state in West Africa:
Get an Islamic country for the 12 Sharia States in northern Nigeria


Must Christians in the east continue to share one country with Islamic north and SW of Nigeria?

Hotfreez:
It is Igbo airport. That's why your SE Governors went to kneel down to Buhari and thank him.

They would have taken your daddy that day but he went out to hunt rats.

You brought my daddy in. Why?

If you are not born-throway, you wouldn't bring my daddy inside this.
You would have been better educated by a daddy.

youngsahito:
Ibos won't appreciate this from Buhari

It's Nigeria's airport, not Igbo airport, just like 2nd Niger bridge. Stop playing mugu. Nigerians from all tribes use the airport and bridge.

Coldie:
Why would a state govt build such a hotel there.

Which patrons will live Owerri to go and lodge at a 5star hotel at orlu. There has to be something to attract people not just building a hotel INA rural area. It might end up a waste.

That hotel would serve better if built close to oguta lake or abadaba lake

Ignorance with arrogance is a big disease.


You don't know that:
any area provided with roads, durable public water supply system and electricity, attracts the rich to settle or lodge in hotel facilities.

in developed countries, portable water supply, roads and electricity are provided in all habitable areas. For that, wealthy people don't like to live in urban areas; guests don't lodge in hotels in urban centres.
People like you from Owerri area take pride in calling Okigwe and Orlu areas villages, not worthy of any govt investment. It's all because no public water supply system exists to spur modern development in Orlu and Okigwe zones.

About forty five years ago, Owerri was a little village town with thatched roofs and mud houses along Douglas road.
Mbakwe govt's huge water supply projects for Owerri, Okigwe and Orlu were aimed to provide uniform development in the entire Imo state.

Evan Enwerem from Owerri was to have completed little works left in Okigwe water project, and start work on Orlu water project. But he didn't.

If Ihedioha doesn't actualize the two surface water supply systems of IMSG for Orlu and Okigwe before 2023, no hide and seek from him shall keep him going.

No big industries in Owerri to employ large labour that enables people to be able to pay huge rents and buy govt/public houses in Owerri.

Fact is: Nearly all Development institutions in Imo state are SEIZED by Owerri. Eg, 6 tertiary education institutions that should have been distributed all over the three zones are trapped in Owerri.

As support is Owerri regional surface water supply since 1982 built by Mbakwe.
All State and federal ministries are in Owerri. For short, nearly about 90% of federal allocations to Imo state end up in Owerri.
Ask any Owerri person that at least one tertiary education institution in Owerri to be taken to Orlu or to Okigwe, he will see you as enemy.

Govt committee has since asked gov Ihedioha to activate Eastern Palm university to a campus of Imo state university and the campus in Umuna Okigwe also. Ihedioha may rather want to give Eastern Palm university to Rochas

Coldie:
In okigwe the price of a plot in the town itself is not up to 2.5m.

Why naturally law of demand and supply, if nobody is buying the land price will fall. Then govt says they want to build an estate and they acquire a huge hectare from the forest. And start selling out the plots for 2.5m.

If u have 2.5m to buy land will u go to the bush to buy it or use lesser to buy it in the town itself

No where in Imo state is really bush if provided with durable public water supply system.

The Scotalen fool didn't know that.

XANDERBOY85:
Probably they’re selling the plots!

Even a dumbo in Imo state knows that no investors can truly buy the plots for housing estate in a town without standard public water supply system. It's all deceptive tactics by governor.


Former gov Udenwa built more than 100 housing units at Okporo Orlu, sank water boreholes. No body bought the houses. They are not gainfully occupied till today, because boreholes are not trusted source of public water supply.

sanctity454:
It seems imsg is developing an estate at okigwe

Only to deceive people, so as to have breathing atmosphere in Imo state to continue in peace with building the 1000 new houses in Emekuku Owerri.

Who is gonna put money in estate development in Okigwe where there is no portable water supply system?


Ihedioha knows the right thing to do: first restore pipe borne to Okigwe. Once water supply is restored in Okigwe and Orlu, govt does not even need to engage on building estates, because housing estate investors shall rush to build new housing estates in Orlu and Okigwe areas.

But for a governor Ihedioha whose only development blue print is make the entire Owerri zone become the only modern, livable and lovable area in Imo state,

Dedetwo:
You seem to brush aside the individual aspect of down development. Orlu urban must have what it takes to attract non-indigenes of Orlu.

