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I have always avoided too much conversation in this thread because I found out that many of you guys are really emotional and will keep being emotional until you understand that the things you feel its important are really not important. There are many times igbos from the southeast have denied being igbo in the presence of challenge or the presence of goodies to be shared. I have met quite a number of them in my life pursuits. We try to singe out the ones along the fringes of our territory so as to look for who to chastise and feel good when the real issues that we are supposed to be discussing is not being discussed.

Ikwerre, anioma, cross river, benue or kogi igbos have not in any specific way stopped you all from thinking of the best ways to develop our territory. The total internally generated revenue of all the southeast states does not even amount up to 100billion naira in a year and you are looking for who is igbo and who is not. I feel you guys do not have anything really disturbing your sleeps that is why you all yapping about this for over 5pages now. You find yourself so stuck in online groups and meaningless conferences that has not yielded a fruit for the whole of igboland.

I have always said it while I was using the username vickjames. We will continue to be neglected until we take the stand of being too important to be neglected. The igbos have continued to drop politically, economically and socially after 2007. We have had series of stupid leaders and agitators who could have used the advantage of the fathers of the 50s, 60s, 80s and 90s have built. Even with the way they had to be the bad guys for us to be good, they have tried to create wealth and spread wealth and tradition within those years but we have all spoilt it. No igbo man today is respected. Not even the so-called ohaneze ndigbo president. But our problem is ika, ogbia and the rest.

I tell you all this day and mark it, they do not have anywhere to go except eastwards. They held their stand then and now because you have not given them a better option. What has the igbo people brought to the table that will make other people scramble for their help? Nothing!

A child will one day disown his father when the father fails to be the father he is supposed to be. If you think you deserve to be treated better, then be better. All these emotional rants goes to show that many of you are still not understanding that in this same 80s, China was not respected and no one wants to be associated with the country who's population was about 900 million at the time but with an economy of 300billion dollars. But now, everybody wants to be identified with the chinese nation because they offered something. We need to lead and let our brothers at the fringes of our territory look inward and not outwards. We need to start developing and stop messing around because in the next few years, you will not want to be termed igbo too if you do nothing about the underdevelopment in the region and the lack of jobs there too.

I am saying this for you all to understand, I have been with other ethnic groups in this country and I have even travelled round. The minorities in the north will still want to be northerners than be an easterner because they control their territory and the minorities in the southsouth and north central will want to ally with the west because they have something to offer too. Now, we igbo have nothing to give out but we go there to collect from them.

I say continue wailing when your job is left undone and be waiting for solidarity.

mightguy:
story. Stop showing us videos. Rotimi Amaechi nko?... They say this Today. Tomorrow they say another thing..

bros kindly back off if you do not have anything further to say. Its very helpful

aniomafirstson:
I agree with you
the staunch Igbo ones are all old

uti nwachukwu is old
faze is old
buchi is old
bovi is old
wizzboy is old
tinie tempah is old
even lynxx is so old he can't see again

infact the staunch Igbo ones are all above 80

Are you saying bovi is anioma?

I am trying to send mail to the owner of this forum so as to create another supermod who will look into this issue of spoiling this glorious thread. I think many of you do not understand the enormity of problems you are creating for us. If you check run some google search now and info by the hour, you will see that some of the things we are saying keep coming up when search is carried out.

All of us can list the names of the bad eggs and mail it to the owner of the site. He can make mynd44 to always come in handy when tagged with some specific usernames. please let us help our region with better pictures because it is highly absurd seeing bad pictures. It is really spoiling my evening.

Xander85:
This is the render of the building being constructed in the int'l market Abakaliki...pic is on page 105.

What is the purpose of this structure?

All I can say at this moment is that I am proud of Ebonyi state. This state is getting it right by the day. This is just a wonderful job. I am a certified critic but this one I cannot criticize this.

Good job my brothers, dont look for the money but look for the future.

Sprumbabafather:
even within a family of same mum and dad, opinions must differ. But when you get a brother who will always give bad advice to all the family and support strangers against his family every time, even when his family is right, better send him to do a new DNA, he may have been switched with another newborn unknowingly in the maternity ward when he was born.

The fact that we are in a faceless forum does not give you the effrontery to insult me like this. How dare you insinuate such statement about me? Because I do not have rash view about life like doesnt make me less who I am. In fact, if you had been close to me, I would have landed you a big slap. Sometimes you people just come online to insult people you do not even know!

