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dainformant:
na d whole Nigeria come this event oo...Tinubu is really a great man

If you don't know, now you know...

kinharold:
I dont know you personally so I cant call you names. But if you know the location of the Monorail and the cost so far, you will be sincere enough to know that no sensible Government or Company can invest in it, moreso in the present economic times. About 400m USD spent already on a less than 2km monorail that is still far from completion. if it is a commercial investment, how long do you think it will take to recoup the capital and make profit. What is the transport situation/options from Station Bus stop to UTC junction. That area is one of the neatest and most organised part of Port Harcourt. There is a smooth and convenient N50 Taxi or Bus ride for that distance.

Question: If you are at Station Bustop going to Pack or Education, is Monorail ur best option? definitely NO. Why?, Monorail will take more time (loading etc), Monorail will stop U at UTC Junction, where U will need another Taxi or Bus to get to Pack or Education.

If that amount of money was used on Port Harcourt roads, by now we will have more flyovers, wider roads and better roads, and we will all raise Amaechi. Amaechi was the best governor talking about infrastructure especially roads but THAT MONORAIL WAS A BIG MISTAKE, and he knows it.

Last line:
Can Amaechi recommend such a project to PMB?
If you are to give an investment advice, can you do profitability Analysis of the project and recommend it to your company or any foreign or local investor?. Think Economy, not Politics.

1. Investing money on roads and road repairs is not the issue here, the issue is another mode of transportation that saves time, saves money, improve productivity, environmentally friendly and general modernization of the transportation system which every Nigeria should be in favor and fully supportive of.

2. Such projects are not built and finished singularly, they are done in phases so saying it doesn't each this and that places sounds a little bit shortsighted. You start from somewhere and it's up to the man or woman after you to take it to the next level till it reaches every corner of the state.

3. Fashola started Lagos Metro Rail and didn't even finish the first phase, but are Lagosians crying and moaning because it won't take them to Badagry or Ikorodu or is Ambode saying he won't touch it because it can not take people to every corner of the state or because when people take it, they still have to take taxi from here to there?


4. It's a very absurd argument. You start from point A, then go to point B till you reach point Z even if it consumes 30 years to reach point Z. Rome wasn't built in a day, they started from somewhere.


5. At the end of the day, you end up with less bad roads, little or no money wasted on road repairs because you now have your population patronizing the metrorail, less cars messing up your roads, less pollution from toxic fumes, less road and deadly accidents, less hospitalization because of accidents simply because metrorails are almost 100% accident free and needs very little maintenance.


The governor is obviously a man of very low intellect just like many across the country and this issue exemplifies his low intellect, irresponsible, crude and crass behavior. Also shows that he's void of vision and incapable of formulating anything better than the same petty political fixations and enemy syndrome at the expense of the people of the state.

Jakande who started the first Lagos Metro rail 30 years ago was a visionary leader, Fashola who rekindled and restored the project remains a visionary leader because it's the right thing to do, he didn't run away from it because the state lost money on the project 30 years ago, it is the future and leaders just be futuristic and always aspire for greatness.

Amaechi also remains a visionary leader for starting this project because it's the future of transportation, good quality of life and modernization.

Amaechi delivered more infrastructures than all the states in that region combined including Akpabio with the largest state budget in Nigeria.

Akpabio built a ordinary football field, but Amaechi built a whole sports complex with olympic style and FIFA ratted stadium, swimming pool, boxing court, tennis court, basket ball court and so on

Amaechi was the only governor who built a major olympic ratted and the only state sports complex in Nigeria.

Amaechi built more and the most modern schools in Nigeria and than the rest of the country

Amaechi built more health centers than any government in the history of Nigeria

Amaechi built roads, bridges and flyovers

Only Fashola in Lagos state can match his record pound for pound..


I do understand the hatred, political pettiness, shallow thinking and myopic sentiments clouding people's mentality including the governor, but Amaechi's record remains unmatched and Wike just revealed than he's no match for Amaechi and can never be visionary or take that state to the next grand level. This is what the man is basically telling us.



