AngryMrMAN:


Dr Boniface Aniebonam💥💥💥💥

Yeah

Neddstark:
Below are days that businesses would be grounded to a halt in the Southeast as outlined in a post I got from someone
*Holidays in the South East in this month of May*
"1st May Workers' Day Celebration
2nd May sit at home/Public holiday
3rd May Ramadan
4th May Ramadan
9th May sit at home
16th May sit at home
17th May Nnamadi kanu court / sit
18th MNK Court day sit at home.
23rd Monday sit at home
26th May MNK Court day sit at home
27th May Children's day
29th May Democracy day
30th May Biafra Day /sit at home.

13 days Sit At Home/ Holidays plus 8 days of Saturdays and Sundays, totalling 21 days of 30 days in the Month of May.

What part of southeast is observing sit at home? Nothing like that in Abia state.

franchasofficia:
All the 3 major parties in Nigeria now, its Igbo men that made them big.


Dr Alex Ekwueme formed PDP before some moneybags hijacked it from him.


Dr Ogbonnaya Onu paid to register APC as a party before Tinubu used media propaganda and Lagos stolen treasury to hijack it.


Mr Peter Obi revived Labor Party from state of oblivion and made it the number one and most trending party in less than one year.



Yet these hungry cretins will never respect the Igbos despite knowing that Igbos are an indomitable lion you cant do without

NNPP also founded by Igbo man.

rantingpigs:
That is Bobrisky before he came to 'OUR' Lagos

Lolz Lolz

rantingpigs:
. Knock out .

See a mature Yoruba woman in Oyo State, taking a dump in public. She can't even have water to wash her dirty puna

Very disgusting things.

Is that Bobrisky or a real woman?

Ttalk:


Why are obidients so aggressive and abusive? Can you deny the project is a low-budget water system?

You can't decide how your opponent will react to your aggression.

Ttalk:
I challenge Peter Obi to build this substandard project in SE if he won't be booed.

Ask your politicians to build high budget borehole in your region. Una get water for house na hem una still dey shit outside?

Biodun556:


Obidients will not see their people acts of corruption, they prever to criticize other regions

We Abians never spared our leaders, in fact Ikpeazu was the most criticized governor in Nigeria and same treatmemt was given to TA Orji. If Alex Otti is not doing Fine we Abian will call him out.
Since this week Alex Otti is offering free surgery to Every one who resides in Abia nor matter what the nature of the person's illness is and thousands of poor people are benefiting from it already.
No body can talk ill of Alex Otti in Abia state because Abians are very happy with him even PDP people are confessing that Jesus is Lord indeed forget politics.
When we dey see shege in the hands of PDP governors you all was happy about it and now Abians are happy while our enemies became angry

Biodun556:
VANGUARD NEWS


October 25, 2023

Port Harcourt Road and socio-economic costs of its completion

Abia state governor Alex Otti
Gov. Alex Otti

By John Okiyi Kalu

ON Thursday, October 12, 2023, the government of Abia State, led by Mr. Alex Otti, gathered members and supporters of the Labour Party in the state to celebrate what they tagged the “Flag-off of the Reconstruction of Port Harcourt Road Aba by Julius Berger Construction Company, JB,” even though in reality, it was the recommencement of work along that stretch of road that was started by the Ikpeazu administration.


While Governor Otti, in his elaborate written address during the occasion, did not mention the cost of the work, which he stated would be completed in 18 months, his spokesman, during a preceding radio programme monitored in Umuahia the same day, confirmed that the job was re-awarded to JB at more than N30 billion for what the governor stated was a 6.7km urban road. For the avoidance of doubt, it was not the Abia State government that voluntarily revealed the over N30 billion cost of the Port Harcourt road, Aba, project; instead, the independent review of the PDP-led opposition in the state forced the government to admit on record that they actually awarded the project for at least N30 billion.


Geography: Contrary to what bloggers and skit makers have been fed, Port Harcourt road, Aba, is not the same as the federal road from Port Harcourt to Aba. The Port Harcourt road, Aba, under focus starts from Ngwa Road by Asa, inside Aba, and ends at Asa Nnentu spare part market, Aba. It was previously awarded in 2017 by the Ikpeazu administration for reconstruction as a six-lane road with two wide gutters that will discharge drainage waters at Umuagbai Pond and a total length of 5.9 kilometres.