So i should be as brash as you are so that we can all be called igbo. Because it is the same parent that bore us and we have faced the same experience since child birth. How can you be spewing such nonsense from your mouth? Do you sound educated at all? If all of us act and behave the same, you will still call us humans and not robots? Even in network, no two networks behave as one not to talk of humans. You have really reduced the respect I have for some of you in this thread. Every small thing, he is not igbo. Come out with your yoruba identity always. Very shallow thinking!

Ofodirinwa:
I know you're not Igbo because you seem to believe the most common way for someone to acquire land is the government dashing it to them lol.

Mr man, you better go and sleep. I am not talking about government but people. Stop all these stupidity about being igbo and not being igbo. What sort of nonsense talk is this?

OGUTA LAKE

This is one of the most important water body in the whole of southeast. It is presently located in Imo state, Nigeria. The lake means so many things to so many people. For some it serves as mode of transportation to neighboring villages, while to some, it serves as a fishing ground. The state government has announced the construction of a resort that will serve as a tourist attraction in the state. The resort will not only be the most important resort in the region but it will be a driver of the economy in the state because it is meant to attract foreign nationals into the state.

We can applaud the state government for delving into this beautiful sector called tourism and making oguta lake the eye of imo state but we cannot help but cry out in absurdity that shoddiness of the job done in the resort. The resort when finished will at best be another 2-star hotel. The lack of architectural ingenuity in the project can be seen from afar. The lack of engineering dexterity is just everywhere. How can such a beautiful project be rendered in such an abysmal fashion? Are we trying to go back to the pre-colonial era or we are trying to catapult our economy forward. We can take a look at resorts around the country, Africa and the world in general. Resorts tend to generate billions of dollars for the government if its well Rochas see this project as if he is solving a major problem in the east by taking his time and making the resort worth it.

christopher123:
What level playing field ? I have worked in Lagos and I know what it means to get recognition as an igvi in companies ....I know what it means to conduct board meeting in yoriba language in a multi tribal working environment, I know what it means to have encountered the term we are not renting to an Igbo person....I know what it means to have heard Omo Ibo you get money funmi owo jhoooor


Bros please redifine the level olayig thing again

I do not want to go further in this argument so that it will not seem that i am supporting these people more than my people. We are relaxing too much under the notion that we are being strangulated and not making good use of opportunities before us. Let us forget these places and focus on our homes and let it work for us. We have vast opportunities but we are not even doing anything to our own advantage. I am not just happy at all.

Even if you want to go tribal, buy only ibeto to grow ibeto; buy innoson to grow innoson. atleast if it enters the subconscious of every igbo man that ibeto cement is the best in the world, they will normally tend towards it. we are not working to rebrand the image of our products in the national market. So in essence, if we want to thrive in our space, let us make our products the priority. We cant lose in our turf too.

Xander85:
This is the kind of fun tourists could be having on the Lake.

This is exactly what came to my mind. not that block industry.

arinzeejikonye:
More,
What are your thoughts?

One of the few tourist waters in the east. We are not making good use of it. We should be building monuments here and not another block industry. I had a better design for this place.

vanbonattel:
Do you believe business competition in Nigeria is fair? Waiting for your analysis.

Ibeto suppose to have the unfair advantage in the east because that is his home. If he cannot dominate the market of the east and relegate other cements into the background, then its not dangote nor Nigeria's fault but ibetos. He should be able to dominate the south south and southeast easily without any strong competition from any of these competitors.

vanbonattel:
your level of thinking is very low. Yes I remember the yoruba man who came out online to demarket innoson motors because of a small fault in his car, of course it went viral and many people condemned him.
we are all witnesses to how yorubas daily curse aba made products as fake and substandard, calling anything fake as igbomade stuff. Igbo teaders are also highly patronized just because no other tribe are selling those stuff, not because the buyers love igbo people. Igbos are always targeted for wherw they come from, and all types of regulations aimed against them.

have you been to the ports and seen how hausa and yoruba customs people treat goods imported into Nigeria? They delay, extort, humiliate and seize any goods knowing the identity of the owners. Count that as love too? if there is anyway these people can substitute all those products, they will gladly refuse all igbo products, Fashola even deported ignos from Lagos, how many markets built by igbos has been completely demolished by LASG?

