₦airaland Forum

Babatundetinubu:
most of d robbers r from d SE....give dem Biafra.....so 9jeria can have peace...

MalcoImX:
Tinubu started all this problem, by starting to appoint them into his cabinet as commissioners. See now, they think they're stronger and are wrestling for positions with the indigenes.

SurePresident:
Creatively funny.


Yes, Don Jazzy put Nigeria first before being an igbo and he refused to make imbecilic statement like most of his kinsmen. This is how it should be. Civilized nations like America and others that we aspire to be like will always tell you Country first before tribe. Jazzy is one of the very few intelligent igbos that I admire. Majority of igbos have fart-filled craniums, they've been brainwashed since young age. Whenever an igbo heads a Govt office, he never employs other tribes despite better qualifications, only igbos. tribalism has eaten so deep into igbos that other wiser tribes can NEVER vote an igbo as President. This is the major reason why an igbo shall never rule Nigeria. It's a verified fact that there are triple Nos of Hausas than igbos in Lagos, yet the Hausas give us no head ache whatsoever. But igbos with their leaky diarrhea mouth, are hated by both Yorubas and Hausas in Lagos. For real, I can see where tribalism is guaranteed to end these senseless igbos.

melvin0004:
guy u knw wot I mean.Stop beating ard d bush......

melvin0004:
u no sabi english abi.........y didn't u mention edo state @op in ur heading. .....

Neatcarsonly:
Kindly call to negotiate.

Thanks.

Fogman:
My engineer will check it out asap. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Ichol:
2nd Niger bridge.
PDP administration has enslave Igbo people for 25 yrs.

