₦airaland Forum

U carry fone near burning gas

Investigative:
We have taken time to extract some of the achievements of the former governor;

Anambra was the first State to commence Sub-Sovereign Wealth savings, the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. At a time many other Governors were leaving huge debts, I left the equivalent of $500 million Dollars in investment as well as local and foreign currency, including $156 million in Dollar-denominated bonds.
For the first time in the history of Anambra State, Ambassadors and High Commissioners of notable countries such as United States, Britain, Russia, European Union, South Africa, Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands, Canada, among others, visited the State. Before my tenure, Anambra was practically a pariah state blacklisted by the Diplomatic Corps and international development partners.
Development partners such as UNDP, UNICEF, the World Bank, DFID, the European Union etc., which hitherto were not in Anambra State started working with the State. Anambra was consistently adjudged one of the best states in development partnership and commitment to reforms for good governance.
He was recognised as Best Governor by the Millennium Development Goals Office (OSSAP-MDGs) and the UNDP in the implementation of their programmes in Nigeria.
The Nigerian Debt Management Office (DMO) rated Anambra as the least indebted state in Nigeria. In spite of visible and measurable achievements recorded in various sectors, the State under him did not borrow or raise bonds for her various projects.
The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria rated Anambra State as the most financially stable state in the country.
The State’s ground-breaking return of schools to their original owners – Voluntary Agencies (Churches) on 1st January 2009, and subsequent partnership with the Agencies in Education, saw the State move from 24th position out of 36 States to Number One in National Examination Council (NECO) and West African Examination Council (WAEC) examinations for three consecutive years. This made the World Bank to commission a study, led by the renowned Prof. Paul Collier of Oxford University, on this revolutionary partnership and phenomenal achievement.
The State also entered into strategic partnership with the Churches in the Health sector. This symbiotic relationship resulted in a tremendous boost to health care because of the services offered by health institutions owned by Voluntary Agencies, while the State restored grants to the agencies and made available to them more than 50 million Dollars in various types of support.
Through partnership with the Church in the Health sector, his Government funded the transformation of -:
a: Iyienu Hospital, Ogidi;

b: Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Ihiala;

c: St Charles Borromeo Hospital, Onitsha;

d: Holy Rosary Hospital, Waterside, Onitsha; and

e: St. Joseph Hospital, Adazi-Nnukwu.



His Government also built the Joseph Nwilo Heart Centre in St. Joseph, Adazi-Nnukwu, where heart operations are now being performed.

His Government won the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (1 Million dollars) as the best-performing state in immunisation in the South-East. With complementary funding from our Government, they used the money to build 10 Maternal and Child Care Centres across the State, particularly in rural communities, in partnership with the Churches.
The State was the first to procure and distribute more than 30,000 computers to secondary schools, including 22,500 from HP. The Managing Director for Personal Systems Group HP Inc, Mr. FabriceCampoy described the deployment as the biggest of such projects in the Middle-East and Africa.
Anambra State Government provided Microsoft Academies to more than 500 secondary schools, which the Head of Microsoft in Nigeria (Mr. Ken Span) described as the biggest such deployment in Africa so far.
The State provided Internet access to more than 500 secondary schools, which the CEO of Galaxy Backbone (Mr. Gerald Ilukwe) characterized as incomparable to any in the country.
More than 700 buses were provided to secondary schools in the State by our Government.
Boreholes were provided in schools all over the State.
Numerous classrooms were built in all the 177 communities of the State.

17 As part of the efforts to turn around the economy of the State, a number of companies were attracted to build their facilities in the Anambra State. A case in point is SABMiller, the 2nd largest brewery in the world, which built their first Green Field facility in the State, which is today one of the most successful facilities they operate globally.

A number of other companies followed the SABMiller initiative and were all supported and encouraged under our Government; a good example is INNOSON Motor Manufacturing Company, from which our government bought more than 1,000 vehicles.
Anambra State for the first time started close collaboration with recognized government security agencies (the Police, Army, Navy, Department of State Security, Civil Defence, among others), offering them various types of support including provision of more than 500 security vehicles. The improvement in security was phenomenal, such that the former IG of Police (Abubakar Mohammed) lauded Anambra State for not witnessing any bank robbery in my last three years in office.
To further enhance security, Anambra State provided at least one security vehicle to each of all the 177 communities in the State as well as various organizations such as markets and Churches.
His Administration conceived and built, from scratch, the first state-owned Teaching Hospital, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu teaching Hospital, Awka.
His Government commenced the planned development of the Igbariam Campus of the ChukwuemekaOdumegwu-Ojukwu University, including the fencing, construction of internal roads, electrification, construction of the Faculty of Law, Auditorium, Administrative Block, Faculty of Agriculture, Management Building, among others).
His Government attracted the World Bank support on erosion – National Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) – to Anambra State.
His Government was the first to do Poverty Mapping in Nigeria, as a guide for the effective implementation of our poverty-alleviation strategies.
His Government, for the first time, undertook the aerial mapping of Awka as well as the production of Structure Plans for Awka Capital Territory, Onitsha and Nnewi.
During his tenure and with his Government’s support, Anambra State became an oil producing State.
He built the first Secretariat Complex to house State Government Ministries that were hitherto scattered around the State.
His government commenced the development of the ‘Three Arms Zone’ comprising Government House/Governor’s Lodge, Legislative Building/Speakers Residence, and Judiciary Building with Chief Judge’s Residence.
By the end of his tenure in 2014, more than twelve (12) health institutions, including two hospitals, had secured accreditation; when we took off in 2006, no health institution in Anambra State was duly accredited.
Anambra State was the first to undergo national peer review, which scrutinised State Governments for good governance, through the State Peer Review Mechanism (SPRM), an initiative of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum in collaboration with the DFID.

chai



Peter Obi amaka inshortu!

