₦airaland Forum

eaglechild:
I do not advocate for neglect on either side.
I'm just talking about priorities.
I sincerely think the flaunting of the rural renaissance by Ugwuanyi is an offshoot of the outcry of poor maintenance of the capital which is glaring.
His ready excuse is "it is time for rural areas".
Yet he hasn't done any better in the rural areas.

Enugu to Portharcourt is not even up to 250km, and the FG has been struggling with it ( yes it is a trunk a dual carriage), where are the phantom 250km rural roads?

Seeing they say is believing, this is a fraction of the 250km rural roads

1. 26.665 kilo Ukpabi-Nimbo-Ugbene Ajima-Eziani road in Uzo-Uwani Local Government
2. 22Km Neke-Mbu-Ogbodu Aba-Obollo Etiti road in Udenu and Isi Uzo LGA
3. Ozidem-Nrobo-Abbi-Nimbo in Uzo Uwani
4. Abor Road In Udi Local Government
5. Egede Awhum Road in Udi Local Government
6. St Mary Ngwo - Nsude Road in Udi Local government
7. Ugwuoba- Nkwere Inyi Road Oji River
8. UNTH- Agu-Ndiagu- Uwuaniagu- Obe Amurri Road
9. Ikoko- Amagu- Ajuona- Akabuisi Obimo Nsukka Local government
10. Adani- Asaba- Igga Ojjor Road Uzo Uwani local government
11. 49km Ohom Orba junction – Imilike Ani – Ezimo Uno – Ezimo Agu – Imilike Ogbodu Aba – Obollo Afor Roads also known as Udenu Ring Road
12. Udi station- Ibuzo Amokwe – Amokwe Station in Udi LGA
13. St Mary’s Catholic Church Ukehe- Afia Afor- Umuoka Junction in Igbo Etiti
14. Eha Alumona- Eha Ndiagu- Mbu Road In Nsukka Local government

okeyglm:
Enugu doesn't begin and End in Nsukka. last time I checked Enugu north senatorial zone is only made up 6 lga. sullivan even though performed more in the city never relegated the rural part. but gburugburu not only underperforming in the city but also in rural areas. besides this is our State when you guys finishes embezzling funds meant for development of our state everyone will run to onitsha, Lagos , Abuja. when was the last time Enugu state witness a establishment of gigantic industry. last time I check it's in ama brewery. make I stop. las las we all get sense

What i expected from you was to reply me with the list of projects done by Sullivan and Chimaroke in Nsukka LGA so that we can compare with the list i posted.

I will try as much as possible to get the list of projects he has executed in each of the 17 LGA, i believe it will give us a better view so that we can compare based on figures and facts and not on emotions.

okeyglm:
I want you to prove me wrong by showcasing projects initiated and completed by ugwuani in each LGA.

First, I don't work for the government, I am just a fan of his aggressive rural drive. Below is the list of project i have tracked in Nsukka LGA, there are others i may not know of.

NSUKKA LOCAL GOVERNMENT:
1. Opi- Nsukka Dual Carriage Road Completed
2. Enugu State Secretariat Annex Nsukka Ongoing
3. Worker Estate Ede Oballa Completed
4. Rehabilitation of Nsukka General Hospital Nsukka
5. Construction of Nsukka Mini Stadium Nsukka Ongoing
6. Completion of a Sub power station Nsukka Completed
7. Eha Alumona ring road linking 8 communities Ongoing
8. Upgrade of Nsukka School of Health Nsukka Completed
9. Construction of Low Cost Estate at Opi Agu Ongoing
10. Onuiyi Junction-Amobi Street-MCC Road Nsukka Ongoing
11. New Anglican Road – Obechara Road junction, Nsukka Completed
12. Nsukka Infectious Disease/Isolation Center Nsukka Completed
13. Reconstruction of Ikenga Hotel Nsukka
14. Umuezebi- Nru Junction- University Gate Nsukka, Completed
15. Obechara Road Junction – Umuakashi Mechanic Village – Ikenga Hotel Junction. Completed
16. Post Office Roundabout – Odenigbo Roundabout- Ogurugu Road – Ikenga Hotel Junction Completed.
17. Other Internal Roads in Nsukka:
a. Adudele street,
b. Odenigbo road,
c. St Theresa Road,
d. Oloto street,
e. Justica Eze Streeet,
e. Aku Road Completed
18. Reconstruction and Equipping of many Primary and Secondary Schools in the LGA
19. Construction of High Court Complexes with Judges Quarters in Nsukka GRA. Completed .

eaglechild:
Rural revolution
Please let us keep sycophancy at bay.
It is degrading to human character.
If we ever wish to progress as a people we must learn to be objective.
"Tiny Enugu city" accounts for 1 out of 4 of the state's population and perhaps over 80% of the state's tax income revenue, so it should always have priority.
That is the reality of the state.

The reason why Enugu city alone account for 80% of our IGR is because successive administrations abandoned the rural areas and focused on the city center.

We must invest aggressively in the rural areas so that light industries can spring up in these places thereby creating jobs and increasing the state revenue.