Only a non Igboman will say Igbos are not hated in every part of Nigeria. No, let an Igbo man lead his cattle to the north to sell, him and the cattle will be burnt to ashes, yet we allow northerners trample on our crops here?

Bros, igbo people are being marginalized politically but we should not downplay the fact that there are more level playing ground given to the igbos in some places in the country. Infact, many places in the north were ceded to the igbos just allow them have places to stay and do business. Paniso in kano is one of them, while we keep building our minds that we cant move because of northerners, they are not as strong as we place them. Just do your thing and stop thinking even the hausa beggars are the ones holding us too.

vanbonattel:
Show me just one south westerner or northerner that has ever bought Innoson cars?

Tribalism apart, I have seen 3. I mean northerners and they are not politicians.

OMANBALA1:
Nwokem, stop being emotional and stop and think for a second. Lets get one thing straight...Igbos are conquered people in Nigeria and sooner you all come to terms with that the quicker you will find a solution to fix your status. I am not an armchair critic, I call things what they are but human hates hearing the truth especially when it doesnt favor them. The Igbo doesnt need the validation of Buhari nor did they need to produce a President before they can gain respect. You people are obsessed with the way people look and perceive you that is your problem. Lets start with your governors because they are really the one that has the power to do anything. Charity begins at home. Is Buhari stopping you state governor from initializing industrial revolution, is he stopping you from building private power projects that can power your industries and neighborhood, did he stop your ignorant masses from coming out en masse to vote and pull millions of vote and thereby sending a serious message to the so called "northern tormentors"? Did Buhari stop Coscharis, Nestoil , Ibeto, Emeka Offor , Godwin Maduka and Anambra state government from mobilizing and invest massively into power projects ? Did Buhari stop your state governor from planting a million IROKO TREE a year. Get the ffuckk outa here dumbass nnigga always looking for somebody to blame for his problems.

Seriously, if you want to relay your points, stop being abusive. No one is a kid here and some of us are fathers in our own right. Please kindly tame your words.

Curlieweed:
Thanks. This has always been my exact thoughts. The key challenge will be how to go about this objective. The financial architecture shouldn’t be too difficult but getting people who combine integrity with wide acceptance will be key.

While I support your APGA idea, I think that waiting until all the 5 states are under one political umbrella before starting will only encourage opportunities for sabotage. I think a grassroots anchored approach might be better. The old Igbo Union made outstanding use of town unions.

Yes, igbo unions are always going to be there. The plan is more complex than what is been written here. We need real coup plotters to remove those already in power. For us to engage in this kind of coup, we need to ally ourselves with IPOB (because of its wide acceptance) and make its members join the APGA party and with membership cards. This will give us the advantage of numbers in winning the primaries, at first, then we can also infiltrate the locals easily through their teeming youths and grassroot mobility.

Why do we need the political class?

1. We need them to play to our tune and push the igbo agenda well. So that policies that will bring the necessary development to igboland will be achieved without the positions.

2. We need people to bargain for us during election period. Like 2019 is coming, the igbo people have no say in the working of things during the elections. Even if Buhari is bad, if we does our bidding, he isnt bad to us then. We need real deals on the table and not promises. If we give 10million votes, these are the things you will do for igboland. And to that effect we give him the votes and get what we want while the organisation I mentioned earlier will continue on its own path.

3. We need their constituency allowance and some parts of their benefits for us to get more funds in delivering projects. This will be rule of the new APGA. You either sign it as an agreement or you lose your voting power. Senators and rep members will not be constructing roads with low
quality. They will not be gifting people stoves and lamps anymore, the monies will be channeled to real projects and more people will gain from them.

Moreover, the political party will only take care of the political class, but other citizens will fall under the igbo unions, religious and community organizations. We will have to generate funds from everywhere and anywhere possible. So that we can generate the required amounts to deliver great projects and systems that will push us forward.

Cjrane2:
Ndigbo don't need a secret army.At least not now. We might need a military wing of the struggle if Buhari type individuals continue their unprovoked killing of Ndigbo in Igboland calling it Python dance or whatever. But if we plan a military response through guerrilla means, we must dot thoroughly plan every inch of the struggle because we cannot afford to lose it. Right now, i still believe it is not necessary because Buhari simply wants to lure us in that direction too soon before we are ready by provocatively carrying out military operations in the zone even in peaceful periods.

All Igbo needs for now is think how to develop their region without begging the Federal Government. The minute you achieve the mental emancipation of knowing projects that will change lives of our people and figure how to raise the funds and implement them without much government interference, then you have truly overcome.

