₦airaland Forum

mallamseifaldin:
Nigeria is not one... The pics says it all.
I love Ojukwu.


Ojukwu and abacha are both dead, very soon Gowon would join them...
I guess Gowon and abacha were speaking the Fulani language that is why ojukwu backed out.

Mallam Seif al Din.

That's exactly what I observed.
.Oil and water don't mix.

Ojukwu still was far apart from Abacha and Gowon in the picture.

Once apart, ever apart.

sirade:
More of ekeleke dance

Where is this happening?

Beautiful!!!

RareDiamond:

Balkanization of Owerri: Okorocha is a Dreamer
By Nigeria Newspoint -
January 7, 2016

A Nigerian Senior citizen, and a native of Owerri Nshi-Ise, Prince Bob Njemanze on the eve of Christmas in Owerri broke his silence, on the recent development in Imo state following the balkanization of Owerri into five autonomous communities, by the State Governor, Owerri Rochas Okorocha and the selection of their Traditional rulers. Mixed feelings have trailed the action and while some are of the belief that the famous Prince has given his nod to the balkanization, many others hope on him to fight against such Government decision read excerpts!

Q: Given the recent development in Imo state as it affects the balkanization of Owerri, could you please let the Imo people at home and in diaspora know your stand.

Ans: Owerri has not been balkanized. It is a misconception. If anything, Okorocha has lent his weight and credence to the paramount rulership of Njemanze dynasty. Njemanze is not a new creation in rulershsip. The first-, Njemanze Iheanacho received the first colonial master, HOM. Douglas after whom the Douglas Road is named. If I take you through the line of history, Njemanze descendants are through Iheanacho, Okorie, Ekeonunwa, Ikenegbu, Ekwemaraugo and if you have any knowledge of the delineation of streets in Owerri, you can follow this trend into Ikenegbu to Ekeonunwa. Njemanze of Owerri is not a village in Owerri. Incidentally what Rochas has done is lending some official and Government backing to village heads of Owerri and acknowledging them as occupying positions in line with the numerous people, Government has adopted as traditional rulers which is as Boys company played by senior prefect. When you talk about Njemanze and rulership, you should divert your mind to Oba of Benin, Obong of Calabar, Obi of Onitsha, Ooni of Ife and the like. The present day masquerades created by government in the name and guise of traditional rulers are in no way on the same platform with Eze Njemanze.

Q. Why did you say there is no balkanization?
Ans: There have always been village heads in Owerri and these village heads have been with the various families. As at today the village heads of Umuororonjo is Chief TOS Oparaugo – Amawom: where the Eze incidentally is from is Chief Dennis O. Dike, Umuodu-Chief Ikeafuaka Anozie Emeto; Umuoyima, Chief Cyril Ukaegbu. These headships of villages have remained with these families from inception of the clan called Owerri and Njemanze the main Umbrella of rulership in Owerri as Ozuruigbo and as at today the 5th and the 12th descendant of that clan of rulership.