The construction of 2nd Niger Bridge
through a Public Private Partnership
involving Julius Berger -NSIA
Consortium and tolling the Igbo people
for 25 years thereafter is another 419
on the Biafran Igbo citizens of South
East Nigeria. According to the terms of
this fraudulent business, the project is
a Design, Finance, Build, Operate and
Transfer (DFBOT) model to cost N117
Billion naira with the Federal
Government contributing a paltry N30
billion naira while the consortium will
raise the rest of the funds and
thereafter hold the Igbo people to
ransom by collecting a 25 year toll tax
for raising the rest of the funds
offshore.
President Jonathan speaking at the
ground breaking ceremony at Onitsha
in March 2014 said that “as part of our
administration’s Transformation
Agenda in the road sector, we have set
out to construct two very important
new bridges, across our Nation’s two
great rivers – the River Niger and River
Benue.These are the Loko-Oweto
Bridge linking Nasarawa and Benue
States,which is progressing
satisfactorily, and this 2nd Niger
Bridge, connecting Anambra and Delta
States.” It is worthy to note that the
other bridges are being constructed by
Jonathan regime without any PPP and
without any toll tax on the people of
Benue and Nasarrawa States.
This means that all President Ebele
Jonathan can do for the Igbos since
they gave him unprecedented support
since 2010 is to contribute only N30
billion naira while some Shylock
consortium raises the rest of the
money and milks the Igbo nation for 25
years.
Experts have told me that the bridge is
not supposed to cost anything above
N50 billion , going by Nigerian standard
of cost inflation, including the 11 km
access roads. However, this contract
cost was doubled overnight to N117
billion naira to justify the financial heist
on Ndigbo. The fraudulent
construction will cost N117 billion for a
1.5 km bridge while the 1.3 km Lekki-
Ikoyi suspension Bridge cost only N29
billion naira. Thus the thieves jerked
the cost of constructing the 2nd Niger
bridge to 4 times the actual cost just to
justify the rape on the over grateful
Igbo nation.
Informed sources within Ohanaeze
and among Igbo leaders and All
Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) have
continued to echo that this 2nd Niger
Bridge business venture is actually
between Julius Berger, Ebele Jonathan
and Peter Obi and that Mr Peter Obi’s
2nd Niger Bridge business venture will
yield at least N12 billion naira annually.
Reliable sources have revealed that
whenever the bridge is finished, all
heavy duty vehicles will pay N1000 toll
fee while cars and mini buses will pay
N500 naira. Tricycles will pay N200
while cyclists will pay N100 naira each
time they pass through the bridge.
This criminal toll gate will yield the
corrupt business consortium and their
secret sponsors about N1 billion
monthly. This means that in 4 years,
the thieves would have recovered N50
billion which is the actual over-
exaggerated cost of constructing
(going by the Federal Ministry of Works
Corrupt Standard). Going by the
Governor Fashola Run Lagos State
standard, the bridge will not cost
anything above N30 billion naira and
thieves will take about two years plus
to recover their investments and the
rest 22 years will be excess profit.
The financial interpretation of this
criminality is that for 25 years with
static revenue of N12 billion annually
(ignoring the tendencies to increase
the toll fee after 2 years) , the thieves
will make N300 billion naira turnover
with 250 billion naira as profit. This
means that their investment is
recouped within 4 years and the rest
21 years is profit. If the cost of such
offshore long term cost is factored,
usually 2.5 -5% per annum, and its
future value for 25 years is factored, it
cannot get any anywhere near N60
billion naira and yet the financial
bandits are bandying N117 billion naira
as cost of constructing the bridge.
The implication is that some politicians
within the presidency and Anambra
State Govt House have done 419 on the
Igbo nation and we are all smiling like
charmed drunks. If the entire Igbo
nation is charmed, I am not. God will
definitely disgrace the thieves that
want to put the Igbo race into a slavish
bondage of paying through the nose
for a Niger Bridge when all the rest of
Nigeria, from Benue to Kogi , Calabar
to Lagos,Maidugeri to Sokoto and all
over Nigeria has bridges, dams, silos,
roads etc built with Federal
Government money while the defeated
Biafran Igbos of South East will have
theirs built and tolled for 25 years.
For all the support Ndigbo gave Ebele
Azikkiwe Jonathan since 2010, a PPP
modeled 2nd Niger Bridge is far worse
that what Awolowo did when Ojukwu
released him from Calabar prison and
he promised to declare Oduduwa
Republic, but chickened out at the
deceptive offer of Gowon. This time
around, this disappointment is not
from a Soyinka nor Obasajo nor
Tinubu, rather it is under the
supervision of “our cousin” Ebele
Azikiwe Jonathan, and our former
Chairman, Board of Trustees of All
Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA)
‘Igbo Party” Peter Obi and world
acclaimed Igbo Economist Okonjo
Iwuala whose economic wisdom failed
to notice the injustice and criminality in
this transaction.
Condemning the fraud called 2nd Niger
Bridge, former governor of Anambra
State and serving senator, Dr Chris
Ngige said that “The first is that the
bridge is being built on a Public Private
Partnership(PPP) deal, with overseas
financiers. For that reason, the cost of
the bridge suffered double inflation,
both from the Nigeria end and the
financiers who alleged cost of fund.
“The bridge, which should have cost
N70 billion is now to cost N114 billion,
that was why I told the South-East
Senate Caucus that I was not going to
be a part of it”. Ngige even got it
wrong-the bridge should have cost
between N30-N50 billion naira, and
factoring cost of funds it should be t
around N40-N60 Billion if PPP should
be used.
Ohanaeze and all Igbo leaders should
condemn this enslavement of Ndigbo
through this over-bloated and
fraudulent construction of a bridge
and must demand immediately the
cancellation of this PPP Design,
Finance, Build, Operate and Transfer
model .
Jonathan led Government should
takeover the responsibility for the full
construction of that bridge, and settle
off the fraudulent consortium. This
fraudulent 419 2nd Niger Bridge
should be revised for a full scale
Federal Government Built arrangement
before another scandal erupts.
Obinna Akukwe
profetobinna2@yahoo.com
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