Ndigbo both in Nigeria and diaspora need to unite and begin to pool resources together for key projects. Our inability to mobilize & organize is hurting us badly. We still have Igbo stuck in the primitive ideology that they must be Chairman of every gathering. That is why the best way to mobilize is through town unions and kporakpo type organizations which are part of a greater umbrella Igbo organization. That way, the cravings of some people to be chairmen of their town unions or state kporakpo union will be achieved, while the national Igbo body still focus on its vision and mission of helping the Governments in the region prioritize and harness funding for key infrastructural projects.

I stated this as early as 2015 when I saw the need to move on without Nigeria's federal government allocation and the meagre IGR we generate. Igboland needs solid infrastructures and system that will catapult us to the next 50years within the next 10 years. Without doing these we will keep managing the situation and not gaining anything from this country.

For igboland to develop, it is going to be all-hands-on-deck kind of development. Leaving the development for the government officials who think about the short term and not the long term will always make us go back to square one after every eight years. We need to create a body whose sole intention is to develop infrastructures and systems that will build the different sectors of the economy in Nigeria. Since the body wont be looking at the next election, they will be more focused in achieving their aims rather than gaining so much money from the system.

Our minds are faster than our actions. We need to unify behind one party. Let igboland be synonymous to APGA and we the youths and younger generations, infiltrate their ranks and make our own the people leading us. Let us forget federal politics and focus on the local things we can achieve.

selemempe:
i read ur 1st post and i read this one.

I know wat u mean.

Igbos are locating their factories outside igboland and our politicians have done little to develop igboland.

The truth is that people will start business where they will make more money...and many businesses differ. As many igbos are locating their business outside, many are also locating theirs inside igboland. We can only keep shouting and hope more igbos will locate their business in igboland.

As for biafra. I believe getting biafra now or weneva is very good. So long as we get igboland complete. If we do, then we are self sufficient. We have seaport in p.h. we have many power plants in igboland...one is located in oji river enugu..my state.

As for people losing their businesses...dont forget that globacom and many yoruba owned banks and businesses are in igboland. Do u think nigerian govt wont want to protect those businesses? It would be a quid pro quo something. As for 10 million igbos relocating..we dont know for sure that there are up to 10million igbos living outside igboland...forget naija statistics...but remember a large number of igbos in diaspora return every xmas. We havent run out of land to accomodate them yet. Biafra or igbo nationhood is still a good policy

The number of igbos living outside igboland might even surpass the number living inside it.

2019 is around the corner, should we vote haphazardly or we should vote just one political party and let others defect into the party the region accepts as its own. With the way we keep defecting for personal reasons, I find it difficult to know the real plan of igbos in this country. The southeast caucus in the house of assembly seems to be the weakest in the red chamber. There has never been a time they pushed something into fruition. They always feign ignorance after the whole episode has been dissected in the social media.

We are lacking visionary leaders in the region and most importantly, people who are ready to die for the people. They are all thieves.

hammer6F:
If Lebaran Maku from Nasarawa and a former Minister can take APGA membership this seriously, how much more Ndiigbo?

I think our problem is misseducation and we really need reorientation.

The mind appears lost without origin or destination.

We either sit up or continue to fall victim to those we are better than.

We seem not to understand the way the west fought for power that they are enjoying at the moment, even though they made a mistake in making the northerner president but their ability to change the scores is really a thing to admire.

hammer6F:
Will the rigging allow APGA win all the states in South East?

Do you think Okorocha won his second term?

APGA was a gift from Ojukwu to Ndiigbo but lacking in vision we dont know wat to do with it.

I find it funny the way Abuja can play with Igbo political elite as if they were children and intimidate them.

By now, I expect the entire east to be APGA and very organised.

If we can mobilize from the rural areas to the urban; the illiterates to the literates; the old and the young; the women and the children; the men and the youths. We should make it a thing of a must that Okuko is the only party in the east. We will make a head way in holding these politicians to ransom. They will have to sign agreements that they must follow to the letter or they will be impeached or recalled within 3months of defaulting. It will also make it easier for us that have better mindset about the region to easily infiltrates the ranks of the party.