Q. Don’t you think that Government could rely on laws to achieve this in Owerri?
Ans: The issue of laws is a privilege of the House of Assembly and the present day House of Assembly is guided by their quest and demand bordering on greed and property but that does not remove the fact that sitting on the Assembly they are free to make anything they think is law but to sustain it might be an issue. Thereafter, only misguided people might think that what has been done in Owerri has anything to do with the image of position of status of Eze Njemanze as the paramount ruler of Owerri.
Okorocha himself said to me that Eze Njemanze remains a paramount ruler of Owerri. It is easy to misguide or mislead Okorocha for he is a leader who dreams dream and he is in a hurry to leave out his dreams leading to a situation where his emotion can run wild and out of contest with reasons. A leader must never say he was mislead.
If the village Heads of Owerri must be recognized as Eze in line with the present day balkanization of Traditional rulership, it must not be done outside the families that hitherto held the position to avoid variance and acrimony I hear the one nominated as village Head for Umuonyima is a brother in-law to Eze Agunwa Ohiri, the present day Eze Imo. Some of these mis-applications lead to the exhumation of certain sentimental facts that have long been buried for peace and harmony. For the origin of Uba family of Umuoyima is not completely Owerri and this may raise issues that are better buried, Certain positions and appointments must not be determined as patronage.And I say this because I over heard the governor bemoan over losing over 2000 cases and in fact suspended virtually every Director in the Ministry of Justice while not realizing the fact there is appointment of Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice who although is said to be a senior advocate was ill-equipped to run that Ministry. He is placing the blame on every wrong premise. His appointment of his bother was a bane of mismanagement of the cases and wrong advice that created the perception of a Governor who never respected the rule of law. If I were to advise, he should return those directors to their places of work and this time around, appoint a seasoned lawyer to run the affairs of the Ministry of Justice. A similar situation is gradually brewing in Imo State University and by the time the issues come up, they will blow up all those who are behind the Governor for now and lending him uncalled for backing, will leave him a paper tiger. I personally remain grateful to him for restoring the image of the Njemanze dynasty Owerri problem as a family has been domestic.
When the Eze’s palace got burnt, the governor quickly came to rescue the situation but misguided by quest and avarice, the wife of the traditional ruler stopped the contractors believing that her brother Emeka Ihedioha with Goodluck Jonathan will build for her, a paradise on earth, for peace and harmony in his home, the Eze toed this line of taught Okorocha still was not deterred, he offered the Eze accommodation till date in one of the Government comfort zone Guest houses, if he had no regard and respect for the paramount nature of Eze Owerri. He would not have attended any of these purported over 600 Ezes, set their homes ablaze and see if they will not be walking in the streets in search of roof over their heads. Njemanzes have no conflicts with Okorocha. I advise that as he is giving out the Staff of Office to the other four Village Heads; Dike of Amawom on who most of the lands presently occupied by Government and even the ones government is desirous of is also being accorded recognition as Eze. It will be wrong for any one to go to the neigbouring town of Egbu where my brother comes from and think of Eze Umuokfo, Umuanyalu, Mpama, what you have there is Eze Egbu but there will be nothing wrong if Government makes provision of salary and maintenance for the various Village Heads in Egbu and titles them in any form so long as it does not affect the position of Eze Egbu. The issue of Eze Egbu, Eze Owerri is sacrosanct.

http://nigerianewspoint.com/balkanization-owerri-okorocha-dreamer/

As Rochas is always in the news squabbling with Owerri people over land and other issues as above,

can anyone link the name Gov Rochas Okorocha to any other Imo community, or town or local government area where Okorocha was starting, talking about or commissioning any development project - except in Owerri - since Okorocha joined APC?

Next rainy season, the fifth rainy season after Rochas Okorocha contractors scrapped roads and abandoned them in many towns excluding Owerri, flood is most likely to wreck more havoc in these towns.

Our governor Okorocha does not seem to give a sh...t about the plight of people living in these towns. He gets obsessed with his red light city, Owerri.

To make Owerri look like New York overnight is Okorocha's obsession.
He can balkanize Owerri, create more communities and development centres in Owerri to justify his administration's policy of devoting more than 75% of Imo states capital development funds on Owerri alone.

About three months ago, Okorocha's deputy confirmed to Vanguard Media that in four years, Okorocha devoted 75% of his this devevepment projects in Owerri.

Okigwe and Orlu? Money that should have gone to develop Orlu and Okigwe, Gov. Okorocha has been pouring the money on Owerri, sometimes duplicating infrastructure in Owerri, pulling down existing infrastructures in Owerri and replacing them with new ones.


Nigeria's forefathers who created states to enhance even development of every state shall weep over how Imo state has been turned by Okorocha to be only Owerri, more so, since he joined APC.

Move to Orlu and Okigwe, aside the few eye-catching roads Okorocha tried to do in 2012; nothing else since then.

obailala:
My comment was only trying to point out why I think the FG had not broken any court order by 'RE-ARRESTING' kanu and Dasuki. However regarding your comment, I am an Igbo man myself and I do not want to go to any confused new nation which is being brewed by emotionally unstable youths who are angry over election results, hence my very sharp opposition to this Nnamdi Kanu and his madness. A nation cannot be built based on such impulses, only a chaotic contraption can be gotten out of such emotions.

As for your defence of Kanu based on the video evidence, there are countless incriminating videos in circulation besides the one you referred to however I think that matter should bedecided by the courts.