With over 250km of rural roads currently ongoing in various parts of the state, ugwuanyi is poised to give the rural dwellers a sense of belonging.

The Aji-Umuogboagu Road, in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, delivered by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi's administration, in line with its sustained rural development drive.

Enugu State Judiciary Headquarters complex, at the Independence Layout, Enugu, being renovated by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s administration.

Afam4eva:
The fat idiot has destroyed Enugu.

Hatred is bad for your health

Rgade:
Rubbish,so projects failing immediately after construction and others failing while still under construction should now be overlooked because the rest didn't fail as well? Let them all collapse now
Has this stuff happened in Enugu before?
Is there any serious state in Nigeria where this stuff is happening.
You might not notice but this village bush man has succeeded in taking Enugu 20 years back.
Now Enugu is one of those backward, unserious states where contracts are awarded to shoddy local contractors, in order to spend as little money as possible,so the governor and his croonies will have enough to pocket.
Ugwuanyi's projects are always substandard shoddy and lacking quality.
If you criticize him for using shoddy contractors, he'll claim to be supporting local contractors.
You're supporting them by letting them build death traps in the name of public infrastructure.
When that Bushman is through with Enugu, you his defenders will realize the quantity of disservice you had done your state,by defending that failure.

Lol, the "Bushman' is spearheading a rural revolution in Enugu state and we are happy with that.

The culture of concentrating 80% of government spending on a tiny Enugu city has ended for good.

Rgade:
T junction-amorji Nike- Emene road.
Milliken hill.
Pedestrian Bridges collapsing while still under construction.
Etc

You could only name two failed projects out of many completed project.

The number of failed projects is insignificant

Rgade:
To be washed away in 3 weeks.
Ugwuanyi oo

How many roads have been washed away in the last 5 years?

Finally

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ENUGU STATE INFECTIOUS DISEASE HOSPITAL ENUGU UNDER CONSTRUCTION

FOREST CRESENT GRA

The ongoing construction of 76 Police Mobile Force Squadron Facility, by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s administration, for the Nigeria Police Force, along Ugwuogo-Nike/Opi-Nsukka road, by Ekwegbe in Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area, reaches advanced stage.

THE PROPOSED ENUGU STATE UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION IHE IN AWGU LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

The present administration is the only administration since 1999 to have sited a tertiary institution in a zone outside of the sitting governor's zone

EKULU PRIMARY SCHOOL ENUGU

PROUDIGBO:
I love the greenery and calmness of the rural areas shown in those pics!

That Adada dam, is it a federal or state project? I do know the federal gov’t, over the past 3 to 4 decades, has cumulatively spent billions of dollars on dams in the north! Why can’t they finish this one in Enugu state....and if the project is the responsibility of the state gov’t, why is this so when dams in the north were initiated, built and managed by the federal gov’t?

It’s game-changers like this that Ugwuanyi should have ensured are completed, not minding whether it’s owned by the state or federal gov’t!

It was awarded by the Federal government. The design was that the federal government will build the dam, treatment plant and Irrigation facilities for Ada Rice Dry season farming, while the state government will lay the water distribution pipes from the dam to Nsukka town

eaglechild:
His predecessor uplifted the city and did 1000x more in the rural areas.
He has no excuse, he simply has performed very poorly.
This thread is a clear testimony.
Just take a look at the disastrous quality of the meagre projects he initiated.
No need putting a lipstick on anything.
The question is if he can redeem his image with the time he has left.

Can you please list the projects his predecessors did in the rural areas and let's compare them with Ugwuanyi 5 years.

ABANDONED ADADA DAM PROJECT IN UZO UWANI.

The 5.6billion naira project was expected to supply water to the University Town of Nsukka as well as neighbouring communities in Uzo Uwani LGA

ABANDONED OGURUGU AIRPORT AND SEA-JETTY (SEA PORT):
TALES OF THE ABANDONED TREASURES & GLORY OF UZO UWANI LGA

Ogurugu, a coastal town which, if it had been handled differently by the succeeding governments, should today be at similar level of development and city awareness with Onitsha Anambra State because of its (Ogurugu) historical connection with the early European (whitemen) traders, the UAC, JOHN HOLT etc who traded in local produce like Palm Oil, Palm kernel, timber logging, fishes etc. All these goods/wares were either produced or brought to OGURUGU port from all over Igbo Nsukka from where they were shipped to Onitsha, Lokoja and outside world.
Today the OGURUGU town is a ghost of it's itself, artifacts of European presence littered the town.
THE OGURUGU AIRPORT
Airport in OGURUGU Uzouwani may sound like story from the space or a fairytale but it's empirically true and real.
It was an Airport said to be awarded by the Military regime of Gen Olusegun Obasanjo. At the airport, we found solid structures in a vast expanse of land. We found the runway, the tarmac, the control stations and other things that make up an Airport or Airstrip with a glaring evidence, that the facility has suffered total abandonment, deterioration and looting.
The most surprising finding we made at the Airport was the conversion of the Aerodrome facility to personal use by the former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Charles UGWU. It was revealed that he was using it for milling and re-bagging of rice, using his Company name, Tara Agro Company Ltd.
In our chat with a community leader named ONWUEME MOSES who happens to be the son of the Eze Ala that donated the land to the Federal Government for the construction of the Airport between 1977 and 1978, we were made to understand that a man named CLEMENT CHINEDU from Imo state claimed that he bought the facility from the Federal Government and sold it to the Fmr. Minister, MR. CHARLES UGWU, the Director of TARA AGRO COMPANY LTD.
We also got privy information that the Fmr Minister doesn't want people to know about the existence of such a facility.
In our interview with one of the Supervisors that worked at the Airport in the 70s, he noted that work stopped at the Airport at the inception of a new government in 1979 and the then civilian government shifted focus away from OGURUGU Airport.

