₦airaland Forum

The wise thing Otti would have done is to pick up his phone and congratulate Dr Okezie Ikpeazu.. Let Otti behave ... And go back to the bank where he belong

APGA HAS NOT HOPE HERE..

Otti is a desperate man... Who needs power by all means.. Nawaaooo

Alex Otti is one big criminal that thinks that very thing can be bought over with money...he bribes the INEC REC.. to cancel result, he bribes the police who has confessed that Oti bribe him... This man Oti will loot all the state money ooo plz stop him

It so very surprising how people frame up stories... The whole event took place at CKC Aba where the crowd was much and the presence of T.A was cheered by Aba people at the event, so I don't know where the writer got his story.

It is very unfortunate that we Nigerians claim to be very vise but we can't even show that our wisdom to solves our problem, we only use it in baseless criticism...believe it or not T.A has done very well in Abia st

It is clear that the few that are talking against good heart of empowerment are the people that have have benefited yet, but the truth is that T.A has turn around the economy of Abia state for better. This morning as a come into Umuahia town i see about four of the long AC buses for school children. No governor from the creation of Abia has done so greatly as T.A.
Developing our educational sector is top on our priority. Providing conducive environment for learning is a commitment we have made and what we owe every school age child in Abia State. But our current commitment is stronger than any time. We shall continue to improve the infrastructures in our schools.

We shall equally commit ourselves to improving gender equality in primary, secondary and tertiary education while sustaining the free tuition and free bus to school scheme for primary and secondary children in the State.

Today, I took some time out from other official duties to visit some of the projects we are carrying out across the State's educational sector. From School Road Primary School, Afuguri Central School, Ahiaeke Primary, Ahieke Community Secondary School to the Pretigious Government College Umuahia.

In all of these Schools visited, I observed a lot of improvement in the development of modern structures and facilities that will enhance learning and development of every School age child in the State. For me, Every kobo budgeted for education in Abia State must be fully utilized for the development of our schools...There is no room to allow our children learn under harsh condition. T.A.O

It is true that governance in Abia state has procreated a lot of challenges, consequentially, greatest if the greatest. A few like T.A has comprehended what democratic leadership is and how democracy can be ran to improve development in the wider sense.Leadership starts with nerve-racking passion that seizes you, and will commove the gradation mentality, and this phenomenal apathy varies with leader to leader.
Governor T.A has the mental resources and intellectual gradients which determines how he responds to the challenges and this has yielded much advantages and brought lot of change, either to sustain, transformation, retain growth and uphold the validity of progress Abia state over a period of time.

T.A Orji has examined the backwardness and build up rot which ensues from improper handling of issues that could obviously be traced from the inventive period when Abia state was created . He is a leader that does strive for a balance on its success and continuity,attract development in its justifiable act of genuinely democratic-polity and systematic approach forming basis of a democratic reality.it is true that is widely believed that Abia state can be said to have had a dysfunctional domain of history of downsize performance coming way back as from the time of creation of Abia state. people cast aspersion ,its is an every day norm, and it is always said that Abia leaders, governors, present and past lack transparently most reliable structures, certain operative context and diplomats hinging on knowledge in all their varieties as their ultimate resources and have fallen below the immediate goal of democratization of the electoral process which contradicts what is been expected of them by their followers.

Unlike T.A Orji, some if not all those who were before him were focused on personal interest by employing constricted and artful leadership styles and made no difference. T.A has demonstrated his administration without cynicism, and such an operative system is a necessity to achieving a critical project. He has manifested a firm reliance and his relationship-oriented manner has create the affinity amongst the people of Abia state.

T.A is a leader who is not arrogance, he is neither hostile nor dominance. he is possesses the character of a leader that does not create deep-seated antagonism between his aides and his underlings . T.A ORJI is a leader who is ever ready to endure the trashed heaped on his head, and he must not revile.