Protest for Biafra restarted during Obasanjo civilian administration, around the time twelve northern Nigeria states adopted the use of Sharia criminal justice system. You don't kniow anything that pushes people for Biafra now. You are like Barca. You either think it's because Ijaw man lost election or that Nyamiri want colonize SS - na lies.
You are not Igbo, if by any chance you are, you are efulefu.

Timbuktou:
You show you have inferior education to Barcanista's even.

Which two judges have Barcanista disagree with? Help us unlearned folk with your superior analysis. Could you please name the court and name of the judge who granted Kanu bail on the charges of treasonable felony.

So you first arrest somebody, frame charges against the person, try the person. Th court discharges and acquitted the person UNCONDITIONALLY,

You refuse to free the person, ignore the courts' unconditional release order, prepare other charges agsinst the person, this time terrorism charges.

Even a child in the kindergarten must tell you that you are not after crime fighting and prevention, but you are playing politics with the judicial system.

Reasonable people keep off this court matter knowing that it's politics at play.

People,

what's the big deal if President Buhari implements the recommendations of the last CONFAB as a way to try to pull the rug off the feet of Nnamdi Kanu?

Only Real Politics and Diplomacy were successful in other countries where issues like secessionist groups or dissenters appeared and were resolved for the good of the country. Not courts or imprisonment or shooting of protesters.

Barca,

Nnamfi Kanu's case is political and symbolic, only fools see it from the face value and provisions of the constitution..

Barca,

People from a thousand miles brain-washed you, told you that your closest neighbour is your foe.


Divided, you and your closest neighbours are weak. The people from thousand miles then preside over your life and the life of your neighbour. They clap for you and tell you that you are very intelligent.

Barca,

What do you think Nnamdi Kanu is struggling for? To either change the constitution or for a separate country.

Good luck Jonathan became president by chance. He and your people were called Ogogoro, clueless. See how he finished.

Good that people like Barca are fast diminishing from the south south.

Barca,
I can remember when you were supporting APC, later turned to PDP, and now....
This shows that you can't easily read and rightly judge situations.

Where is your intelligence Barca? Are you not justifying the clueless and ogogoro drinker your REAL ENEMIES branded you?

What an excuse!! Anti-Rochas group? But there is no election campaign going on. So what could breed some noticable anti-Rochas sentiments in Imo state if the governor is living up to his responsibilities?

centje:
I contacted the same Doctor, who works in IMSUTH, he said they haven't been paid 4 months salary ( inclusive of December salary).

But why has Okorocha decided to persist and persist on an unsolvable dispute he apparently created to continue to withhold salaries of IMSUTH workers?


The hospital no longer admits fresh students.

IMSUTH is as good as dysfunctional in the last four months, but it is the only establishment by Imo state government which brings a Naira into Orlu and environs.

Okorocha came to office, instead of completing the IMSUTH, he invested in building other 27 General Hospitals hoping to equip all of them.

Outside IMSUTH, Okirocha built two diagnostic centres people believe could have increased the profile of IMSUTH.

In four-and-half years and running, Okorocha refused to have a motorable road to lead to IMSUTH.

He destroyed the Orlu town stadium.

He scrapped once passable roads in Orlu and abandoned them for four years running.

He knew it was the turn of Orlu to have Imo state regional water supply built, but quickly cancelled government from supplying pipe borne water to citizens.
Abagworo tells NL people of the few principal roads Okorocha enlarged in Orlu as urbanization in Orlu. He doesn't know what urban development is, perhaps.

That Okorocha has an ax to grind against some unknown people in Orlu is making him punish every body in the town,

as well as strive to close up Orlu town whose name brought him as governor of Imo state.

Iwuanyanwu is usually known to side any government in power.
But this time, he has correctly read the political situation.

APC divided Nigeria as it singled out the old south east region for exploitation and humiliation.

It's only self-centred people from the old south east region that embrace APC.