The various parties in the region is making harmonization of dreams difficult. Just 5 states and 3 political parties. How will they come into an agreement about anything? They different parties and those parties have different ideologies and goals. At this time of our lives we need a unified front to fight off these evils prevailing in our region. Even if we do not make it to the presidency, the different political parties will have to come to an agreement with us before they can win any election in the country. Atleast we will be sure that we will be getting something from the centre instead of someone in the centre.

If we can be patient and vote just APGA in all the different southeastern states both state house and federal house and national assembly. We will be able to infiltrate the political ranks through this medium. If we take over the political powers of the east, we are getting close towards getting what we want.

Sorry if I might derail this thread a bit. For those of you staying withing the south south and southeast region, please help me with these answers:

How much is transport fare for these routes and what is the density of movement between these routes:

1. Portharcourt - Onitsha, Onitsha - Portharcourt.

2. Asaba - Portharcourt, Portharcourt - Asaba

3. Aba - Portharcourt, Portharcourt - Aba

4. Onitsha - Aba, Aba - Onitsha

5. Owerri - Asaba, Asaba - Owerri

6. Portharcourt - Enugu, Enugu - Portharcourt

Please give me the price range for transport within these routes, the safety of the roads, the distance and the density of movement in these routes.

Udo8:
Your people are not doing enough to show that we're welcome.
I have stayed in Lagos, where I encounter my Igbo brothers from the 5 Eastern states tell them that I'm Igbo nd they'll tell me that I'm not.
I currently school in Awka and the same thing is the case.
The gap between us is widening and you guys are doing nothing about it.
It's heartbreaking though, as it is not a good development.

You are igbo and we are trying our best to make the non-conformist amongst us to reconsider their position. We are igbo first before being Nigerians.

The problem we are facing in this country as igbos are our politicians. There is no consensus on a particular purpose in which they are in the upper chamber. I think most of them go there for their own personal pursuits. Nothing has ever come to our favour because they fought for it even when they were all in PDP. I feel we have been getting it wrong with the ways we have been voting these people into places of power.

I have come to a conclusion that the solution to this problem that we vote a particular party which identifies with the igbo struggle. Even if we do not become the president of this country, at least we will have people fighting for our quota in the red chamber. For example, if we all come to a consensus that southeast and other igbo areas in the south south are APGA areas, then we will give them template of what we want from them every 4years and if they do not perform, they are either recalled or impeached immediately and no political undertone will be read to it.

Furthermore, we can also use the party to bargain development in the east rather than fight for positions for igbos. For example, if we are to support APC, there will be written agreement that some projects will have to be constructed in the east and some policies to enable igbo businesses and people thrive in this country will come into fore.

PDP and APC will always push us into the sideline if we keep washing their panties in the parties. We should stick to our guns and get whatever crumbs we can get from this union, instead of crying foul every four years.

nnamdijonathan:
I noticed that from the beginning of this trend to this very point, everybody has been talking about creating the enabling environment for business to grow in Igboland and overtake other parts of Nigeria but the truth is, no matter how you guys plan and create the enabling environment, Lagos and Ogun will continue to be the first choice destinations to build factories by Foreigners. Have u ever travelled out of Nigeria and ask the citizens of that country if they know Enugu or Awka etc? If a foreign investor wants to invest in Nigeria, what's the first that comes to mind? The answer is Lagos. If there is going to be an international conference between countries in Nigeria, which state will the conference be held? The same Lagos. Haven't you noticed that Anambra, Enugu, Abia, Kaduna and Kano all depend largely on indigenous industries unlike Lagos that combines a massive number of indigenous and foreign industries.
The Shell company in Rivers state just announced that it is moving its operations from Rivers state to the oil producing area of Lagos which will lead to a drop in Rivers state's IGR and the sack of over 5000 workers, does it mean that Rivers state is not conducive enough for business? Oil companies have placed their oil processing plants in the calm Niger delta since 1958 but located their head quarters in the over crowed Lagos, does it mean that ND is not good for locating a head quarter? If crude oil is found in large quantities in Lagos and Ogun states tomorrow, all the oil companies in ND will relocate their oil companies immediately.
I know will people may not understand where I am heading to but, you must understand that Lagos has overshadowed the entire country by a wide margin and no matter how stressful, chaotic, dirty, disarranged and disorganized Lagos is, Foreigners will still consider investing in Lagos before thinking of other places. When 100 companies come into Nigeria, 80 will move to Lagos-Ogun axis while the rest of the country gets to share the remaining 20. Why exactly are things happening like that even with the high taxation in Lagos? Have u noticed that our very own Obi Jackson has his Nestoil head quarter in Lagos instead of Warri or Port Harcourt where he operates? Erisco Tomato is the largest tomato processing plant in West Africa and it owned by an Nnewi man but it is located in Ikeja, Lagos. Our only hope in Igboland are our indigenous industries but most of them are also in Lagos-Ogun axis from Seplat to Nestoil, Beloxxi, Emzor, Green life pharmaceutical, Yudalah online store, May and baker, Erisco tomato, film house cinemas, zinox computers, Choscaris ford vehicles assemble plant, ABC industries in fact, almost 90% of all our major and famous industries are in Lagos-Ogun axis.
How can we stop this nonsense because its beginning to look spiritual?

