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AsomughaChuks02:
Is he from Anambra? Because only a hateful opposition or mentally challenged Anambra indigene would be against such a laudable project.

AsomughaChuks02:
Work is going on at the airport at neckbreak speed. You should know that most of the print journalists and correspondents for major dailies working in Anambra are PDP hirelings who are out to misrepresent the Obiano administration since Obiano chose to work only with ABS, Channels TV, National Light, Purity fm and Odenigbo fm.

mktinsight:
Anambra: Don’t bother me about Anambra airport project, Obiano’s commissioner lashes journalistJune 17, 2020 Okechukwu Onuegbu News 0Barely seven months of boasting that the Anambra state International Cargo Airport project would be completed in less than 18 months, there is indication that work has not started at the site after the state commissioner for Works, Mr Marcel Ifejiofor, told journalists they won’t access it.A team of investigative journalists including Blueprint reporter had gone to find out the pace of work at the site since Governor Willie Obiano, on November 27, 2019 during the Anambra Business and Investment Roundtable held at Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia, said the project would be completed before 18 months.
biano equally claimed that work has resumed on the site with clearing done at about a kilometer out of 3.6 kilometer runway[b]“Oga, sorry, we don’t entertain journalists here any longer. You can’t be allowed to see its pace. You can call the works commissioner to confirm it,” two ununiformed men stationed at the entrance to the site stated, adding that the commissioner was on site with the contracting firmBut a look from afar showed that there was no work on the site except a visible sign of a newly cleared road by bulldozer, first of its kind since 2017 the work was flagged off.[When the commissioner for works, Mr Ifejiofor was contacted on the phone, he queried, “Why are you here? Who told you to come here? We don’t allow people to come here, you can’t come, but you can come to my office on the following Wednesday by 10am,” he saOn Wednesday, the commissioner fumed again,“I don’t know what you want to be told about the project. Go and quote me, just say work has not started. I am not ready to talk further on the project, so you can say that I said no comment. If you have other things to know about the state of roads in Anambra, I will be ready to speak to you, but I am not willing to talk about the airport.ny time I want to make a comment I will tell you. If the project had started our Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) would have carried the report. [/b]s it because I allowed you into my office? How many commissioners in the state can allow you into their offices the way I allowed you people not to talk of other eastern states. I don’t have any comments on the project,” he saidObiano had at a budget presentation at Anambra State House of Assembly on September 26, 2019 announced that the government has earmarked N6 billion naira for the construction of the Anambra State International Cargo Airport at Umueri, Anambra East local government area in fulfilment of his promise at 2017 governorship campaign.he governor in 2017 inaugurated the airport project which, according to him, included a mall, industrial, business park, airport hotel and others, claiming that it would boost economic development and increase the income base of the state.he project, estimated to cost over $2 billion and would be developed through a partnership between the Anambra State Government, Orient Petroleum Resources and Elite International Investments. Elite International Investments was specifically said to provide all funds under a build, operate, manage and transfer agreement.Earlier in 2017, Obiano said it was a Chinese company, Sinoking International that would build it at no cost to the state through a Build-Operate-Manage and Transfer (BOMT) basis

Rocksvibes234:
Mr. How sure are you of what you are saying. are you Obiano, are you one of the contractor workers, are you part of the airport supervisors/delivery . Or even media men please tell us

mktinsight:
It's called knowhow. One is that before you build a runway you have to get the Subbase and base course set before the pavement itself. You have to plan for drainage since we get a lot of rain in our parts. You don't just start building a runway pavement. A standard runway will take a minimum of 2-3 years to build. I suggest you follow how the FGN is constructing Abuja's Second runway for an idea of the standardized process takes not Obiano's disorganized way of doing things. The design phase alone will cost 1.7 billion naira and is being handled by Julius Berger. The actual runway is expected to cost over 64 billion naira. There are no shortcuts for serious infrastructure projects.Go and read:https://www.dublinairport.com/blog/2019/07/17/how-to-build-a-runway-part-1https://www.dublinairport.com/blog/2019/07/31/how-to-build-a-runway-part-2

mktinsight:
Americans build all their highway and state roads with rebar and reinforced concrete. It costs a lot of money and costs a lot to maintain.What Obiano is building in that picture is not a runway. A runway is 2m deep, 60m wide and 3km long. It requires tremendous earthworks and specialized equipment not people pouring Cement over iron rodssaba took shortcuts on their runway and it was a perennial danger. I had a British pilot classmate who almost crashed landing on that horrible runway and that was with a private jet which is far smaller than a 737. Okowa did the right thing by rewarding the contract to setraco.

mktinsight:
What is 1 million monthly? I was making that at the age of 26. There are few companies that build runways and their top engineers are paid over 200,000 usd tax free or 6 million per month. What you are paying for is knowhow not concrete and there is a reason Nigerians can't even boast of simple water system something oyibo built over 100 years ago. y concern is let's get things right than empty bravado. Big projects are not cheap. Skills are not cheapm Obianos problem is he takes shortcuts like an African tinpot dictator.