Chiwude:
Rochas as an Ideato-Orlu man knows the importance of that drainage. His community is a stone throw from Orlu urban and his understanding of the area as well as the effect of Ndi-Ideato being cut off completely from the road made him carry out some constructions within Orlu. Some of the constructions where borne out to mordenize Orlu, while others were to tame the future ecological problem. However, the road constructions of the government are yet to be completed and may be a major reason why the urban drainage system is yet to kick start or so.
But, regardless of the approach taking so far by the IMSG, I think Ndi-Orlu must come together and formally schedule a meeting with Douglas house. Let them sensitize their people on this matter, draw up a conclusion and present it before Rochas. Maybe, and maybe a useful action will be drawn through this part.

Owerri people didn't have to meet before Rochas did the innumerable development projects, including underground drainage projects Rochas did in Owerri.
So Orlu people don't have to meet to ask Rochas Okorocha to do what he was elected to do.

Repeat: money spent by Okorocha government to build just one side of his many drainage systems in Owerri - like Orlu road in Owerri - is enough to complete the Orlu urban drainage project.

If Okorocha continues to ignore the completion of the urban drainage project and coat the scratched roads in Orlu, and people finally rise against him, it may be another story altogether. Emperors rise and fall.

ENUF SAID.

Chiwude:
Mandax complains a lot we agree, but please don't fault him when he complains about the Orlu drainage project, because the ecological challenge the town is faced with is real and should be talked about. My only anger with him, is his continuous whinning on the pages of nairaland rather than get to the appropriate quarters to seek solution.
When you say Orlu lacks nearby rivers to carryout out an ecological project I laugh. Orlu is not lacking one bit in flowing rivers. Many nearby rivers exist to channel any drainage activity irrespective of the magnitude. I know of one river at Mgbee connecting Orlu with Ideato. There is also the Njaba river and Iyi Idemili another alternative source which can be look into for a massive project. However the problem is not with executing the project, the problem is the political will power to do it. Successive governments of Imo state have turned their ears away from the drainage project. And Orlu sons too should also be blamed for keeping mute when Udenwa was Governor and even now Rochas is wielding the seat of authority. If not for Mandax who comes here to whine, you hardly hear of a serious grassroot push by Orlu people.
The buck now lies on every Orlu sons and daughters both home and diaspora to do something about this rather than allow it rest squarely on government shoulders. They wear the shoe and knows where it pinches. To start with, there can form a body to contact international donor agencies that would partner with either the federal or state government to finance the drainage project.
NB: Orlu is not the only town in Imo or the south east faced with that problem. Infact every town that sits on top of a hill is also facing the same challenge.

Chiwude,

People of means in Orlu have been pleading with Gov. Okorocha to complete this drainage project.
People from Ideato are worried, because in one way or the other, it affects Ideato people. Even the Archdiocese of Owerri; the risk of St. Joseph's Catholic church Umuna caving in with worshippers inside moves every normal person.

There is no person in Orlu that is not aware and troubled by the menace from this uncompleted urban drainage project here, and they are aware that it's the responsibility of Imo state government to complete the drainage system.

If it rains for about five minutes, flood creates havoc here, more so, in the last four years.

I remind a few persons that visit NL about it often for awareness sake.

No responsible government would wait for explosion of media lashing against it, or street protests, before the government takes up its responsibility.

B2mario,

Wallahi, you don't wish people in Orlu well.

An Israeli Construction company TechnoTransfer mapped out the Orlu urban drainage project for Imo stat government during the Ikwechegh administration.
It projected to channell the floods into Ogidi valley.

More than mentioned by Chiwude, there are other streams/valleys in Orlu to channel the Orlu flood. There is Mgbede stream/valley also, but the closest valley to channel the floods is nearby Ogidi. From St Joseph Church to the Ogidi valley is less than 1 kilometre.
Google the meaning of the word: foremost. I said the drainage project was foremost of the reasons Orlu youths voted Rocha Okorocha.

@Chiwude,

What governor Okorocha spent on building one side of one underground drainage system in Owerri is enough to dig gutters from St, Joseph Catholic church Umuna to Ogidi valley to channel away Orlu urban floods.
Like you correctly pointed out, it is lack of will power on the part of governors of Imo state.


International organizations or federal government or charity organizations have nothing to do with urban drainage system in any state in Nigeria.

.Federal government comes in for ecological problems like erosion, land slide, but never for problems like the Orlu urban drainage project which is wholly the responsibility of Imo state government.