The past leaders in Abia had assumed that we do not have any dreams to be fulfilled, they lost track of the rudimentary process which was important to embark on and lead us to our destiny. Propaganda ate deep into their system,selfish interest brought down their values , and the significant of democratic leadership was not met and which made them to fail in their very tenures.

Not too long again before the fruitless tenure of Orji Uzor Kalu collapsed under the weight of repression , dictatorship and autocratic.-he turned the Abia state to a political laboratory and came up with a grandiose political transition that was described as the most non-democratically and non-profitable in of its era which produced no democracy. An administration which created the dullardity of no transformation. OUK's dual tenures were an industry whose business experience held no water in democratic terrain. Obviously he was unable to diffuse the polity in good manner.

But after his eviction from office by constitutional duration, came a man we should support his efforts ,that are spontaneously bringing the desired socio- economic development. T.A Orji made the different and with total consummation we will encourage him to observe continuity and be more clinical in avoidance of uneven disposition of democratic and political influence in order to balance energetic sense of purpose with a concern for the service of others.

It is very clear that every government has it own challenges, in Abia state the city of Aba has been a big challenge to the governance from the time of creation but today the government of T.A has taken it as a top priority to put the roads and the management of refuse in good condition.

As a true child of Abia state i have lived in Aba as a city and i know how the people living in Aba behaves and how people dumb refuse, despite that the government has taken it as a major priority to keep Aba clean and come to talk of it every body knows that the roads condition in Aba has improved to be compared with the previous governors. so i don't even know where the so called Odimegwe gets his news and blackmailing news and information... Such a lair
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All this developmental edifice are great testimony that show the great vision of T.A who has come on a mission.Truly no argument that Abia state is the fastest growing in the east of Niger.

How can a man that call him self a leader act in such a way Rochas did against Abia state, that is pure economic battle he has just initiated. This Rochas came with all his pretends just to steal the heart of people now his true self is coming out as he can not pretend for ever but he should be careful with Abia state.

It is very clear that this wrong pictures of Aba posted here are fake pictures, just trying to project Aba as a dirty place but i don't know what you gain doing all this.The government of Abia state is doing every to make sure that the economic center of Abia is in a beautiful form. Many of the roads in the city has been recently constructed and commissioned.God bless Abia

It is good when people wants to criticize you do so with true facts, not false talks and picture. It is very clear that the pix you posted here is not Aba, the people living in Aba is confirming the good works of the government. Clearly and with clear label you can see the new look of Aba.so it doesn't matter what you say but the fact is that Aba is receiving the maximum attention by the government of T.A

History of leadership in Africa is replete with dramatis personae whose roles and dynamics accorded them nomenclatures other than those they had originally been named by their parents. A few example would suffice. Before the examples, it may be necessary to state that these names or titles evolved as a result of the circmstances prevalent at a given time, which nececcitated the emergence of such a leader. In Ghana, formerly known as Gold Coast, colonialism and imperialism had combined to subject her citizens to a various degree of exploitation. They had expected that their traditional rulers and Dr. Joseph B. Danquah; being the most prominent indigeneous political activist at that time, would have come to their rescue. But this was not to be. When, however, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah appeared on the scene, with a clear vision of what he wanted for his people, which, ofcourse, was total liberation and engaging in activities that would lead to his imprisonment before becoming leader of Government Business and later President of Ghana, the Ghanians named him ‘The Osagyefo; meaning ‘The Redeemer’. In Tanzania, due to circumstances not too strange to those of Ghana, Dr. Julius Nyerere was known as ‘The Nwalimu, meaning ‘The Teacher’ and ofcourse, he taught his people the methodology of emancipation from bondage. Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya fought, unabatedly, for the independence of his people and became known as Mzee. The most iconic African figure of moral authority; our own highly reverred Dr. Nelson Mandella is known all over South-Africa and, indeed, the world over as ‘Madiba’. It could, therefore, follow that for any nomenclatural suffic attached to a leader, such a title must have its philosophical undertone and circumstantial originality.