What a sad shame...

tuniski:
U will wish to personally lock up buhari having seen him pass consecutively the biggest budgets with nothing to show by 2019. Budget is just a paper without Spine!

And you know he failed becaus it's already 2019?


Unintelligent loser...

kinharold:
Guy, if you are in Port Harcourt or know Port Harcourt, you will NEVER advice any government

I hope and pray people like you don't get to be governors or in any position to make irresponsible and reckless decisions..

Company or individual to be part of that project. IT HAS COMPLETELY NO economic value to port Harcourt and Rivers state. Please, visit the location, check and ask questions

Any mode of transportation that can move people from point A to point B has more than economic value.

People leaving okada, taxi and other road based transportation in favor of the metro rail means less stress on the road, less damage and money spent repairing and maintaining the roads has significant economic value, you are just too shortsighted just like the clueless governor.

Where is the sense and wisdom in spending money repairing and maintaining roads instead of building metro rail to move more people easily, faster with less stress and maintenance. Riding the metro saves you time, energy and money so it has significant economic value

The metro rail is environmentally friendly because it doesn't generate dangerous fumes and dust like cars, okada and so on, meaning less people getting sick or going to the hospital wasting time and money.

Metro reduces road accidents, needless deaths and money wasted on hospitalization.

That's a combination of health and financial benefits

It was just a drain pipe.

No, it's a visionary and laudable project that Wike should be very proud of and take to the next level..

If you think otherwise, then thank God Amaechi is the Minister of Transportation; let recommend it to the FG for a takeover or look for private investors. No, politics aside, that project no follow... we all know it.

We are talking about this because you, your kind and the petty governor can not put politics aside and the what's best for his people.

It's a state project so what's the FG got to do with it.? Fashola left the metro rail for Ambode to continue and it's up to ambode to take it to the next level even though amobde himself can not finish the other lines and whoever after him must continue till the metro rings around the whole of Lagos state from badagry to epe, ikorodu, lekki and beyond. And when it's all said and done, we won't be spending money fixing roads, polluting the atmosphere and so on....


You obviously don't know the meaning of economic value...

You go to foreign countries and marvel at such things, but when it comes to your own country, you hold yourselves back, you deny yourself development and modernity all because of hatred, pettiness, tribalism, politics and ignorance...

What I see here mostly is ignorance, shallow thinking and gross shortsightedness...

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yaki84:
will it make aregbe pay osun workers as at when due?

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I just wonder why you unintelligent and can't formulate good argument ignorant people pull Osun out of your anus every second as if your life and last breath depends on your ability to spew osun out of your clueless mouth.


You should have asked your ignorant self if your poor villages in SE and Akwa Ibom's huge allocations and oil money prevents owing salary just like Osun state, the same Osun that delivered more projects than akpabio and all your SE villages combined...

Akwa Ibom, Rivers, others owe workers despite receiving highest Excess Crude money


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/183684-akwa-ibom-rivers-others-owe-workers-despite-receiving-highest-excess-crude-money.html

You ignorant illiterate and trolls really need to shut up sometimes...

cashreport:
I have always try to ignore you
Well today I went through your profile and your location @ omenka ?
You don't stay in Rivers state and you are not even from here .
Brother focus on your state and hope they are paying salary or rather thinking of building monorail
So many bad road and undeveloped areas need roads and drainage which cost billions
Why wast money on air when the ground is not good
Lastly before I go to back to my office
Omenka what's your state of origin be proud for once and tell us
Hope your governor has many monorails??

You and the ignorant, petty, irresponsible and reckless governor must have missed the fact that other modes of transportation like this metrorail relives pressure on roads, reduces road traffic and stress, reduce and prevents road damage and constant need for road maintenance, it's environmentally friendly, it's faster and get you to your destination which increases human productive hours and saves money and so on and so on.

Regardless how you feel about the project and the initiator, it remains a visionary project. The silly, short sighted and petty should set aside his silly and misguided ego and finish the project, improve on it and take it to the next level, this is what sensible and responsible leaders do.