THE OGURUGU SEA-JETTY
Another big modern facility in OGURUGU town that has been abandoned is the Ogurugu inland Sea Port from where Colonialists entered Northern Igbo Land and where the entire Igbo nation in this side of the world traded their goods and transported their agricultural products to the outside world especially, through Onitsha.
We were also shown debris of what is left of the Commercial Bank used by Colonialists and Igbo Traders at the Port for transactions in Ogurugu.
From the facts we gathered, the proper reconstruction of the Sea Jetty and the proper dredging of the Omambala/Mabolo River
was attracted by our Govnor, Rt Hon Ifeanyi UGWUANYI when he was the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Marine and Ports Authority. UGWUANYI ensured that the development of the sea jetty commenced in earnest with some construction on the ground, however, the locals we chatted with, stated that work is no longer going on at the Sea Jetty and that they do not know why such life-saving and sustaining facility should be abandoned

IGGAH OIL FIELDS
Its heart-rending that Oil Fields situated under Iggah Land in Uzo Uwani LGA of Enugu State are today said to be in Anambra State and Anambra State indigenous Oil Company, ORIENT extracting Oil under the Iggah Land

Martini101:
He should just leverage on what Sullivan has achieved by maintaining the already constructed infrastructure, rather than leaving them to decay. Those are places where majority of the populace reside. The People will be pleased
While at it , he can then continue with his rural projects.


It breaks my heart how every Tom, Dick and Harry insult the Governor over simple tasks that would have given him a good name in the eyes of the people.
The level of sabotage by the same people he pays for publicity will make you understand how selfish people have become.

What percentage of Enugu population reside in Enugu City?


Yes, he should maintain existing infrastructure in Enugu City but then developing the rural areas is very important

RECONSTRUTED LOMA LINDA ROAD

NSUKKA GENERAL HOSPITAL UNDERGOING REHABILITATION

Education: Gov. Ugwuanyi approves Bursary for 246 Enugu Law School Students
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has approved the release of the sum of N24,600,000.00 (Twenty-four million, six hundred thousand naira only) to the Enugu State Scholarship and Education Loans Board (ESSELB) for Bursary allowance to 246 students of the state at the Nigeria Law Schools.
A statement by the Executive Secretary of ESSELB, Barr. Levis Uche Abonyi, disclosed that the beneficiary students will get the sum of N100,000 (One hundred thousand naira) each.
Barr. Abonyi stated that those eligible for the offer “must be indigenes of Enugu State and in the Nigerian Law Schools”.
The ESSELB Executive Secretary added that other requirements expected from the would-be beneficiaries include “a valid Admission letter; a valid Law school ID card; a Local Government Area identification letter dully signed by the Scholarship Board staff at their L.G.A and recent passport photograph”.
He said that all applications must be made online through the Board's website www.esselb.en.gov.ng and asked the affected candidates to call the helplines: 09044022730,09045085589,09054915257,07053900572 or visit the office at No 28 Okpara Avenue (old CCB building near EEDC) for application voucher.‎
Enugu State Scholarship Board – Promoting Education through scholarship
“Upload all the above required documents to Enugu State Scholarship Board Portal. Follow us on Facebook – ‘Enugu State Scholarship and Education Loans Board-ESSELB’ for more information on date of screening and presentation of cheques," Barr. Abonyi further said.

The ongoing construction of Umuaji-Umuida Road, in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area, with standard lined drains on both sides, joining the newly constructed Orie Market-Nkwo Ida-Afor Inyire Road Junction.

NIKE LAKE UNDERGOING MASSIVE REHABILITATION

Ojoto Crescent, Trans-Ekulu, Enugu, linking the popular Nike Lake road, through Eze Chime Avenue by Ntasiobi Ndi No N'Afufu Catholic Hospital.

Pictures of 7 units of Type-3 Primary Health Care Centre in[b] Ezeagu[/b], Nkanu East, Igbo-Etiti, Igbo-Eze South, Isi-Uzo, Udenu and Uzo-Uwani Local Government Areas, awarded three weeks ago by the State Executive Council (EXCO).

The 16km erosion ravaged Eha-Ulo/Eha-Etiti/Eha-Ndiagu-Mbu road

The ongoing 8.580km road project linking[b] Ihe with Ogbaku Town in Awgu Local Government Area, [/b]being done under the joint sponsorship of Enugu State Government