In God’s own State of Abia, the incumbent Governor, Chief (Sir) Theodore Ahamefule Orji, has an appellation that is known as ’Ochendo’. I do not think I may be wrong to assume that this title has gone beyond Abia. This is because a title that is associated with a sitting Governor and has appeared in more than one thousand publications; in the print and electronic media and globally via the internet, cannot be said to be restricted to a geographical environment. Ochendo has, therefore, assumed a very wide usage both within and outside Nigeria.
As may not completely be ruled out, many persons who call Ochendo may not have borthered to ask what the meaning of Ochendo is. Basically, Ochendo is an Igbo word which translates to protection and defence of life. It could be protection against the vagaries of weather, harsh socio-economic conditions or inhumanity arising from man against man. In a literary simplified sense, the umbrella, rain-coat, rain-booth, various forms of generosity, philanthrophy, liberation and defence symbolize Ochendo or as I have always preferred to put it; ‘Ochendoism’.

That Ochendoism has been meaningfully popular and acceptable in Abia State must suggest that it has its philosophical significance in the socio-econo-political existentiallism of the people of the state.

From a pragmatic point of view, it has to be stated that for the collectivity of the above components of Ochendoism to be manifest in the practicality of the philosophy, the principles of collectivism, reconcilliation, justice which incorporates equity, security and peace, economic integration that does not exclude agricultural development, intellectual foundation, commercial enterprise that is not isolated from skill acquisition, effective public service mechanism and equally importantly, synergy between government and the private sector and also co-operation with religious leaders. Ochendoism, from a critical appreciation, has manifested positively in all the social, economic and political firmaments of the Abia dynamics.

Before Governor T. A. Orji’s emergence, the state was devastatingly torn into factions; the major gladiators being the home-based politicians and the Abuja domicilled Abia politicians. There was no love lost between the two. The result of this avoidable rancour was that the State became the victim. But Governor T. A. Orji, being a seasoned tecnocrat and bureaucrat, did not need to consult any oracle to realize that such a cat and dog relationship, if not radically resolved, would continue to constitute a clog on the wheel of the progress of the State. Ochendo quickly reconcilled all the warring factions in the state and, without hesitation, gave every Abia his or her right. The only personality that was inevitably left out in the reconcilliation agenda was the former Governor, whom every well-meaning Abian knows as a man whose interest and ambition are the exact antithesis of collectivism and progress.

Today, Abians speak with one voice, with coherence that means peace arising from equity. Nobody or section, within the frame-work of Ochendoism, complains of marginalization or inequity. To make sure that people conduct their legitimate trades or business uninhibited, the Government of Chief T. A. Orji, spurred by the philosophy of Ochendoism, has practically made seucrity of lives and property a top priority. There is no iota of exaggeration to say that, contemporarilly-speaking, Abia State has emerged from a volatile security state to one of the most secured states of the Nigerian Federation.

As a state, Abia has one of the lowest Federal allocations, despite being an oil-producing state. Before the election of Chief T. A. Orji as Governor, transparency had nothing to do with the financial management of the state. While the former Governor could, as a sitting Governor, buy an Ocean-going vessel and name it after his daughter and even had the temerity of inviting a sitting President to launch the ship at Port-Harcourt, an invitation the President unmistakably turned down, Ochendo is not given to quest for materialism and has, so far, managed the financial fortunes of the state so prudently and transparently that Abia State has been, undeniably, proclaimed by no mean an institution than the National Assembly as one of the few financially healthy states of the Federation. The philosophy of Ochendoism dictates that the State Government and her indigenes cut their coat according to their cloth and not according to their size. Hence the government of Abia State, under Ochendo, has not borrowed money either internally or externally. Ochendoism implies that the successor of Governor T. A. Orji will not be encumbered by an avalange of inherited debts.