Letting the people's money go down the drain because of his ignorance, ego, crude and low grade thinking (Like many people on NL) is not only foolish, it's idiotic, abdication of responsibility and criminal..

This is the most reckless and irresponsible statement ever by any public official. Who do you think you are hurting by not touching or finishing the project? Amaechi or your own people?


This is what you get when you vote in low mentality, crude, crass and irresponsible people to represent you.


What a damn shame...

yaki84:
will dat mek state of odourfool osun's allocation increase?

I just wonder why you unintelligent and can't formulate good argument ignorant people pull Osun out of your anus every second as if your life and last breath depends on your ability to spew osun out of your clueless mouth.


You should have asked your ignorant self if your poor villages in SE and Akwa Ibom's huge allocations and oil money prevents owing salary just like Osun state, the same Osun that delivered more projects than akpabio and all your SE villages combined...

Akwa Ibom, Rivers, others owe workers despite receiving highest Excess Crude money


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/183684-akwa-ibom-rivers-others-owe-workers-despite-receiving-highest-excess-crude-money.html

You ignorant illiterate and trolls really need to shut up sometimes...

Atlantian:
Shut up, I am not sure you can locate Akwa Ibom on a map.

Is the topic about locating anywhere on a map or as usual you are too ignorant and unintelligent to formulate sensible and coherent argument.


These dumb internet trolls and nuisance sef....

jamjo:
One thing you don't understand is this, you are like the rest of Nigerians who love to convict people in pages of newspapers without facts. I want to see facts. I know our politicians are all thieves there is no doubt about that, but the point i was trying to make was this, investigate this lady first get the facts before convicting her . If she in anyway found guilty let her go and pay for her sins. You are here talking about N23 billion , please let me remind you one thing, the renovation of Enugu airport started before Oduah came in as minister, she completed the work on the old terminal building and during her time was when the contract for the new terminal was awarded and yes they are building a new terminal from scratch and work are still on going, you get that and this is where the 13 billion came in and the 13 billion was for the new terminal but work is still on going. Now if you have the facts that the 13 Billion has been spent on the new terminal please put it out there let every Nigerian see it.

And your essay altered the fact that they've spent N23 billion on that airport since 2009/9 years and still nothing to show for it when on fact they could have built 2 new better and jumbo jet capable airports with change leftover with the same N23 billion.

You can argue with yourself all day about who this and that or when this and that was doen, fact remains that N13 billion on ordinary terminal is more than enough to built a new and better airport. New and better Dutse international with 3.6 klm runway and capacity to fly and land jumbo 747-400 cost only N11.5 billion and the N23 billion wasted on on this old and still obsolete airport remains more than enough to build 2 Dutse international...




https://i.imgur.com/iymJAoI.jpg



^^^^^^ That's a 747-400, the largest 747 jumbo jet at Dutse airport. Enugu airport can not land this plane with the wasted N23 billion.


Talk about penny wise pound foolish ARGUMENT...

This man passed the largest state budgets in Nigeria, even more than Lagos state, but after 8 years in office, all he delivered are a few roads, flyover, 1 library, one football field, 1 cinema and 1 cinema.

After the roads and flyover, this man did not deliver more than 4 projects after 8 years and the largest state budget in Nigeria..

You can not help but ask what happened to the all that money..


This is one man I'd love to see locked up for good.

Manufactured tales on iPoD blog posted on NL as usual for dissemination and missinfomation.

Sadly, NL is always a willing tool to misinform Nigerians.