Owerri would NEVER HAVE DEVELOPED, if it didn't have the surface water supply system built by Mbakwe since 1982 till 2010. Ihedioha is now putting finishing touches to reviving that Owerri public water supply system.

No place ever develops to a modern place without a sustainable public water supply system, not water boreholes.
Enwerem from Owerri refused to continue with building Orlu regional surface water supply system.

Owerri people are conspiratorial to what has denied modernity and urbanization to Orlu and Okigwe zones.

Udenwa took over and completed Okigwe regional surface water supply system, handed it over to Ohakim.
Owerri people co-opted Ohakim onto forming New Face of Imo which kicked away Udenwa from Ohakim.

Result: Okigwe regional surface water supply project into which IMSG has put more than N12 billion lies in ruins today, after Ohakim brought President Yar'Adua in 2008 who commissioned Okigwe water supply system. Ohakim couldn't do the few things necessary to pump water to people in Okigwe zone, as he was Co-opted to do clean and green in Owerri.

People from Orlu and Okigwe zones continue to migrate to settle and build in Owerri. You show us photos of modern Owerri.

Now, enough is enough. Gov Ihedioha has to do the needful or ....

Most profitable routes are where every country with saner leaders first provide standard gauge rail lines.

Profits from the profitable routes are then ploughed into building similar rail lines in other places.

Northern Nigeria led by Fulani misappropriated funds into least profitable areas for modern devt projects.
The projects crumble like NITEL.

Northern dictators first built digital telephone exchanges in urban and rural areas of the north. Most business towns in the south were still using analog telephone exchanges.

NITEL CRUMBLED.

Continue with denials.


Nigeria denied train lines to the most travelled route - Lagos-Benin-Onitsha-Port Harcourt/Calabar. But builds standard rail gauge lines in Kaduna-Abuja.
Karma set out in anger with attacks on the Abuja-Kaduna standard rail gauge lines. With extra money to provide air safety on Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge rail lines, when shall Nigeria make profit to repair the loans to China? Useless government

daddytime:
Just imagine.

Dem go soon begin rob people with guns for airplane.

Impossible is nothing..

Wa Wa Wa
They thought building all the best infrastructure first in Arewa land, but not in Niger delta region, is all that is required to upgrade the masses out there in Arewa land. E no de easy. Karma exists - for real

Where were the armed aircrafts we use to safeguard the trains on Abuja-Kaduna train route?

Karma deals on a country that gets oil revenues from the old East region, but builds standard rail gauge lines first in the northern region which contributes nothing to Nigeria's purse


Oyibo helped in winning Nigeria/Biafra war for Fulani.
Fulani mismanaged victory, grossly abuse the victory.

Beremx:
How are you Dede m. Compliments of the season and happy New Year.

Honestly, I dunno if he completed hospitals,schools and stadia in Owerri or other local governments. I am particular about Orlu, but it seems it's the same everywhere.

Today I heard on the radio where Ihedioha is planning to build new hospitals. Is that another wasted projects?

Is Ihedioha not full of tricks?
He went abroad, he saw that first thing govts give to citizens is treated pipe borne water. He contracted Americans who now help him to restore Owerri water project built by Mbakwe.
But Ihedioha has never mentioned the similar water projects planned for Orlu and Okigwe zones.
He talks of building hospitals, he knows that diseases are rampant where there are no treated pipe borne water.
Hundreds of houses in Imo State housing estates in Orlu and Ideato are not gainfully occupied because of absence of public water supply system..
Instead of first restore pipe borne water in Okigwe and Orlu zones, Ihedioha starts to build new one thousand houses in Owerri. He says it's public/private participation. But Ihedioha knows that no private investor can put even one Naira into building housing estate in Orlu and Okigwe zones, because of absence of public water supply. He says thousands of houses are coming. Of course, to Owerri, unless he restores public water supply to Orlu and Okigwe zones.

When tricky person dies, he buries himself, one of his hand remains in the surface.

Dedetwo:
I have never heard that any human being who visited Imo state was taken to your father's compound in Orlu for photo ops.