In the same vein, Ochendoism demands that the morale of the public servants in the state should be high. This is why, no sooner had Chief T. A. Orji emerged as Governor, than every public servant was automatically promoted to the next salary grade level. The history of public service in Nigeria places Ochendo as the First Governor to display this uncommon generosity. It is equally in this direction that the government pays twenty thousand and one hundred naira as minimum wage to her workers even when the Federal Government has legislated eighteen thousand naira as minimum wage. The morale-boosting agenda of the governor for Abia workers does not end at their wages. The government has gone further to enhance their environmental cum psychological affectation by building a modern secretariat complex for them, reconstructing and refurbishing existing dilapidated offices.

Ochendoism places much emphasis on the educational development of the state. Primary and Secondary education are tuition-free in state-owned institutions. Many of the Schools in the state were built before the Nigerian-Biafran war and have, therefore, become dilapidated. The government of Chief T. A. Orji has been unrelenting in her determination to renovate such school buildings and also build new structures. The Abia State government, inspite of her financial inadequacies, occupies the top-most echelon in the ranks of state governments that own and effectively run tertiary institutions. Under Ochendo, the state government has efficiently coped with the numerous challenges associated with the various compuses of the Abia State University, the rapidly growing Abia State Polytechnic at Aba, the Abia State College of Education (Technical) at Arochukwu and the Abia State College of Health at Aba. These Institutions of higher learning engulp enormous resources of the state yet the philosophy of Ochendoism fires the state Government on.

The philosophy underneath Ochendoism places emphasis on self actualization. To this effect, the government has been motivating agricultural practices. Not too long ago, the state government doled out a one billion naira interest-free loan to genuine farmers in the state. The government has been encouraging profitable development of her palm-plantations, cocoa plantations, rubber plantations, cassava farms and animal husbandry, including fishery. Liberation farms are springing up.

Traders are being encouraged by providing them with large modern markets at Ndume-Ibeku and Ubani-Ibeku. Old markets in the state such as Ariaria International Market, Ekeoha Shopping Centre, Ngwa Road Market, Ohabiam Electronics Market and Ehere Market, all in Aba, are systematically being renovated and modernized. Aba has had a face-lift under Ochendo after many years of infrastructural abandonment and decay. Umuahia now wears the real look of a state capital, unlike what it was before. Ochendoism is synonymous with youth empowerment and gender sensitivity. Before the emergence of Chief T. A. Orji as the Abia helmsman, Abia Youths who were considered very lucky and well connected could only get wheel-barrows. The youths then were made to accept povery and defeatism as an acceptable way of life. But under Ochendoism, Abia Youths have comfortably been made to experience the other side of life. The government of ochendo has exposed them to various forms of skill acquisitoin, ranging from craftmanship to computer technicalities. Apart from skill acquisition, the administration, which outlawed the use of commercial motor-cycles in the urban cities of Umuahia and Aba in order to address crime, has consistently empowered the Abia Youths with donation of hundreds of tricycletes, cars and buses. About five thousand Abia Youths are being paid fifteen thousand naira each per month. These and many other incentives are pragmatic disposition of Ochendoism in addressing youth unemployment and its attedant restiveness.

In the philosophical outlay of Ochendoism is the very strong belief that the health of the citizenry of any given polity determines its success in the pursuit of her set goals. Contingent upon this, the Ochendo administration has, unabatedly, placed premium on the health of Abia people. His government initiated and built the Abia Specialist and Diagnostic Hospital at Umuahia. This hospital is an innovation on its own as there is no ailment that can not be successfully diagnosed in it. It is a very result-oriented partnership between the state government and MECURE OF India. The Abia State University Teaching Hospital at Aba has been enjoying commensurate funding by the state government and recently constructed an elevator to ease the pains of her patients who may be unable to climb the steps. The story there is a comprehensive success.