I have read materials published by the administration to the effect that the total length is 6.7 kilometres. Maybe we take six kilometres as an average for the purposes of this review, but suffice it to state that about two years ago, representatives of the African Development Bank, AfDB, also measured the same road as being 5.9 kilometres, and it is in their book as such.

If we apply the same pricing template used for JB, the difference in length of almost one kilometre may have cost the state an additional N5 billion. On the other hand, Aba-Port Harcourt Express Road is a segment of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway that starts from Asa Nnentu in Aba to Oyigbo in Rivers State at the Imo River boundary. It is a federal highway of about 33.7 kilometres.

For emphasis, the Abia State Government is not completing or reconstructing the Aba-Port Harcourt express road. That road is a federal road that was previously awarded to the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, CCECC, by the Goodluck Jonathan government in 2015, but the contract failed as far as the Aba segment is concerned. Minister David Umahi, who visited Abia, recently promised on record to get the work recommenced within record time, and we are trusting in his promise.

Mathematics of the project: Before I go into the mathematics of the project, please permit me to share some fun facts to guide you. Hartland Construction Company, which the Ikpeazu administration hired for the Port Harcourt Road Aba project in 2017, delivered the Okigwe to Umuahia segment of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Express road for the Federal Government. They are currently contracted by the same government to deliver the Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene federal road.

Similarly, Julius Berger is working for the Federal Government at different locations in Nigeria but without any presence in Abia State as of May 2023. They have now been hired by Governor Otti to complete the project started by Hartland along Port Harcourt road, Aba. But the government has yet to inform citizens of any exit arrangement between the state government and Hartland that enabled the legal takeover of the project by JB. In Nigeria, it is estimated that 60 per cent of the cost of road construction comes from materials, while the remaining 40 per cent is labour-related.

The major materials required for road construction in a state like Abia should include asphalt, cement, iron rods for gutters, laterite, granite, and sharp sand. Of course, bitumen in asphalt is mostly imported and remains the one material that will be most affected by fluctuations in forex; hence, the price of asphalt materials is subject to the international price of crude oil. It is instructive to note that some local companies in Nigeria and Abia State also have asphalt plants. Cement is locally manufactured by companies like Dangote, BUA, and Ibeto, while sand, stones, and laterite are mined locally within Abia or neighbouring states.


Analysis A. As of 2017, the Ikpeazu administration had awarded the reconstruction of the Port Harcourt road Aba project to Hartland Nig Ltd. at a cost of N9,882,752,246.4 only for a six-lane road with BRT and drains (gutters) with a discharge pipe to Umuagbai pond.


Therefore, N9.88bn in 2017 was equivalent to USD 29.6m.

Analysis B. Between April and October 2023, Alex Otti hired Julius Berger to complete the reconstruction of Port Harcourt road, Aba, with the drains already established and valued at 40 per cent of the total project, at a cost of N30 billion. Note that while the government has admitted that the opposition was right about the amount, they did not release any actual figures; hence, we have to work with N30 billion. The details given by Governor Otti on record are that the project is a six-lane road with drains on both sides. That is similar to the Ikpeazu design but without information on storm water channelling or BRT. As of the time of doing this analysis, I do not know if the existing drainage will be completely destroyed and redone or if any other addition or subtraction will affect the original design approved by the Abia State Ministry of Works in 2017.

I. According to exchange-rates.org, the average USD exchange rate to Naira in 2023 will be 588.89.

II. Using that average rate, N30bn amounts to USD50.9m.


III. The difference in dollars between the awards is therefore $21.3 million.

For those who love to denominate contracts in dollars, the 2017 contract was valued at USD 31,624,807.19 if one applied the May 2017 spot exchange rate, while the 2023 contract was valued at USD 38,684,719.54 using the October 12th spot exchange rate. The difference is USD 7,059,912.3, or N5.5b.

Socio-economics of the project: Before awarding this project to Julius Berger, the Otti government admitted that there was no competitive bidding or advertisement and that they had to source funds through virement because there was no equivalent budgetary provision for the project in 2023. The question the mathematics of the project raises is: If there was competitive bidding, would this project have cost Abians N30bn?