Obasanjo was taken to Orlu for big photops during Udenwa govt.
Yar Adua was taken to Okigwe area for photops during Ohakim govt.
Okorocha from Ideato south had deep-seated anger against Orlu, before 2011 election. He made Owerri his all and all - even began to mould statues in Owerri, instead of extending any meaningful development beyond Owerri.
After Okorocha tricked Orlu which voted him highest to become governor in 2011, he nearly closed Orlu down for 8 years in vengeance. He converted three roads in Orlu into double lane, put street lights on them, no one can point at any other project Okorocha did in Orlu.
But why do you insultingly mention someone's father in comment?


It's like you are very happy that Owerri is now everything in Imo state,?
Rochas Okorocha's most grudgy mindset which made him refuse to do certain development projects he was expected to do in Orlu - that's responsible for Owerri now becoming everything in Imo state, not because of industry of Owerri.

Simplyleo:
Sultan owns 23 oil wells?

The funny thing is that his ipob pigs believe him.

After all, as far those ipob illiterates are concerned, the president is one jubrin from Sudan.

Another PARASITE SPEAKS.

Note that most of the successful countries of the world have no crude oil

The World Bank has just said that Nigeria is worse than African countries without crude oil.

Let IPOB and Biafra go from Nigeria.
Thereafter, let the Buhari or Jubril rule you, possibly for the next 50 years, in what shall be left of Nigeria without BIafra.

Nigerdelta is a captured region.
Freedom is imminent.

Nigeria is the most dysfunctional country in the world.

After PMB, worse than PMB shall take over.

One Nigeria is a curse by Oyibo.
Oyibo can never allow France and Britain to become one country, can never allow Germany and Belgium to become one country.

Kingosytex:



Naija na real comedy zone I swear. Just reading through the events that happen in this country can give a burdened soul a tremendous boost.


But wait first, what has Amaechi got to do with IPOB? I thought IPOB only attack polithievescians from the east.


Has any body noticed that the number of coalitions in the Niger Delta is almost equal to the population of that region?

Loooool.
That's the region you have the least politically-educated persons in Africa - persons with no political convictions.


The number of coalitions is as large as the number of oil wells collected by northern Nigerians in the Nigerdelta region. The Rotimi Amaechis continue to divide the people into coalitions of all sorts.

OgaBuhari:
if Amaechi needs to be beaten it's we the south South youths that need to treat that and not IPOB because Amaechi is Niger Deltan and not Igbo.
it's like u IPOB want war with us Niger Deltans.
face your south east matters and your corrupt governors like the likes of ikpeazukerosene and leave south South matters alone before you die Young

Aboki how far?

Unless Rotimi Amaechi goes and borrows Boko Haram fighters from his masters, he is worth a kobo in the southsouth region.

Rotimi believes that President Buhari's tenure shall not end. Before it ends, Amaechi in anger may seek to put fire into his native area.

Rotimi, you can lean on PMB as long as it lasts, but prison term awaits you from your misdeeds.

Rotimi Amaechi has been building his ministry's standard gauge train lines in the north and southwest regions, but excluded the east and southsouth. People of the east and southsouth ignore him and his folly.

Amaechi is now being used to make Abokis finally take over his mother's and wive's hearth at Ubima, after Abokis took over the oil blocks in the Nigerdelta since 1967 when they started to separate the east from the southsouth.

Aonkuuse:
https://www.newtelegraphng.com/2019/12/attack-on-amaechi-ndelta-youths-give-ipob-7-days-to-apologise/

Igbos did not confront Rotimi.
This threat to Igbos must be coming from an ill-educated person, perhaps from Rotimi Amaechi himself through his paid urchins.

Yampotatocarrot:
The eastern palm university, what becomes of it, will it be left to be over grown with weeds? What about the general hospitals? There is an extension of Imo poly just beside Ahiara Technical College, at Mbaise, it's currently being overgrown with weed (I was there).

I believe the government can leverage on all these and do something about it.

I hope Ihedioha listens

*#ImoWillBeBetter#*

Eastern Palm University and the Okigwe and Mbaise campuses built by Okorocha government are getting over-grown with bushes since committee said the three be used as campus of IMSU. Hard to understand why the governor has not acted. IMSU has been on temporary and near-useless buildings in Owerri. Any other state governor would have since done what the committee directed.

Solsix:
I thought automated means machine only, no human being, please someone should correct me if am wrong

Even in automated environment, there must be men to be watchful over possible machine gridlock.