jamjo:
Please can i ask you a question, that is if you don't mind? Have you been to Enugu airport or have you done any kind of research about this airport, Remember the terminal building we are talking about is still under construction just at the roofing stage, what are this noise all about . why is it that this project has not been completed did you think about that? its because the 13 BILLION was not payed in full, this project lack funding the 13 billion we are talking about are yet to be spend in full. The questions we need to ask are how much has been released if so so amount was released was that amount justify what was on the ground. I'm not here to defend anybody but its good to know the facts before making allegations and things sometimes are not what it looks. Let investigate this lady about this projects and if she is found guilty let her pay for her sins that is how things are done. Nigerians should stop convicting someone on the pages of newspapers. And as for the flooding of the airport, that is not only peculiar to just Enugu , I live here in America and i have seen some airport that was built with over $300 million that has flooding problems even around the world this are not new. That is not to say its okay for Enugu airport to be flooded No, but sometimes the amount it will take to solve the problem will take chunk from the budgeted amount. To compare Enugu and Dutse in terms of flooding that is wrong in the sense that the topography are different. Our problem in Nigeria is we expect quality with little and it will never happen, shining buildings are not quality until we start funding properly not when we put $1 we expect $5.

1. The question you should be asking yourself is why N13 billion just to refurbish ordinary terminal. We are talking about refurbish and not construction from scratch when in fact N13 billion is more than enough to build a better and modern airport from scratch with even better terminal and longer concrete runway...

2. The total amount wasted on that airport so far starting from 2009 is N23 billion and the airport is still crap that foreign airlines are running away from...

3. You really need to stop the blind and irrelevant comparisons with American airports since this is not about just flooding, it's more about spending N10 to fix that situation and the job was never done, the airport still flood and the runway still doesn't
t have ILS/Instrument landing system.

Or huge amount of money was spent on the American airport you are talking about to fix the runway or address flooding and the job wasn't done and it still floods? Both issues are unrelated..

The new and better Dutse international airport cost only N11.05 billion to build with capacity to accommodate jumbo aircraft with its 3.6 kilometres runway.


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https://i.imgur.com/tvG78ZV.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/iymJAoI.jpg

jamjo:
I think you find it difficult to understand or comprehend English language.

What you should have said to yourself after looking in the mirror....

Quality is always better than quantity..

theshadyexpress:
you are indeed a sorry case of your own self

until you show me where 23bn was released you have no case

any intelligent person out here to bring up a better argument? this guy i've been quoting is too simplistic. i now see why Osun is where it is today

In December 2009, the airport was closed temporarily for work to commence and those wishing to take the route were diverted to Sam Mbakwe Airport Owerri. This work spanned the period when Mr. Babatunde Omotoba was minister till when Fidelia Njeze took over. Therefore, the process of upgrading the Enugu International Airport was kick started by late Yaradua and N4.13 billion naira was approved by the FEC and released for the work to commence.

The Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Jonathan on October 19, 2010 reaffirmed the upgrade of Enugu Airport to an international facility and awarded a reviewed contract of about N6.1billion

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/166305/enugu-international-airport-scam-another-419-on-the-igbo-na.html

= N10 Billion for runway..

On the new International terminal for which he performed the Foundation Laying ceremony, Goodluck Jonathan said the project, to be built at a cost of about N13 billion will provide for 500, 000 international passengers and provide Enugu and the South East region not only “a modern, efficient, functional, safe and secure gateway, but most importantly a prestigious edifice that will offer a befitting welcome and goodbye from the region and Nigeria”


http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/news/president-jonathan-commissions-remodeled-enugu-airport/

N13 Billion for terminal..


N10 + N13 billion = N23 billion.



Now, kindly get lost with your olodo can't read, comprehend or do simple arithmetic self...

obailala:
What is my business with eco atlantic and why do you keep referring to eko atlantic?.... Is your mind so tribally depraved that you cannot discuss anything without involving tribalism?... And most senseless is the fact that in your bid to turn an argument to tribal competition, you keep throwing your arrow to the wrong direction.


And while I may have no tribal links with your eco atlantic, I know a little thing or two about it by merely reading and feeding my knowledge online. Obviously you are ignorant of the fact that eko atlantic isn't a government project but rather a private investment.