The hospital at Amachara, which before the emergence of Governor T. A. Orji, was incapable of competing with any well equipped, staffed and managed Health centre, has today been transformed into a Specialist hospital, having the right calibre of medical personnel, equipment and funding. Abandoned General hospitals at Okeikpe, Okpuala-Ngwa, Arochukwu andmany other places have been vigorously renovated and refurbished to make them capable of addressing the health needs of the people. Ochendo’s grass-roots health policy is that every community in the state should have a functional health cenre. Towards the realization of this objective, the government has built about two hundred and fifty health centres, equitably distributed in the three senatorial zones of the state.

In the area of administration, the philosophy of Ochendoism has injected stability and confidence in the system. Prior to the election of Chief T. A. Orji, the State Executive Council could not exceed six months in a stretch and no commissioner was appointed without being taken to a juju shrine to swear to an oath of unconstitutional allegiance to the family of the then governor. It did not stop at that. The intending commissioner was equally required to cough out some reasonable amount of money before being so apppointed. By June 2013, the Commissioners serving in the administration of Governor T. A. Orji would have served two years, having come on board in July 2011. None paid a dime. None was taken to any shrine. There is no gainsaying the fact that the founding fathers of Abia State laid its foundation in their uncompromised faith in God, hence Abia is known as God’s Own State.

Before the advent of Ochendo as Governor, Abia had been forced into a goon’s own state. During that time, the Ogwugwu shrine in Okija in Anambra State had become the official holy temple of the state government. But Ochendoism implies that the people of God’s Own State should worship the God that created Heaven and Earth. The relationship between the government of Ochendo and religious leaders in the state has been unprecedentedly cordial. Ochendo believes so much in the efficacy of Christianity and the Church that he is the only Governor, since the end of the Nigerian-Biafran war, fourty-three years ago, that has successfully handed schools back to their former missionary owners, in the state. He has also handed over hospitals to their former missionary owners. It is also beyond any doubt that he has sponsored the highest number of Christian pilgrims to Israel between 1997 and 2013. Being a quintessential advocate of the Nigerian State and unity, Ochendo has been very generous in the sponsorship of Muslims in the state to Mecca. Many non-indigenes hold political appointments in the state, including execution of big contracts.

Ochendoism appreciates the importance of tourism. Hence the administration of the state does not only encourage investors in this sector but has taken a very bold step by initiating and constructing an international conference centre that will make Abia State a destination point for intellectuals, professionals, administrators, diplomats and business executives.

Summarily put, Ochendoism is the tenacious application of vision, transparency, justice, equity, altruism, intellect, humanity, partnership with the federal government and above all, the fear of God in managing the affairs of a people by its leadership.




Chief (Sir) Don Ubani; KSC, JP
(Okwubunka of Asa)

The fact is that the works of T.A for Abians is so outstanding,people can never stop gossiping,well people like you are still good to have cos you keep Nairaland busy. The Timber market is a very big achievement like it or not, is one project that you can never forget and i bet you soon you will know how good T.A has been to you. T.A is such a great man with a great vision in pictures. God bless Abia.

The Abia youth Empowerment Summit slated for Wednesday 24th, April 2013, came with a bang. It unfolded as structured and every item on the programme hit the ground running. As expected and witnessed, the buildup on the print and electronic media was spectacular. Broadcasting Corporation of Abia had it on radio and TV every five minutes. The FRCN got more than their fair share and newspapers were awash, heralding the date of the event and the awesome profile and capacity of the guest speaker.

For so many it was a promise kept as the Michael Okpara Auditorium was festive and festooned with ribbons of national hue. In short, the venue was dressed like a bride for a prince and there was an intercourse of ideas. Abians imbibed to the brim.

Chief T.A. Orji, long aware of the precarious and vulnerable position of the youths has done so much to address their imbalance. It may not need any stressing that the youth are in larger numbers in all activities. They are energetic though inexperienced, experimental to the extent that any action is better than no action. The odious in society recruit hands from the youth, even the church need the youth more than politicians in the largest numbers to chant and cheer.