B2mario:
Oga, my little problem with you is that you complain alot. Now you said Amadi Ikwechegh of 1980s(old Imo state) started it, why is it that Ike Nwachukwu, Allison Madueke, Evans Enwerem, Achike Udenwa, and Ikedi Ohakim could not complete it?

That thing is a huge project that will consume alot of money. No nearby river to channel it to, taking it to Ogidi valley is not the ultimate because it will pose another ecological problem tomorrow.

this is a life-saving project.
what Gov. Okorocha spent on one side of a one kilometre urban drainage tunnel or Gutter in Owerri could have completed the Orlu urban drainage gutter which is less than 800 meters from St. Joseph's Catholic church to Ogidi valley.

The valley shall take the floods cool, ma dear.


All those governors you mentioned after Ikwechegh, they were all insensitive governors as far as urban drainage was concerned.
Udenwa who hailed from Orlu but did not complete the drainage committed higher offense

Problem is that Okorocha scrapped nearby roads and worsened the problems.

That drainage project was foremost reason why Orlu youths voted Rocha Okorocha en mass.

Last three weeks, they poured stone on the St. Joseph's Catholic church worst spot alone Amaigbo road. But with the next few rains, the flooding shall worsen as before.

.Come to Orlu as you earlier said and see things for yourself.

B2mario:
We've heard na, he must do something next year.

Can't you see that you are repeating one same thing everytime, and the thing is becoming too boring. Are you the only person from Orlu and where were you when previous govs did not do much in Orlu and Okigwe?... Bro, you are sounding too political, infact, you have a hiden agendium.

If you are talking like this that means you don't know Orlu well before. Are you sure you are from Orlu or are you an impostor like Chino your friend? Orlu generally has been having flood problem more especially that st. Joseph axis, international market axis, Umuokpara(Orlu nwafor) axis, and owerri-ebeiri/umuowa axis so stop doing as if it was Rochas that created the problem while he's trying to remedy it.

Those untarred streets you are complaining about, had it been Udenwa and Ohakim did something on them today you'll not be blaming Rochas on their state, that innocent man has tried for Imo state, he can't do everything at once, is he a magician?

On the issue of flood, i think it's federal govt that suppose to come tackle the problem.

You don't want anybody talk about Orlu and possible eruption of diseases and misfortune from abandoned road and urban drainage projects? Good man.

Gutter or tunnel for Orlu Urban drainage system beginning at St. Joseph's Catholic church is the responsibility of the state government, not federal.

Previous Imo state governor Ikwechegh started the tunnel which you and Gov Okorocha and Abagworo now wrongly call federal project.

Coating the roads scrapped by Okorocha agents in Orlu, and completing the town's drainage system: reasonable people can't stop talking about these two life-saving projects in Orlu, no matter how much you want the projects ignored in your preference for building flyovers and new roads, and towers and drainage systems etc, in Owerri.

B2mario:
that Mandax is a paid propagandist, don't mind him. Infact, I'll be going to Orlu on 30th to see him.

It is a Simple Request people have been making for more than two years now: let Rochas Okorocha coat the very important roads he scrapped in Orlu in order not to provoke mass death from lung diseases and flooding.

Even the Archbishop of Owerri diocese through the newspaper has been pleading with Rochas Okorocha to repair the damages in Orlu, especially the damage caused by non completion of Orlu urban drainage, which risks collapse of St. Joseph's Catholic church while worshippers are inside.

Every well-meaning Imo citizen that has noticed those dangers in Orlu has approached governor Okorocha for remedies.
Four years the damages still exist, no repairs. They get worse.

Instead, Okorocha builds flyovers and underground drainage systems and new roads even where no humans live in Owerri No governor can do this


My friends and I helped in our ways to media-make Rochas Okorocha in his 2011 guber bid.

We later realized he has a grudge against some people in Orlu.
He cannot continue to visit the grudge on the entire population of Orlu who gave him votes.

Which government are you meant to call upon?

Government Houses in Nigeria are mostly occupied by heartless fellows.

Hardly any normal person competes in Nigeria's elections.

Do your best as a medic, it's Nigeria where life expectancy is coming less to 35; while life expectancy is approaching 75 in other countries

simpleseyi:
Not killed by Boko Haram but killed by ATM Dasuki Sambo, Goatluck Jonascam and Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealla the founder and originator of voodoo economics.