He's silly noise about Eko Atlantic was a reflection of his own ignorance and tribal stupidity because EA is a private project and prvately funded.

theshadyexpress:
same ignorance

1) you still dont know how much she was given

2) those contracts are still work-in-progress so she definitely didnt get all the money to finish them

3) simply write to ministry of aviation using the FOI act and request for a breakdown of funds expended on the project

4) when you get that you can now use that information to check if the monies released for the projects are commensurate with workdone.

so simple but i know still wont get it, its typical of Sai barbarians

On the new International terminal for which he performed the Foundation Laying ceremony, Goodluck Jonathan said the project, to be built at a cost of about N13 billion will provide for 500, 000 international passengers and provide Enugu and the South East region not only “a modern, efficient, functional, safe and secure gateway, but most importantly a prestigious edifice that will offer a befitting welcome and goodbye from the region and Nigeria”

Earlier in her address of welcome, Aviation Minister, Princess Stella Adaeze Oduah said the occasion calls for celebration, not just for the people of the South East geo-political zone of the country, but indeed for all Nigerians, enthusing that the Transformation Agenda of Mr President “is being actualized tangibly at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu”.

Princess Oduah said the new international terminal with a total floor area of 25,000 square meters will have capacity to handle 500,000 passengers per annum and will be completed in 24 months. “On completion of the terminal, this airport will finally answer it’s name in the real sense of the word “Akanu Ibiam International Airport”.

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/news/president-jonathan-commissions-remodeled-enugu-airport/


You should worry about your own ignorance, shallow, can't read and comprehend and warped mentality first..

theshadyexpress:
you cant determine if a job was poorly done if you dont have a detailed breakdown of funds made available for the project, if you have the breakdown you can match it with the workdone to see if it is commensurate with it. The minister only works with funds made available to the ministry and from internal sources in the ministry, and it is common knowledge that all government ministries are poorly funded due to limited federal revenue amidst competing government priorities.
there is no where in the publication that it was said the full sum for the project was provided to the minister, so pls cut the bullshit

We know she was given N13 billion to refurbish common terminal when Dutse, a better and modern airport with better facilities and larger runway that can fly and land jumbo jets was started and completed with just N11.5 billion.

The N23 billion spent on this still obsolete airport is more than enough to build 2 better airports with modern facilities and longer runway..


I do understand your usual tribal and clannish need to defend anything by any means necessary, but not obvious absurdities and needless fleecing..

theshadyexpress:
1) There is no where in the publication that said 23 billion naira was released,pls get your facts right

2) did you see the contract design and provisions before arriving at the conclusion that 10bn niara was good enough to do the job?

3)all youve said are just mere emotional rants borne out of concentrated ignorance and penchant for bigotry.

N.B it is one thing for money to be budgeted for a project and another thing for the total sum to be released in due time for the completion of the project, before you rant ensure you have the detail of how much was released for the project and the level of completion of the project and you can ascertain if the amount of funds released is commensurate with workdone. the last time i checked enugu airport is still work in progress. so pls get your facts right before you start ranting all over the place like you have an idea what youre talking about

They don't have to tell you anything in the report to arrive at that conclusion...

What she's denying is the contract for N10 billion to re-do the runway which was never done or poorly done, but she is conveniently dodging the N13 billion she was given to refurbish enugu airport terminal...

N10 billion + N13 = N23 billion.

obailala:
So Stella did not award the contracts for the upgrade of the Enugu Airport yet we have been praising her all along?

Now we need to know the exact person who should take that glory for the upgrade (and also, the accompanying blame for the poor job).

Sadly for them, they pick and chose when and who to praise when it suits their tribal worries...

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theshadyexpress:
i pray you dont cos osun state that you gave all your time is now the worst state in the south west a failed state. pls oooh dont invest your time on me i take God beg you

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I don't waste my time on ignorant and unintelligent people like you..

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theshadyexpress:
youre still saying the same crap, pls show us where in nthe report it said stella awarded the contract, the report only asserted that she inaugrated the project which means execution. get a life boy, Osun state matters needs your attention. if you have devoted the energy you use in criticizing PDP to the developmental issues in OSUN state, their allocation will not be lesser than wizkid single performance earnings.

rubbish

God punish APC for turning peoples children to zombies

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I don't waste my time on ignorant and unintelligent people like you..

jonhemma11:
Senator representing Anambra North, Stella Oduah, has debunked reports by online newspaper, Sahara Reporters, linking her to a N86bn contract awarded for the upgrade of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu during her tenure as Minister of Aviation.