Whatever led to the difference in measurements of the same road from 5.9km to 6.7km may also have cost the state an additional USD 6,446,987.69 using the costing template of 6km for N30b or N5b per km. It is interesting to note that Setraco, Hartland, or any other Nigerian grade A construction company would spend at least 40 percent of the project amount to pay our local labour in Abia, including carpenters, iron benders, etc., but JB will remit funds abroad.

For a government that made heavy media noise around buying some Innoson vehicles, the question is: why use Innoson vehicles to conserve forex and, in the same breath, starve our artisans and local economy in Abia State by using JB to export forex? The hard work on the Port Harcourt road project is design, flood control, and drains, which were already done before the emergence of Otti’s administration. On Governor Otti’s claim of shoddy work done by the previous administration, I need to remind him that Ukaegbu, Umuola, Kamalu roads, etc., are eight years old and still standing. Aba road and Osaah-Umuagu Isingwu road, both in Umuahia; Azikiwe and Ngwa roads, in Aba, etc., cannot be said to be shoddy jobs.

Whereas the ongoing work by the Otti administration along College Road, Aba, where landlords have already threatened to sue the contractor, is what should be called shoddy, along with the 200-metre Cemetery Market Road, Aba, that failed one week after Otti commissioned the project with fanfare. In any case, a man who does not have any road project that has survived up to a year should be careful when talking about shoddiness while speaking to projects done by the same Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, that brought back an Abia-born engineer from the United States of America to innovate and start the use of rigid pavement (cement) technology in road construction in the state and the region. Unlike Dave Umahi and others, Otti has not considered borrowing from this technology in any of his awarded projects.

Let me also address those who base their argument on opposition lacking the moral right to scrutinise this road project on the basis that the previous administration did not complete that particular road project. Truth be told, the road is important to Aba people, but there are other equally important roads within the city, such as Aba-Owerri Road, Ngwa Road, Faulks Road, etc., that were reconstructed by the previous administration.

If resources were available, the same administration would have evidentially completed the same Port Harcourt road because it obviously considered it important enough to award the contract and partially funded the project up to 40% of its execution, including establishing gutters and waterways. The work was also awarded to a Nigerian wholly owned grade A construction company, Hartland, the same construction company the Federal Government is using to reconstruct a segment of the Enugu-Port Harcourt federal highway as well as the Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene federal road.

If a government awards a contract, funds take off, and implementation of the project reaches the 40 per cent stage, it is a clear indication that it intends to fully execute the work but is limited by the non-availability of funds. Even the contract awarded to Julius Berger might also suffer cash flow challenges, usually occasioned by unforeseen economic adversity, unless the state government has fully paid for it. That will not mean that the government does not intend to complete the project. Every resident of Aba, including me, wants this road completed. So, we pray that the fortunes of the state and the nation will continue to improve. However, the question must be asked: if you are hungry and decide to patronize a restaurant where you are served a very delicious meal but afterwards slammed with a bankrupting bill of N100m for the food, won’t you at least ask questions?

We need an explanation for why we are paying $25 million above what the original cost of the project was in 2017, even after more than 40% of the work has been done.

Assuming the same contract was advertised by the Otti administration and possibly awarded to a good local contractor at N400m/km, the six lanes of the 6km road will amount to N14.4bn, and if the ministry of works is allowed to subtract the value of work already done, Abia State under Otti would most likely have spent less than N10bn to complete the project and use the remaining N20bn or $25.8m to do much more for Ndi Abia. I don’t know if you see me as a troublemaker or simply as someone reminding Governor Alex Otti of his commitment to the people, but suffice it to drop a quote from him during his inaugural address: “We appreciate everyone’s right to hold and express an opinion, but you must also accord other citizens the right to do the same. No one should stand in the way of the legitimate aspirations of others. Ours shall be a government of law and order.”

Speaking further. Governor Otti said: “Transparency, accountability, and public trust shall be at the centre of everything we do. We will run a responsible and honest government and lead by example. We will not tolerate any form of corruption or theft of public property. Gratification and kickbacks are totally forbidden in this government.” We are asking questions, and nobody or group can intimidate us.