Mugu, how did Boko Haram emerge in the first place? What is it fighting for?

A United Nigeria Army armed with sticks alone could have chased Boko Haram out of Nigeria.

RIP Hakeem.

Chiwude:
@Mandax, I agree that the old Orlu road needs immediate attention by the government. I was totally against the scrapping of the initial road for a yet to be completed one. Rochas initial intention was good, as he wanted to dualize the road. But, If not thoughtlessness, what will make the engineers totally scrap a road linking as far as Umuowa down to Nkume.
I remember my ordeal when I last drove through that road as at last year's December, my brother it was hell to say the least. The harmattan breeze kept fuming red dust onto our path as we made our way to Umunna, that I felt sympathetic to the traders who sold their wares along the road.
But one thing you must know is this Abagworo is not the Governor of Imo state and has no power to influence Rochas decision.

Only one day you suffered on this road. Tens of thousands of people living by its sides have been subjected to man's inhumanity to man by Okorocha

Imagine a new Imo governor scrapping the all important road from Owerri Control post all the way to Akwakuma junction, pour sand on top of some portions of the road and abandone it for four years - and running. That's like what Okorocha did in Orlu, starting with the Old Orlu-Owerri road that stops at Y-,junction. The road bears a lot of businesses in Orlu.There are also other important roads here scrapped by Okorocha.

Abagworo defends evil things, propagates Imo state as only Owerri. That's how he gets the burns sometimes.

Chiwude:
But Mandax, inasmuch as you've always tried to point out Orlu's abandonment to a relative level, I still think you're taking this matter too far.
If I may ask, are you not happy that Owelle for the first time in Imo history decided to spread development to other interior parts of Imo state than the traditional Owerri, Okigwe and Orlu. From what we've seen so far, even though some of the projects have been left to rot, Rochas turned about 7 towns into new cities.
My part of Umuaka and other areas like Orieubi, Anara and others were given some sort of urban restructuring by this same government. New roads interlinking other inner towns (although unfinished were connected to my Akah city. The Owerri-Orlu road was dualized and a new bridge constructed across the Njaba river. We had new rows of shopping complex at Afor Umuakah, a new General hospital at Okwudor and a mapped out new stadium to be constructed at central school Akah.
Other new cities as well as other communities felt one presence of Owelle's touch in one way or the other. From the triangular shape of the new cities and a further push of the Owerri boundaries to the interior, one would see that the future plan of the state government is to convert the whole Imo into a metropolis by pushing the urbanisation of Owerri to directly connect with other satellite towns and into established areas like Orlu, Mbaise and Okigwe. So, from this act alone it is evident that your Governor deserves some form of commendation.
However, my grouse with Rochas is that he seems not to be bothered with the criticisms of his first tenure and keeps repeating them.

U need to understand:
The old Orlu-Owerri road - that starts from Orlu stadium through Umuowa to Y-junction. This road served a large number of business, including the international market and the teaching hospital as well as having about tens of thousands of people living on both sides of the road. How on earth could a governor of a state scrape the road and leave it for four years going?

There are other roads scrapped. Orlu is going gradually empty because people emigrate daily from here in the last four years.

Owerri can become New York overnight, New towns are worth springing up in Imo state, that's development se crave;

but people in Orlu must not be made to die in mass from lung diseases from scrapped roads that is the complaint.

If Okorocha government is not deliberately allowing the decadence in Orlu, he could have covered this all important road with asphalt. Note, I don't live or do business along that road, but I know that any government that allows this road remain like this for four years but is building new roads where no body lives in the capital city is on a wrong cause

@Abagworo

Imagine what that Owerri shall become if one tenth of Imo state people go to live in it due to absence of modern infrastructure outside Owerri? It shall become a ghetto.

Point to any other project started or completed outside Owerri since Okorocha joined APC.

Must we all be stupid in shouting Owerri, Owerri when the rest of Imo state outside Owerri is denied any development infrastructure in the last three years?
An Okigwe or Orlu person can never tell you he/she is from Owerri.

Okorocha is creating huge problems by ignoring the cries from Okigwe, Orlu, and rest of Imo state whom he has been punishing through scrapped and abandoned roads since he joined APC.