KillMNKnow:
Igbos

amaka

SlyDev:
This pampering is too much, let FG give IPOB some of the pampering

you go die if u no mention ipob daily?

This clown with his 2 wooden left legs

Excellent way to deal with eventualities,his fears etc. Once u get over these things.u breathe easier and live life without fears.

Many wise men prepare for death and then go ahead and live beautifully

They really should



Sentiments,mago mago apart

Med

silvoclaira:
Look alike Martin Luther king jnr.sitted at the right side next to the white man

J.T.U Aguiyi Ironsi

FakeUnity:
Then you run the risk of frightening yourself with your terrible yoruba tribal marks while counting your teeth.

That boy is dumb..quit engaging him..

ViperAda:
You liar. Who were the host of others?. Can you mention any of the coupists who alleged Banjo as a member of the culprits in any account?.
An narrative suggested that Banjo was arrested for plotting a coup against Aguiyi ironsi, another says he was found with a gun when he was summoned by Ironsi in his office, another says he was supposedly arrested to give the coup a national outlook rather than an ibo coup.
Since he was close to Ojukwu who was rumored to be privy of the coup, one wonders why Ojukwu was not arrested if the rumor was true.
There is no official records where Banjo was listed among the coup plotters neither was any account attributed to the coupists either alleged or confirmed he was part of them.

A coup that had 7 ibo majors, 3 ibo junior officers and 1 Yoruba major was obviously an ibo coup.

-Viper

1 Yoruba major you say? Well even if it were half yorobà major ,it was a Yoruba human after all.. but I'm sure names like wale demoyega,col banjo, lt olofimihan,captain fola oyewole and numerous Yoruba NCOs are not from nnewi.

That coup had officers and men from the east,the west,the Midwest and the north..which region had the most participant is irrelevant. U can't compare that with the purely northern preceding coup of July that had 100 percent northern officers and infantry.. with zero casualties from the north..

I'm coming with some proofs to back up all these facts shortly..I'm a bit indisposed now

headSmasher:
We know you people always trying to change the narrative, what was the guy's post that got him killed, he is wasn't a top ranking officer that needed to die, he was just part of the casualties and stubbing blocks on the part of the senseless myopic unreasonable callous irresponsible Igbo officers that made him a Scape goat in the Igbo coup

Arthur Unaegbe was a full colonel.. which was top notch then. Remember we had just one major general and one or two brigadiers.. so colonel wasn't so junior a rank in the officer corps then..

Most casualties of that coup were stumbling blocks to the coup.. and the executors were from all regions of then..viz.. the east,the west,Midwest and north. Couldn't have been an Igbo coup.

Remember ojukwu and ironsi quelled the same coup

ViperAda:
It was an ibo coup and your lies would not change the facts. Lt. col. Arthur Unegbe was shot by Anuforo because he was known to be close to brig. Maimalari and had to be silenced. He was not killed for opposing the coup but for his closeness to Maimalari who was eventually killed by Ifeajuna.

-Viper

An Igbo coup with actors like major ademoyega,col. Victor banjo,lt.olofimihan and a host of others?


Many of the casualties of the coup were in one way or the other opposed to the coup ... Be it drawing a gun on the coupists or blocking their access to armoury..


Col Arthur was killed for denying the coupists access to the armoury. Was he the only officer close to maimalari?

Racoon:
First Generation of Nigerian Army officers - June 1959.

Thanks... Now I got to see a picture of how Arthur unaegbe looked like.. I took an interest in him after reading Gen. Madiebos Revolution and Civil war accounts over 2 decades ago..


This is a senior Igbo officer killed for vehemently opposing a coup by officers drawn from all the regions of the county... For those who have been brainwashed to keep parroting that it was an Igbo coup..

Ekundayo7574:
young man i am from the south west and i will support yoruba presidency till death

So support it and leave others to support what they may ..why open a thread to lament about the Igbos?

Yorubas ehn..una matter tire person shaa..



No wonder other regions just dey look una

Every night?


U be Flemish giant?

ThinkSmarter:
There are more to the story.
Kidnappers don't just go to someone's shop, place or residence to kidnap someone without have much details about their victim.
Except there are bandits.
Imagine he is married to 5 wives at 37.
Wetin dey give am morale? Money? Source?
This is likely an assasination game, imagine no enough time giving to raise such a huge amount of money?
Note i assume the guy or his family is wealthy to agree to 50million, instead of 60million

they no agree 50m


Think smarter..

Ordinary consulting u don go rest..lol

Who be dis agbakpan ?

Good boy...




Leave the fuel price for where e dey,make we dey grapple with only una lootocracy and gross incompetence..

69 actually


Her twin bro is categorically contesting for presidency

gidgiddy:
You mean you didnt salivate when 73 people were killed in your state by killer herdsmen but you really salivate about IPOB? Hmmmmm this incredible love you have for the security of South Easterners is truly touching, you didnt even have such love for your own state, did BMC raise your salary recently?

This should silence the BMC chief zombie pretending to be from benue.

[quote author=cosmatika post=109687519][/quote]that goat is not from benue..


He is a rabid Igbo fearing head slammer whose only reason to carry on with his wretched living is throwing imaginary shots at the Igbo tribe

Scary,may God strengthen her

Zombie thread for zombies to crow their zombie heads off .. I can already see some crawling out of their rotten shells

M out of here

It's really unfortunate.. that man has the reverse of Midas touch.. any gold he touches turns to muck

Igbo obsession anywhere u look

Investorozay:
This is bad
The guy will contact some crazy skin disease

esp within groin area