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/10/port-harcourt-road-and-socio-economic-costs-of-its-completion/amp/

Why did Ikpeazu abandon the project after taking billions of loan?

LifeofDream:
Bearing Igbo name doest change anything.. Many people bear Yoruba or Hausa name and they're not from either ethnic..

Bearing Igbo name is a real deal when you are from east and West of River Niger that is confirm Igboland.Have you seen some one from Bornu, Kano, Niger, Kaduna bearing Igbo name or even Oyo, Ondo etc..?
In African people are known by their tribal names.

gidgiddy:
I'm a Christian. My religion frowns at gays, transgender, Lesbians and crossdressing. However, my religion tells me not to discriminate. Not even the Pope, head over 1 billion Catholics, will discriminate against a person because of their sexual orientation, or being gay.

In rich progressive countries of the world such as USA,Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, to discriminate against a gay person because of their sexual orientation can attract a prison sentence. Gay rights are taken seriously. It is only in poor retrogressive countries such as Nigeria that you see people openly discriminate against gay people

I'm not a fan of Bobrisky, trans, crossdressers or LGBT, but I think it very wrong and backwards to discriminate against them for that. What two consenting adults decide to do inside the bedroom is none of my business, even if they are same sex.

What is it as a Nigerian do you think you know, that Britain, USA and Canada don't know? You think those countries are foolish for protecting their gay citizens? While you are busy bringing out laws that jail and punish yours?

You watch people openly abuse and mutilate the Naira every day and think nothing of it, but support Bobrisky going to jail for that, just because he chooses to live an alternate lifestyle? The same lifestyle that countries you pray to be like protect?

You don't have to like a gay person, but to discriminate against a gay person belongs in the stoneages, not modern society

Are they keeping their sexuality inside their bedrooms? If they are keep what ever they are doing inside their bedrooms noone would care but rather they want the public to notice what they are doing and give them special priviledge and status for being gay. That is the problem.

Dittodat:

We do not have a history of cannibalism. That is rampant in your history. Go home and ask your elders.

Your Obas that eat the hearts of a dead Oba is that not cannibalism?

Tranquillity360:
Yet Igbo elders and clergys are calling for release of Ipob leader


Lolz Your one Nigeria is a blessing to Igbo land

Lol...Even Emmanuel Kanu knows Igbo leaders are only paying lip service in support of MNK's release.
Nnamdi Kanu said recently,he will end insecurity in SE in just 2 minutes if he is released Is he a magician?
He said that because he knows he is the problem of insecurity in Igboland he now wants to give us security in exchange for his freedom inside one Nigeria .We no go gree o we no go gree .He must finish what he started.He must be freed as a Biafran with Biafra flag in his hands.Why is he begging to be released inside zoo?

Tranquillity360:
You never make sense so why should I take you serious.

If pro Biafra agitators are not enemies of ndi Igbo Enugu Ezike community won't be invoking their deities to kill them. İpob have become a curse to igboiand and must be cleansed in order to restore peace and progress in our land.

Tranquillity360:
This have always been the game of evil apc government through their criminal agent in Finland.

Cause havocs and make the people to hate Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and anything related to Ipob.



Thank God ipob leadership found out on time and disappointed Ipob from his Criminality.




I understand the game

You can't distance ipob from the criminalities of ipob it is impossible.
Simon Ekpa overthrew ipob leadership and became head of the evil gang created by Nnamdi Kanu to torment Igbos. Both Ekpa and his master MNK are two greatest enemies of Ndigbo.

blacknp:
No Wike is their god that chooses who becomes governor, if I lie go ask Fubara.

After chosen what come happen?
Fubara release song for am 'Wike dey ur dey make we dey our dey'

Max24:

Happy with audio projects? Using pictures to deceive them ? Only God knows the billions Otti uses to do PR monthly. Money that should have gone into projects. I pity the people of Abia State. Sooner or later they will realize that Otti and Obi have carried them handclap.

Pity for ya self

yemmit90:


Is Tinubu still a governor to you? Never underestimate a president that is interested in who become governor of a state. They will rig him out and clean mouth. Obaseki would've lost Edo state if he doesn't have presidency backing back then.