When push comes to shove soon, Abagworo shall be laughing by the side, but later lose job.

After all, there is supposed to be a limit to the amount of hardship Okorocha made and imposed upon people here - people who made him governor with their own votes.

Abagworo:
I will never give your nonsense writings any response again. I just realised you are a Jonathanian and I don't value such brainless people. Don't ever quote me again. I am for Buhari and wherever he goes. Oil and water don't mix just like a meek and drunkard can't share same ideology.

You paid propagandist. You refuse to answer to why your principal, Gov. Okorocha, made Imo state to be only Owerri since he joined APC.

Instead you went for insulting, as usual.

Why has governor Okorocha chose to make Owerri the only place he can provide with development infrastructure since 2013, more so, since the time Okorocha joined APC?

Afam4eva:
Is that in Calabar. I don't know why some of you just choose to be illiterate. It seems you don't know the difference between Calabar and Cross River state.

Also, many Imo people also refuse to differentiate between Owerri and Imo state.

Many Imo people even celebrate as Owerri is being made the ONLY HABITABLE TOWN in Imo state, while Okigwe, Orlu and other once bubbling towns in Imo state are being overtaken by dust and weeds.

B2mario:
Oga nobody will die of lungs disease, stop talking as if you fall from another planet.

How many have died in the North where dust is part of their weather? We are in Africa where more than 55% of our roads are not tarred, so stop acting as if Imo state is exceptional.

Rochas has tried in Orlu, you can't expect him to leave owerri and invest Imo resources in a small town like Orlu. Now Orlu is better and finer than all the towns in Nigeria that are in same status with it.

Rochas has attracted many development in Orlu more than other previous governors. He attracted many higher institutions to Orlu, like the school of Health technology, upgrading of TESAC facilities to polytechnic status, and the newly constructed Imo-american university which you and your fellows termed private university and also criticised him on that account.

B2mario,

Dust in the north of Nigeria is what gives northerners the many health problems like blindness, lung diseases and short live span.

Do you wish same for people in Orlu?

Mind you dust is worse from roads that were scrapped and with sand poured upon the roads and abandoned; as is the problem in Orlu.

No body is asking Okorocha government to come to Orlu to asphalt urban roads, many of them fully built with houses on both sides, not asphalted, but pose no danger of lung diseases.

No,
what Orlu pray Okorocha to do is asphalt the roads his contractors scrapped up in the last four years, if not, Okorocha is deliberately inflicting people living along those scrapped, dusty roads in Orlu with lung diseases and early blindness.

And do not believe that when the media war starts soon, that your type of excuse can suffice.

Abagworo:
With love from the tourism capital of Nigeria.

What shall it profit you, your governor and others who think Owerri is all about Imo state, when thousands of people in Orlu and elsewhere outside Owerri in Imo state start to die of lung diseases resulting from inhalation of dust from the roads abandoned here by Okorocha contractors in the last four years?

Inadequate education is a huge disease:
as this prospect of mass lung disease is being mentioned, some local champions don't understand what may be at play;

your governor instead of coating the dusty roads, ignores the impending disease disaster, but continues to build new roads where no humans live in his city of Owerri; and you show the roads with talk of tourism capital of Nigeria.

yungchief:
Rip..
I smell hunger.....
Buhari u see urself

Still waiting 4 1 naira = 1$

Waiting for Godot.
Did Buhari even know what he promised?

Does he still remember what he promised Nigerians during the campaign?

Obasanjo advanced democracy in Nigeria.

Jonathan killed democracy by handing Nigeria back to dictatorship.


Blame Jonathan 100% for Nigeria's plight today.

Nigeria may never come out from the ditch Jonathan put it into through his abdication from Aso Rock. After his abdication, Jonathan said he felt like in a cage being in Government House.

Blame Jonathan 100%.

Yes blame Jonathan. He deserves blame 100%.

Jonathan wilfully gave up Aso Rock with little or no fight for a man like Buhari.


Instead of campaign to win second term to consolidate his laudable projects and transformation of Nigeria to True Democracy, Jonathan gave up to Buhari who Nigerians had rejected thrice in the past, a Buhari of unknown academic credentials.