gartamanta:
HEAR WHAT THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF IMO STATE SAID.

IKEDI OHAKIM (former governor of Imo state) wrote:

Please, let it be known from today that South East is not landlocked. It is only our economy that is locked. One quick way of unlocking the economy of South East is through marine business.

Contrary to the impression that the South East is landlocked, the truth is that it has one of the potentially deepest seaports in the country at Osemoto/Oseokwa in Imo and Anambra States.

A seaport was designated there in 1959, but the project was abandoned and the admiralty membership erased for obvious political reasons. African Development Bank (ADB) feasibility report on this is unambiguous.

Oseokwa (Ihiala LGA, Anambra State) and Osemoto (Oguta LGA, Imo State) are the deepest natural harbors in the country (over 20m deep) and offer real naval and marine transportation platforms if developed. Besides, it lies only 18 nautical miles to the Atlantic Ocean and a strategic hub for the oil industry and inland dry-docks to promote trade.

This potential seaport has the capacity of handling over 35 per cent of marine business in Nigeria. As a matter of fact, it was the attraction to these potentials that made my administration in Imo state to site the Oguta Wonder Lake and Resort Centre in the area to encourage the federal government and foreign investors. If Ndigbo pursue and complete the seaport, it will also open up over 3,000 square kilometers of the most fertile agricultural land that has one of the highest alluvial deposits which has been in existence for well over a million years.

My pursuit of this revolutionary project attracted both national and international panic and may have cost me second tenure as governor (see “Demoracy By Military Tank” by Ethelbert Okere).

This deep seaport will create over two million jobs, directly and indirectly, in marine business, oil and gas, power, education, housing, agro-food industry, entertainment, tourism, etc. With that type of setting, Igbo youths will have no need to crisscross the country in search of jobs and in the process endangering their young lives.

Excerpts of his lecture delivered at the First International Chinua Achebe Conference held at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu State, on Tuesday 23 May, 2017.

Vaughanlanrewaj:

I don't think saying that the South East is landlocked like Lesotho is condescending or a matter that calls for argument or debate. It's just a reference to the geographical location of the zone taken out of context.
Below is the map, please use this map to show how the SE has access to the ocean.

gartamanta:


The map you are showing does not show the water ways of Nigeria, it doesnt even show the River Niger.

If you see a map of Nigeria's water ways, you would find out that Obeaku in Abia State and Oguta River in Imo state, empty into the Atlantic Ocean and River ports can be built there. Lets not forget that the narrow Suez Canal below handles far more Shipping than Nigeria. This one is even a canal and not a River

omonnakoda:
Canal? Why not educate yourself abut the geography of the Suez Canal before mis-yarning

gidgiddy:


Since you know that a canal can handle shipping and big ships, why the deceit that the SE is landlocked or needs coastline for shipping?

gidgiddy:


Since you know that a canal can handle shipping and big ships, why the deceit that the SE is landlocked or needs coastline for shipping?

MadelnNigeria:
You can go back and forth as much as you like. You can call the Yoruba' s *hegemony* as long as you like.
But the truth will always remain the same, South East is LANDLOCKED

In order for you to realize biafra, you will need the south south but they have made their stand clear that they are not interested. Why are they not interested? You might want to ask history.

What the south south tribes experienced under ojuwku /the Igbo during the Civil War is enough to know what will happen if the south south allows any Union with y'all

omonnakoda:


The SE is landlocked

Any potential pathway to the sea MUST pass through territory OUTSIDE the SE

Such territory is under no obligation to allow ships to pass through its territory

That is the point!!

omonnakoda:
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MadelnNigeria:

The House of Representatives, in July
2020, passed the National Water
Resources Bill, 2020, which seeks to
provide equitable and sustainable
development of water resources as well
as regulating its use, management and
conservation.

This bill bring all water
resources (surface and underground)
and the banks of water sources under
the control of the Federal Government
through its agencies to be established
by the Bill.

gidgiddy:


You are as ignorant as Buhari. Dont you know that if the


You are as ignorant as Buhari. Dont you know that if the South East becomes an independent country, it will have the power to invoke international law?

Article 125 of UNCLOS(United Nations Convention On Laws Of The Sea) says: Right of access to and from the sea and freedom of transit

1. Land-locked States shall have the right of access to and from the sea for the purpose of exercising the rights provided for in this Convention including those relating to the freedom of the high seas and the common heritage of mankind. To this end, land-locked States shall enjoy freedom oftransit through the territory of transit States by all means of transport.


Nigeria cannot stop the South East from using Obeaku River, or Oguta River, to import and export goods

omonnakoda:

So you admit it is landlocked?

That is the starting point before "INVOKING" any so called right

Abi?

So why are Mali and Niger not invoking this "right"

Does this "Right" prescribe HOW access is to be granted?
If SE is Landlocked by Nigeria

Nigeria well within its rights to grant access VIA LAGOS

You cannot dictate to anyone

gidgiddy:


You are as ignorant as Buhari. Dont you know that if the


You are as ignorant as Buhari. Dont you know that if the South East becomes an independent country, it will have the power to invoke international law?

Article 125 of UNCLOS(United Nations Convention On Laws Of The Sea) says: Right of access to and from the sea and freedom of transit

1. Land-locked States shall have the right of access to and from the sea for the purpose of exercising the rights provided for in this Convention including those relating to the freedom of the high seas and the common heritage of mankind. To this end, land-locked States shall enjoy freedom oftransit through the territory of transit States by all means of transport.


Nigeria cannot stop the South East from using Obeaku River, or Oguta River, to import and export goods

gidgiddy:


Being landlocked is not the issue, having access to the sea is the issue. The South East has access to sea via its water ways that are very close to the ocean

Why would Mali and Niger invoke that right? They are too far from the ocean for it to make any economic sense

naijapips02:


So in the event of a war, Nigeria will allow enemy ships pass through its water ways? Get the reference. Stop bleating like a goat.

slivertongue:


all of u calling for are kids. instead of projecting ur areas u are busy insulting ourselves to deceive the north. the north is wiser

MadelnNigeria:
They do not understand politics

You do not make everybody your enemy.
They'll call northerners poor, they'll call them almajiri, they'll call them all sort of names. They'll even go as far as wish Buhari dead or claim he is jubril al-sudani.

They'll call yourbas dirty, cowards, term them hegemony and cunny, yet you want them to support you politically and become a president. Politics doesn't work that way


I hope y'all now understand why the Nigerian Senate was pushing the water resources bill back in 2020

omonnakoda:
If we are honest with each other not enough has happened since 2015 to justify the stance of IPOB. Whatever it is IPOB is quarrelling with it did not start in 2015

Yes it is said that those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable

The question is has IPOB engaged any political methods e.g . contesting elections or canvassing elected officials?

To just wake up one day and start shouting Biafra is quite crazy.

Still if that is what Ibos want ...fine.


They need to go about it in a civilized and orderly way or take up arms