Rocksvibes234:
From the anambra airport site

Lostz:
and he is running with his deputy. Lagos/ibadan propaganda media made us believe it is impossible

Rocksvibes234:
This airport city project is paining him so much, tufiakwa

eduj:
that's not true. When I worked with mecmond construction company, we where major contractors for building GZI aba plant. some of the work involved earth stabilisation -like what you do when building an airport runway (some sections of the company had to withstand load distribution from 6 fully loaded 100,000 litres tanks) .point is we pulled it off with local labour directed by engineers from the east.
The problem is that local contractors (competent ones) are not trusted enough in some cases or the are more liable to corruption

IGBOSON1:
Yeah, i think this is the route Anambra is taking to construct the airport....a template that has worked well for Umahi (a latter day King Midas)! This will cut the cost by more than half! Of course there are some aspects of the construction where they will have to bring in experienced engineers and contractors to ensure standards are met....like the control tower for instance! The terminal building can be handled by indigenous engineers!

mktinsight:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilimanjaro_International_Airport

mktinsight:
The terminal of an airport can be tiny but the runway and control tower, ILS navigation, baggage handling is where the cost is. ake a look at Kilimanjaro International Airport in Tanzania below.

mktinsight:
Building parking or loading bays for trucks is different from building a runway of 3KM to withstand stresses of 70 tonnes or more. Nigerian government is spending 64 billion to build the second runway of Abuja International Airport. Delta State government spent over 20 billion to build just the runway at Asaba Airport which had to be re-awarded to Setraco. Anambra that has a yearly revenue of 97 billion is allocating 6 billion to build what exactly? Roads to an airport they do not have money for? Obiano to me is a poor administrator. In almost 7 years he cannot point to a project of EXCELLENCE he has completed fully. His ICC is uncompleted. His expressway in Awka is uncompleted. 7 years and 700 billion and you don't see where it all went. No new roads in any of the cities. Filthy Markets causing chaos everywhere. Oh I forgot. We have street lights.

Rocksvibes234:
Stay there and be talking rubbish more videos and pics are coming from the Anambra Airport City, terminal building, apron, diversion, runway and rest of them. Is better u die now and rest so that who won't die when you see the latest update pics and videos

mktinsight:
Nigerian labor is poorly skilled and overly expensive. Thats why tillers, masons are sourced from Togo and Benin. To get the construction sector cheaper you have to stop all the illegal hawking which makes labor expensive. Then people will work to eat and not be selling all sorts of things along the road.

ChimaAdeoye:
Obiano celebrated his 6th year anniversary doing this in Anambra. He could have gone for a thanksgiving service with Bishops and then party all day receiving "Well-wishers" in government house as many Nigerian governors do on their anniversary. Instead, he spent the day inspecting and commissioning finished projects in all senatorial districts of the state.

We know the faceless tout here with multiple fake accounts replying to himself and trying to get even negative attention from normal people. That tout won't get any

Anyhow, this video is for gainfully EMPLOYED people , who can afford the data to watch the entire activity of Gov Obiano on his anniversary day ! Imagine if Obiano had huge allocation like many Niger Delta and northern states! Anambra would be totally transformed by the end of his administration.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JteszfZz17E