The report in part reads:

“The stench of contractual fraud left behind by Senator Stella Oduah during her tenure as Minister of Aviation remains unceasing. Oduah, whose time as a minister under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan was headlined by the dodgy contract of two bullet-proof BMW cars for her use, was elected senator in the last general elections.

“The latest installment of controversy of her legacy as a minister is coming from the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, which was closed down for over two years to allow for its upgrade into a real international airport. To this end, a contract was awarded at the cost of N86billion.‎

“The contractor’s brief was to scrape off the original 2.6km runway that and construct an entirely new one. However, what was done the dressing of its surface and the addition of a new one-kilometer stretch to make it 3.6km. But even the new one was shoddily built, making it unable to meet the standard specifications for runway construction.”

However, in a statement signed by her New Media aide, Abang Veronica, Oduah held that the publication was malicious, false and devoid of journalistic integrity.

“A malicious and completely false publication by Sahara Reporters about a contract awarded at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport during Princess Stella Oduah’s tenure as the Aviation Minister, has been brought to the attention of her media team.

“The Senator who represents Anambra North Senatorial District, is quite disappointed with the manner in which a hand full of media outlets have jettisoned their integrity and the credibility of the Nigerian media as a whole, by publishing falsehood to deliberately mislead Nigerians and making the only means of livelihood for Nigerian journalists, more difficult than it already is.

“The Senator refutes all allegations made by Sahara Reporters on said contract.

“Stella Oduah states categorically for the record, that the contract was awarded by her predecessor and challenges the online medium to provide evidence if it has any, to counter this.

“Senator Stella Oduah, a serving member of the Senate Committee on Aviation, wishes to use this opportunity to urge serious and credible media houses to strive, no matter how hard, to apply due diligence, run thorough fact checks, before going to print, to save Nigeria and Nigerians from ill-intentioned publications such as this, from Sahara Reporters,” the statement read.

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/03/enugu-airport-sahara-reporters.html

She's deflecting the N10 billion contract award for the runway which was truly awarded before her tenure while staying silent about the N13 billion she was given to refurbish the terminal when in fact the same N13 billion was more than enough to build a bigger and better airport from scratch with longer and better runway.

Either way, she contributed to the lousy state of that airport and looking at that terminal, I don't think she spent more than 1 billion on that terminal..


All in all, N23 billion in total is down the drain....

On the new International terminal for which he performed the Foundation Laying ceremony, Goodluck Jonathan said the project, to be built at a cost of about N13 billion will provide for 500, 000 international passengers and provide Enugu and the South East region not only “a modern, efficient, functional, safe and secure gateway, but most importantly a prestigious edifice that will offer a befitting welcome and goodbye from the region and Nigeria”

Earlier in her address of welcome, Aviation Minister, Princess Stella Adaeze Oduah said the occasion calls for celebration, not just for the people of the South East geo-political zone of the country, but indeed for all Nigerians, enthusing that the Transformation Agenda of Mr President “is being actualized tangibly at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu”.

Princess Oduah said the new international terminal with a total floor area of 25,000 square meters will have capacity to handle 500,000 passengers per annum and will be completed in 24 months. “On completion of the terminal, this airport will finally answer it’s name in the real sense of the word “Akanu Ibiam International Airport”.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/09/fg-approves-n106bn-for-construction-of-new-airport-terminals/

jamjo:
The problem with us Nigerians we enjoy mediocrity. Country like Kenya budgeted $250 million just to upgrade there old airport and we are here talking about $80 million for a new international airport shame on us. I don't want to argue with you about the cost of Dutse airport because there are other things that was included in Enugu that was not in Dutse and I'm not here also to support Oduah if she in anyway found guilty of embezzlement I'll be so happy to see her in jail .. But let be realistic here, this N13 billion which was about $80m when this contract was awarded was the total cost of this project upon completion, work are still on going on this project, so for someone to come up with accusation of N89 Billion are disingenuous when the project cost was 13 Billion. Government never have the money up front they budgeted as the project progressed . Eungu was not among the the airport to be built with the $500 million loan from China Abuja, Kano, Lagos and Port Harcourt. So i don't see how someone will embezzle such amount of money when the say money was not there in the first place.