Some negative politicians dispatch youths to hoot their opponents to submission, others do not feel guilty handing them cudgels, knives at times, guns to work as body guards, foot soldiers and plain thugs. Those who plan to rig elections, especially in thumb printing woo the youths. The able Governor of Abia, having been an active youth, passing through schools and serving the nation in the NYSC in Sokoto State, can double as a consultant on youth affairs as he has constantly observed youths in all stages of their lives, commenting, condemning or correcting as the case demanded.
Accordingly, he has not relented since in office from his days as Chief of Staff when he was honoured and adopted a patron saint of the youths.

In many of his encounters with the teeming youths, he has always promised and worked hard to meet them at their point of needs. Little wonder youth empowerment has dominated his family outreach. The free education from primary to secondary level and the free transport from home to school and back in Umuahia and Aba cities were cheery news when it was enacted in 2007. The monthly payment to some carefully selected youths from all the electoral wards in Abia was unheard of and put genuine smiles on many faces.

Creation of employment opportunities has been a continuous exercise in many sectors notably, the rejigging of Abia Rubber Company in Abam involving collaboration with an international firm, the resuscitation of all Oil Palm Estates in Abia starting with Ohambele and Mbawsi Oil mills are all targeted at accommodating the youth who form the largest employable block in Abia.

The life improving Ochendo Liberation Farms in all the L.G.As is an orchestrated scheme aimed at bequeathing survival skills, allowing the youth a chance to moderate their destiny and becoming producers rather than consumers. It would be recalled that the Amnesty programme extended by the federal Government to the militants in Niger Delta areas eluded Abia at the initial time, but Chief T.A. Orji skillfully negotiated Abia militants to benefit for which a camp was established in Abia South and today, those who willingly embraced the amnesty are reformed and reintegrated into society.

Investors have been encouraged and given incentives to invest as to employ our teeming youths. Last week, Wednesday April 17th, the ground breaking ceremony marking the take off of Shoprite, a South African Superstore chain is a grand design to increase the employment window for youths in Abia. The Abia Government allocated a vast land in Uwalaka Road, combining the Old Garki and Asubeb land space to accommodate the behemoth stores. There are others too numerous to mention.

According to an Igbo proverb, ‘the small goat watches the mother’s mouth as it chews the curd.’ It is on record that immediately after the elections Engr. Chinedu Orji popularly called Ikuku inaugurated the Ochendo youth foundation. It is timely as he propped up the youth and involved them into so many activities. Henceforth youths gathered in Osisioma, Ohafia and were bequeathed with life-serving tools and gadgets like tricycles, barbing and hair salon equipments ranging from clippers, dryers, generating sets, computers all in the North and South senatorial zones.

Her Excellency, Lady Mercy Orji has not been left out. Her pet project Hannah May has particularly borne the cross for the female youth. Skill acquisition tools like sewing machines, hairdressing dryers, manicure and pedicure kits have been given out. Prostheses, for amputee youths, wheel chairs and crutches have been handed to the needy. Right now the skill acquisition centre opposite the Nnamdi Azikiwe Secretariat in Umuahia is busy training youthful females in varying skills, Viz computer appreciation, fashion designing, interior decoration and other skills. This is concurrently going on in other centres in Aba and Arochukwu with monthly stipend paid.

On the buildup to the democracy day in 2012, May 28 precisely, in the spacious, Aguiyi Ironsi cenotaph with most of the youths on the terraces, enabled by giant T.V sets for viewers on all corners with funfair as youthful musicians and Nollywood stars participated, the Governor gave out tools, equipment and tricycles upon which he promised that the next edition would be resounding and amazing to all.

Knowing T.A. as a man of action not given to too many promises, the question on many lips were, what date? Wednesday April 24th 2013 provided the answer.

The three phased programme took off with the awesome lecture. For a start, the no-nonsense Governor who keeps all the money, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the key speaker, was on hand at the Okpara Auditorium and delivered his thought provoking speech which should be adopted nationwide as a template for youth empowerment and panacea for restiveness.