Ceegar01:
Willie is working! Umueri airport still ongoing

mktinsight:
Why do airport runways cost so much to build? Brisbane Airport Corporation reported that a new runway would cost $1.3B and is seven years away.eter Wheeler
Peter Wheeler, Flight Instructor, turboprop Air Transport pilot, Australunways must have deeper foundations and more complex surfaces than a highway. I'll consider a runway at a major airport that regularly sees A380 movements - around 400 tons of weight distributed over the main wheels under the wing root. (The nose wheels carry little weight in comparison.)irstly, the runway has to be nearly flat with no lateral gradient, to minimise the chance of aircraft losing control at high speed. That requirement will require some earthworks to begin with.
The foundation: the area where aircraft touch down (land) carries the highest stress. It's quite possible for this part of the runway to have 2m thick foundations of concrete and gravel, in addition to the usual substrate of graded-and-rolled gravel base. Other parts of the runway will have thinner foundations, but still much thicker than a highway.The surface: the runway must offer a high-friction surface to aid stopping, even when it is wet. Standing water must be avoided if possible even in heavy rain, lest aquaplaning occur with associated loss of control. The two main ways you can get good drainage without camber is either by grooving - parallel grooves cut across the runway - or porous asphalt, which allows water to drain through to a substrate layer, from which it is collected and channeled out to either side. Grooves are cheap but must be cleaned out regularly when they fill with rubber from tyres. Porous asphalt is expensive and must also be cleaned, again from rubber deposits.All of this must be done for a runway between 3 & 4 km long (say 9000' to 13000' in the old system), and 60m wide (200') for full strength, with an additional partial-strength shoulder on each side.At places where an aircraft might turn, such as near taxiways, the asphalt must be strong enough to support twisting loads, as the aircraft bogeys (main wheel assemblies) twist to follow a steerable nose wheel.All this must maintain full strength from a cold winter morning to a hot summer day, without the asphalt cracking, deforming or becoming too sticky.nce the runway is built, you will need runway end lights, runway edge lights, runway centre line lights, touchdown zone lights, runway end identifier lights, an approach lighting system and, for large airports, a precision approach path indicator, a localiser antenna array & glide slope array x2 (for the two landing directions). All these must either be flush with the surface or mounted on frangible supports, so if (when!) an aircraft rolls over them, they will break without severely damaging the aircraft and becoming a hazard to people inside. All lights have specific colours and (adjustable) brightness tolerances to meet.n addition to lighting, you need paint, lots of paint. Centre line, end numbering, touchdown zone, taxiway exit & lead-in lines will do, but that's still quite a lot of buckets & brushes.

mktinsight:
ULO Responsible for Failed Asaba Airport Runway- Works CommissionerThe Honorable Commissioner for Works, Hon. James Augoye in a shocking revelation has submitted with evidence that ULO Consultancy Limited is solely responsible for the failure of the Asaba International Airport Runway averring that the runway which was supposed to last for at least 20 years was not properly constructed.Hon Augoye disclosed this on Tuesday November 21, 2017 at the ongoing investigation into the poor execution of the Airport project instituted by the House Committee on Works of the Delta State House of Assembly, stating that, the Airport construction contract which was awarded to ULO Contractors on 13th of February 2008, at a cost of N21.2bn with 50% advanced payment, failed within four years and was again re-awarded to ULO for rehabilitation in 2015The Commissioner further revealed that most of the contracts awarded to ULO had no contract agreements adding that these contracts were not also completed by the contractor, thus putting the State Government in deficitsAugoye stated that although the Ministry of Works is charged with the responsibility of valuing work done cum supervision and approval of raised certificates, the rehabilitation contract was still awarded to the same contractor due to some State Executive Fiat adding that the formal disengagement of ULO contractors which was recently presented to the State Government is a welcomed development and should be considered for reception even in the face of the N1.5bn debt against ULO.In his response, the chairman of ULO Consultancy Limited, Chief Uche Okpunor said, that there have never been a perfect runway since the construction of runways in Nigeria adding that maintenance and restructuring is a norm.peaking further Chief Okpunor said that the Obstacle Free-Zone contract was divided into three where each contractor was expected to attempt a minimum of 30% and if properly checked it will be noted that ULO was given the most tasking part against the backdrop that it was equally divided into 3 equal parts adding that the advanced payments of 50% done in 2014 and is not co-measurably worthy to stand the increasing cost of things in subsequent years till date.ULO in its defense, revealed that the Airport drainage contract given to the company was without design which encapsulated a seven months disagreement before going to site. However, this allegation was debunked by the serving permanent secretary to the State Ministry for Works, Mr Austine Ayemindejor who said that the ministry appointed a consultant who did a design and adequately furnished ULO with it but the contractor rather brought in their technical partners who after a report brought a design not too different from the first design.

mktinsight:
If Obiano could not build a decent highway then what makes you think he can build a decent airport runway. Contrast the rubbish IDC built between Awka and Amawbia to what RCC is building from Umunya. The IDC highway (still uncompleted) is not level and towards Government House Awka is downright dangerous when it rains because of the undulating surface which accelerates loss of control.