1. You admitted that N10 billion was spent on the same airport in enugu before oduah

2. You also claimed that after the first N10 billion back in 2019, Oduah was then given N13 billion to refurbish a common terminal even though the N13 billion was more than enough to build a new and better airport from scratch with better and longer runway.

3 Now we are talking about N10 billion + N13 billion = N23 billion

4. So if better and modern Dutse international airport cost N11 billion to build, it means the N23 billion total spent refurbishing enugu airport was more than enough to build 2 modern and up to date international airport like Dutse international airport.

5. Now, after spending or looting N23 billion, Enugu airport is still not up to standard, still get flooded and still can not fly or land jumbo aircrafts, foreign airlines still won't fly in and out of enugu airport because of bad runway and not up to standard...



So exactly what are you defending here? You obviously are the one with mediocre thoughts and mentality..

safepassage2015:
aresa i have little words for you and your ilks. I have tried not to be tribal and i will not descend to ur shallow tactics to drag me to ur clannish level. I can vividly show u pics of airports getting flooded all over the world. Enugu been flooded by rainfall is not a perculiar case. I can also show evidence of leaking roofs in lagos and abuja airports along with other problems like power outages, airconditioner failures and the fact that they have just barely one terminal. But since you are so bothered about a flooded airport its ok. Its ur level. If u do fly abroad u will know this is the least problem for any airport. I hope i have convinced ur shallow mind

1. It doesn't matter where in the world airports get flooded, fact remains that something is wrong somewhere from lack of proper drainage system or shoddy construction work that should be addressed as a matter of urgency.

2. When airports in better parts of the world get flooded and they spent tons of money to fix the problem, they fix it for good, unlike in Nigeria where they spend billions to arrest such situations and the situation remains the same because somebody did a lousy job, didn't do anything or just embezzled the money via corruption.

3. When next you come up with such comparison, please make sure you show us where billions was spent to fix flooding airports and the situation remains the same. Please I'm not a fool so stop insulting me with goofy analogies and comparisons.

When other places spend such huge amount to address problems, they get good results, not lousy results and the same problems..

4. Do you mind explaining to us why N13 billion was spent on a mare terminal when in fact other states built complete, modern and better airports from scratch that can fly and land jumbo jets for less money?

5.Do you mind explaining to us why after the billions spent on the runway and the mind bugling N13 billion spent on the terminal, this airport in enugu airport still can not land or fly jumbo jets?

6. Do you mind explaining to us why international airlines refused to fly in and out of this airport because


Now, Is other airports around the world getting flooded a sane and rational justification for what you have today even with all the huge amount spent...?


There is no reason or need to defend anything or excuse this absurdity unless you are telling us to expect the same shameful results from you while in charge or given the responsibility and billions to do the job.

safepassage2015:
hey wise guy i know you are sympathetic and empathetic to enugu not having a cargo airline and we appreciate that. We also appreciate the fact that enugu remains an 'apology' to you online/armchair analysts while we practical users of the airport are extremely delighted and relieved of the stress of lagos, abuja and kano airports. The risks to our lives flying or going by road to these faraway airports has been completely resolved. Most importantly the financial stress of going far, lodging in a hotel along with cab fares has been resolved aswell. If all these factors make enugu airport an apology please on behalf of all the easterners in nigeria we humbly accept the apology and also graciously thank Aunty Stella and our democratic hero GEJ for making the airport a reality. For the record no airport in Nigeria is world class but you singled out enugu for obviously jelous reasons( cargo bay ). Please shove the bay up your butt and leave enugu and easterners alone to enjoy our apology. Since you care so much, channel your energy and campaign for a cargo airport in asaba/onitsha. Later we can 'together' clamour for 2nd Niger bridge too and dredge the river niger

https://newsrescue.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/floating-airport2.jpg



In sane and rational societies where people are held accountable, they lock up the kind of people you are thanking, I mean the kind of people you trusted with authority and billions of Naira to give you something at least decent, but end up giving you the shameful and disheartening absurdities in the above picture especially when other states built their own new and modern airport with better and up to date facilities for less money.