All he need to do is to call all key players into Aso rock and promise them what they can't resist. Remember he control Inec and security agents too. Nigeria is one kind of funny country where anything is possible.

Wike can not be a Tinubu in Rivers state you can take it to the bank.
Amaechi had the backing of Buhari yet he failed woefully in the hands of Wike. Rivers people will rally around governor when the time comes.

Wainey:
Tinubu will continue to Lord over Lagos cos he does a "you chop and I chop" govt.
Wike wants to rule everyone like a tyrant

It won't work.

Max24:

Do you see other states snapping pictures same way Otti is doing? Some govs are doing 5 times better than Otti but they are not making noise. Same manner Obi would build a 17century borehole and called the whole Nigerian press to come and snap him. Empty drums make the loudest noise.

How is it your business?
The people of Abia state that elected him are very happy with the beautiful pictures he is snapping puandan.

Whalis:

Let me help with some Igbo tradition. Anyone whose mother is an Igbo woman is seen as an Igbo son even if the woman isn't married to an Igbo person. Check these people you mentioned likely their mother was from igbo land.
Secondly in Ikwerre land we have the offsprings of Arochukwu people. Their offsprings have no problem with identifying that they are Igbos. Those you mentioned might likely fail into these categories.

You are not making sense. Ikwerre amd other Igbo speaking communities in Rivers state are members of Ohanaeze ndi Igbo. Membership of Ohanaeze is Based on community not individuals.The Adelekes in Osun state their Mother is Igbo but cant join Ohaneze Based on that.

Christistruth00:



Can you see Ojukwu's problem

He behaved as if the Eastern Region Minorities had no rights.

Simply being mischieious. Ojukwu went to Aburi to resolved serious issues with Nigeria federal goverment and you are here talking about minorities

AllenSpencer:
Fubara should enjoy his term cos it will be the first and last.

Our whole powers will descend in coming election. We will condemn and bastardize his image across the state-in person & online. Hook him up with propagandas he won’t be able to get out of.

He messed up with the wrong dude, and he is not a match.

You think Rivers state is Lagos where Tinubu is their god that chooses who becomes governor?

Max24:

What development did you see in the picture? Sanwo Olu is delivering blue and red rails while Otti is snapping pictures and Obidients are clapping for him . Indeed Obidients are totally head-less mob.

Sanwo Olu is governor of former capital of Nigeria and the richest state in Nigeria don't compare the two. Compare Abia state with the other 5 Yoruba states.

Peter Obi should please help Iragbiji with one borehole project make them see water drink.

garfield1:


Andoni,opobo,bonny,degema,okrika,ogubolo,akuku toru,asari toru,abolga,parts of pH,parts of ahoada,parts of onelga

Igboid groups in Rivers state are in clear majority.Ijaw people are majority only Bayelsa state.

Christistruth00:



The Eastern Region Minorities Lands were involved in the Aburi discussion
They owned half of the Eastern Region Land and it was consistently pointed out to Ojukwu but he seemed not to understand the implications

General Goeon's deputy Commodore wey was from Calabar and raised the issue

Ojukwu refused to discuss it though it was ponted out to him that the Eastern Region Minorities were important stakeholders in the matters discussed st Aburi

Ojukwu was in Aburi to discuss future of eastern region not minority rights t but if you said otherwise please provide proof that the rights of eastern region minority was discussed at Aburi or keep quiet.

yarimo:
So the Kano actress that died not worth mourning to OBI

For you everythingis is tribal politics.
You and Tinubu can mourn the Kano actress.

garfield1:


We have 2 mil ijaws in bayelsa,1.5 mil in rivers,700k in delta,100k in aks,100k in Edo and 400k in ondo.
We have 1.6 mil Igbos in delta,700k in rivers

1.5m Ijaw in Rivers state who are they?

Chicagograduate:
There is no harmless ritual.All rituals involve taking blood.If animal blood no work the juju go demand for a human blood.

Some body said holy communion is ritual if he is right how is that harmful?

JagabanB:

The data is obviously fàke, even in Awka, people haul trucks around looking for water.

Does it mean landlords doesn't drill boreholes in there houses or what?
In Abia state every modern house have borehole connected to apartments.