According to Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the youth constitute 18% of the world population but African countries under invest on the youth at great consequences such as breeding an unproductive segment who live under the poverty line of two dollars a day. Not only that, they find themselves highly unsecured in jobs, marital affairs, financial statuses and therefore psychologically marginalized. To add insult to injury, this unhappy, ill-equipped segment will metamorphose into parents, guardians and leaders. In an apt reference to Hopenhyan, an established authority, the plight of the unhappy youth and victims may exacerbate intergenerational conflicts when young people perceive a lack of opportunity and meritocracy in a system that favours adults who have less formal education and training but, more wealth, power and job stability. Could this be a reenactment of Karl Maxi’s class struggle? From studies available, the rise in unemployment triggers off an increase in the crime rates and other vices as prevalent in the growth of armed robbery in the Southwest, cross border banditry and terrorism in the North, while in the South-South and South East, kidnapping and youth restiveness and other violent acts preside like a colossus.

He reeled out some government based initiatives past and present, which include the NDE, the 100 Billion Textile Revival Funds, Smedan, PW/WYE-Public Works and Women/Youth Empowerment Scheme. The EDC,-Enterprise Dev Centre, the You Win Project, Niger Delta Amnesty Training Project, and some real but unheard-of projects in the CBN like Initiatives Towards Promoting Youth Empowerment- NIRSAl-Nigerian Incentive-based risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending and many others. Do you know that Airlines Services would have collapsed and jobs lost? Check out the PAIf-Power and Aviation Intervention Fund.

As solutions, he recommended massive job creation, great emphases on technical and vocational Education, provision of social safety nets like the Social Security Act of USA which came into reckoning since 1935, huge investment in agriculture, developing the rural areas to check urban migration, and a change of mentality which prefers white collar jobs as the only source of survival. He greatly advocated that the exuberant nature of the youths should be channeled to production, patronizing the many windows opened by the CBN.

Before the ovation died down after the lecture, it was a massive movement to the Umuahia Township Stadium, even the looming rain was not enough to deter the large numbers. Carefully parked and arranged were cars, buses and painted taxis of all types. If not for the yellow colour branding of the buses and taxis, any undiscerning would have taken the arena to be the Apapa Wharf and the assembly ground of Toyota put together. Those who tried to count the numbers could not complete the exercise due to parallaxes as their gazes were dazed.

In all, the Abia Governor staked 200 vehicles as handouts, seven hundred tricycles and one hundred Laptops.

The question in many minds were: ‘how does the government manage to do all these with ongoing massive constructions in roads and buildings in-spite of the paltry funds?’

His Excellency may have taken seriously the admonition of his namesake, the former American president, Theodore Roosevelt who said “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

If I have the temerity to venture an opinion, the Abia government should as a matter of strict urgency set up a committee to study critically the financial windows opened by the Central Bank many of which are unknown to Abia Youths.

On the other hand, the Abia government ably led by sir T A Orji has not fared badly judging by the recommendations of the CBN oracle. With hindsight and a few examples already mentioned, the agricultural reforms ranging from the rejuvenation of all the Eastern Nigeria farms located in Abia and the Ochendo liberation farms in the 17 LGAs are instructive.

There are various skill acquisition centres private and public. The 4500 selected group from all wards on monthly stipends gulping 65 million naira monthly is akin to the Social Security of USA. Likewise, the numerous equipments already given out. The amnesty scheme where Abia was left out but deftly negotiated by the governor speaks volumes. The bursary and scholarships restituted and the free education in primary and secondary are effected to lure the youth to school and for the parents, any who gets the youth off drugs and crime may have done quite a lot.

This is so great to see that Ariara international market,is taking a new look, these picture can clearly speaks more of what is really happening in Aba.

The advising given by T.A to Igbos in the north is an act of love, many people have been killed in the north in many occasions, now the devils who call them self's Boko Haram is westing lives there in the north.To those who think they are wiser than T.A If you don't want to come back please stay, you will soon be the next big fool in the grave.