We give too much credence to these places because we thought these places are bigger than what they truly are. Yes Lagos is the business epicenter of Nigeria but it is only because other regions are dead. Southeast is better positioned than lagos when it comes to reaching consumers at a speedy rate. If we develop our economic potentials well enough, we can reach the north central, south south and the north east faster than products coming from Lagos. We can provide services for over 100million nigerians than what Lagos is doing.

With the advent of non-conventional media, the lagos-ibadan expressway media has lost much of its strength because different people can air the true nature of what is happening in every region. The only thing we need to keep doing is to rebrand igboland. Build systems and structures that can spurn economic growth, you will see investors trooping in. Ordinary SWOT analysis will always show you the strength of southeast over many regions in the country. We just need to work on our advantage and everyone will love spending time in the east.

Xander85:
Are you sure of the amount....about 2 trillion naira? That's a couple of billions of dollars oh!

Looking at the situation from a pragmatic and realistic angle; where will the money come from? They've not paid the Ogonis' the $1 Billion they promised them, and you (a 'nyamiri') is rubbing your hands with glee in expectation of collecting billions of dollars from Rivers and the federal gov't? Have you also factored in the person we have as president at the moment? Assuming the money was available, you think a Buhari will sign off giving Abia up to $5 Billion so it can become developed and leave Katsina behind? Bros, get real biko.

If the case was resolved in Abias' favour, my question then is: judging from the amount they were awarded and the oil wells returned back to them, how come they're not getting a much higher derivation payment? All things considered, shouldn't they be receiving what say Akwa Ibom is getting?

I saw the news in 2016 and no one has ever talked about it since then.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/orji-kalus-claim-42-oil-wells-false-consultant/

InvertedHammer:
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It is better witnessed than told.

Go to Owerri and drive around the city. I wrote about it before. I couldn't wait to get out unlike the Owerri I knew. The eyesore was heartbreaking.

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If we channel the right energy in building roads and making structures conform to the best form. We will have the best livable environment in the country. I wish a master plan is available for any land developer to view before constructing homes, so that everyone will follow a particular code and make building roads easy.

The question now remains, should we wait for successive governments to fail us before we can get these things right? Can private individuals create a fund which can be channeled into building inner city roads so that we can reduce the load on government and still get the kind of development we need?

Afam4eva:
I have called out Rochas Okorocha for his many misdeeds buut it has to be said that apart from Dee Sam Mbakwe, no other Imo state governor, not Udenwa, not Ohakim comes close to him. He has bested them but i still don't think we should use him as a standard in Imo state.

I actually don't get excited whenever i exit the major roads in Owerri and enter the inner streets. Roads are not existent. Even in areas with very good structures have very bad roads. This has made me think that what a lot of Governors actually is cosmetic surgery on the outside to deceive people.

Many state governors are guilty of this. They build the major roads and let the inner roads rotten. If governors can spare 5percent of the state's resources to build inner roads we will not have these problems.

Moreover, if they find out that building inner roads might be cumbersome for them, they can tax the communities to generate atleast few millions to execute such projects.

InvertedHammer:
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I passed theough Owerri in June 2018 (2 months ago). It is an understatement to stay that I was disgusted. Rochas set Owerri back by decades. To get the city back on track will take at least another ten years. Don't let the selective pictures of buildings fo0l you. The better experience will be to drive around the city to witness the decay and total collapse of a small city. It gets worse if you come from an organized city like Enugu. The city of Owerri is a total mess.

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Really, do you have pictures?

No one is even talking about the 2trillion naira being owed to Abia state government by rivers state and the federal government due to oil fields which belonged to abia that was ceded to rivers state.

That money alone can change the fortune of the state.