The terrible things tribal and clannish mentality and thoughts do to you people is very destructive and crippling..

jamjo:
The problem with us Nigerians we enjoy mediocrity. Country like Kenya budgeted $250 million just to upgrade there old airport and we are here talking about $80 million for a new international airport shame on us. I don't want to argue with you about the cost of Dutse airport because there are other things that was included in Enugu that was not in Dutse and I'm not here also to support Oduah if she in anyway found guilty of embezzlement I'll be so happy to see her in jail .. But let be realistic here, this N13 billion which was about $80m when this contract was awarded was the total cost of this project upon completion, work are still on going on this project, so for someone to come up with accusation of N89 Billion are disingenuous when the project cost was 13 Billion. Government never have the money up front they budgeted as the project progressed . Eungu was not among the the airport to be built with the $500 million loan from China Abuja, Kano, Lagos and Port Harcourt. So i don't see how someone will embezzle such amount of money when the say money was not there in the first place.

What's in almost obsolete enugu airport that's not in Dutse airport.

Dutse airport is not an international on paper, it's real international airport with 3.6 klm runway, probably the longest in Nigeria and caoacity to to land and fly jumbo jet. The proof is in the picture i posted and the airport doesn't flood like enugu.

You cam not even compare an almost comatose airport that was refurbished with low standards and still not up to par with dutse that was built from scratch in a modern era and with modern materials and technology.

You also can not tell me something is not missing when 13 billion was spent on an ordinary terminal against a new and better airport built for 11 billion from scratchh with longer concrete runway and capacity to fly and land jumbo jets which enugu airport with all the invisible 13 billion can not do.

This is how he controls his people and get away with his incompetence and total abdication of responsibility.


These sily theatrics and stomach games aside, we know this state is poor and broke so no meaningful development of infrastructural progress is expected, but as a leader you know the situation can not and should not remain the same. He should be finding ways with programs and policies to redirect the state financially and economically, he should be empowering them, teaching them how to catch fish instead of feeding them fish..

Sadly, regardless how he leaves office, he's leaving and handing over a stagnant and decayed state with zero improvement.

This is nothing but a sad mixure of missed opportunities and stomach distracted populace..

What a tragedy..

new2020:
Highest Number of professors is Imo state. Stop yoruba propaganda!

Tribal chest beaters no dey waste time....lol

#PDPhouseOfHunger carrying firewood in he wilderness....


Sucks to be PDpeeGS these days...

jamjo:
I don't want to analyze your questions but if my mind serves me better the contract to upgrade that airport was done September 3 2009 at the cost of N10 billion before Stella Oduah became the minister. The new terminal at the cost of N13 billion during her time as the minister, so please can anyone tell me where this 89 billion came from but please i wish to be corrected ..

Let's even dispense with the SR billions, N13 billion or less is what other states spend on new airport from scratch including new and up to international standard runway, but the woman you are talking spent N13 billion on a common terminal, this has got to be a sad joke..


The new and better Dutse international airport cost only N1105 billion to build with capacity to accommodate jumbo aircraft with its 3.6 kilometres runway.


www.nairaland.com/attachments/1802103_a_jpeg14a53cac5a312f3d1ad4980fec051d42

www.nairaland.com/attachments/1802104_b_jpeg0ffe7dcb11da9a174bea48bd356ea1ba


https://i.imgur.com/tvG78ZV.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/iymJAoI.jpg



^^^^^^^^^All for N11.5 billion and not the N13 billion Oduah spent on ordinary terminal that's not even on the same level with Dutse Airport.

We Got a Marching Order On N11.5 Billion Dutse Airport'

http://allafrica.com/stories/201401130730.html


SMH...