On the strength of the findings and recommendations of an Investigation Panel into allegations of breach of the extant Academic Regulations of Abia State University, in the process of the admission and graduation of Kalu, Orji Uzor in the discipline of Government and Public Administration, of Matriculation number: 00/42226, the Senate of Abia State University, at its resumed 69th Extra-Ordinary meeting of Friday 1st March 2013, and by a vote of eighty-eight(88) against three(3) dissenting voices only, approved the cancellation and withdrawal of the Degree result and Certificate awarded to him.
The decision of Senate was based on the following grounds, among others:

The violation of the Academic Regulations of the University on Adimission-by-transfer, which rendered the offer irregular, ab initio.


The non-completion of the mandatory six(6) Semesters(i.e. three academic years of study), before he was awarded a degree of the University. He spent only two semesters in all.


The University Senate maintained that its action, aforesaid, derived from the exercise of its onerous statutory responsibility to guard and maintain, at all times, the Academic Regulations of the University, its hard-earned reputation and the credibility of the Certificates it awards.


Signed
O.E Onuoha
Registrar/Secretary to Senate

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UMUAHIA — ABIA State Government has introduced auto-registration, AutoReg, for the registration of all categories of vehicles in the state.

The introduction of the computerised vehicle registration, according to the government, would help to check corruption in the Board of Internal Revenue which has affected negatively the revenue accruable to the government.

According to the Chairman of Abia State Board of Internal Revenue, BIR, Mr. Udochukwu Ogbonna, the board had also driven away touts from all its offices across the state.

Ogbonna warned members of the public not to patronise touts milling around tax offices soliciting patronage from unsuspecting motorists, saying: “Any person that does so is at his or her risk.”

He said a task force had been constituted to flush out touts in the board’s offices across the state.

According to him, “as I am talking to you, we have many fake motor licence plates we have retrieved from people who have come to renew their vehicle particulars.”

“The new system would assist to identify stolen vehicles. If a car that is registered in Abia State is stolen and taken to any of the state that has AutoReg, as the engine and chasis numbers are logged into the system, it will show that the car has been registered before.”

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/02/abia-begins-computerised-vehicle-registration/#sthash.oa3A0SGG.dpuf

T.A ORJI :I am determined to light up our major cities starting with Umuahia the capital city, to include also the rural areas. Just as we are building our legacy projects, so we are lighting up and energizing Abia State to improve the lives of residents while lighting up dark spots.

SOME STREETLIGHT PROJECTS EXECUTED BY GOVERNOR T.A. ORJI OF ABIA STATE

1. Okpara Square through Ossah Express to Abia Tower

2. Aba Road to Old Umuahia Railway Crossing

3. Ibiam Road

4. Library Avenue

5. First Bank through Good-Shed to Okpara Square

6. Bende Road

7. Finbarr’s Road

8. Umuwaya Road

9. Azikiwe Road

10. BCA Road

11. House of Assembly Road Ochendo By-Pass Road

12. Ochendo By-Pass Road

13. Ndume Otuka Road

14. Ikotekpene Road to Ahia-eke

15. Winners Chapel Road

16. Ministry of Justice Road

17. Lagos Street

18. Warri Street

19. Ojike Street

20. Enugu Road

21. School Road

22. Road 3, Low Cost Housing Estate

23. Commissioner’s Quarters Road

24. Uzuakoli Road

25. Umuwaya Road

26. Item Street



ELECTRICITY PROJECTS

1. The State Government in collaboration with the Federal Government executed the 2 by 30mvA 132/33KV injection sub-station at Ohiya.

2. Abia State Government successfully executed 5 No.33KV High Tension Feeder lines radiating from the Ohiya injection sub-station to the underlisted communities.

a. Afara

b. Ubakala

c. Nkwoegwu

d. Ntigha

e. Umungwa

3. The State Government in collaboration with the Federal Government has completed the NIPP thermal plant up to 80%.

4. The State Government has allocated over 800 distribution transformers to deserving commun