ebufa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHWmfRX7dKs




Talking of re-developing the Awka Town market......may we borrow a leaf from the Kejetia central market in Kumasi..........a modern spin on the Onitsha main market built in the 1960s........Truth be told decades of retrogressive military and fulani rule has stagnated regional initiatives in real development. Nigeria and especially Ndigbo have lost the plot absolutely.........projects are ill conceived and even in the rare cases projects are well conceived they are shabbily executed! we need to up our game ....and fast too!

OreMI22:


The ONLY Governors in the Southeast with the boldness and vision to build this type of ultra-modern market are Obiano and Umahi. The rest are small-time village champions that talk way too much and deliver next to nothing to match their plentiful empty words.

The problem with the Southeast today is that we have watered down the standards so badly. For instance, in the 1950s & 1960s, even as regional premiers, you would see Zik or Michael Okpara invite world-class architects to build standard universities or other infrastructure because they really wanted to compete with the very best globally. Today's southeast leaders have no such visions to do anything outstanding EXCEPT Obiano and Umahi that tried to build facilities that rose above the normal mediocre shoddy village standard of Southeast governors' projects.

Since Anambra's comparative advantage is in the area of Trade & Commerce if we could have a new Anambra international market located somewhere between Awka to Onitsha Expressway, which would be massive, extremely well-planned, better and more modern than Onitsha main market built in the 1960s, and ensure it has ample parking spaces for both traders and visitors to the market. Such a facility can quadruple the GDP of Anambra while creating new job opportunities and wealth for millions of people. But of course, we no longer have Governors who dream such big dreams anymore and have the true commitment and capacity to pursue their dream to fruition. That is why Umahi and Obiano would continue to be landmark periods in Southeast history when Governors that dared to have big dreams and pursue them to logical fruition led their people into a new era that was better than what they met.

OreMI22:


The ONLY Governors in the Southeast with the boldness and vision to build this type of ultra-modern market are Obiano and Umahi. The rest are small-time village champions that talk way too much and deliver next to nothing to match their plentiful empty words.

The problem with the Southeast today is that we have watered down the standards so badly. For instance, in the 1950s & 1960s, even as regional premiers, you would see Zik or Michael Okpara invite world-class architects to build standard universities or other infrastructure because they really wanted to compete with the very best globally. Today's southeast leaders have no such visions to do anything outstanding EXCEPT Obiano and Umahi that tried to build facilities that rose above the normal mediocre shoddy village standard of Southeast governors' projects.

Since Anambra's comparative advantage is in the area of Trade & Commerce if we could have a new Anambra international market located somewhere between Awka to Onitsha Expressway, which would be massive, extremely well-planned, better and more modern than Onitsha main market built in the 1960s, and ensure it has ample parking spaces for both traders and visitors to the market. Such a facility can quadruple the GDP of Anambra while creating new job opportunities and wealth for millions of people. But of course, we no longer have Governors who dream such big dreams anymore and have the true commitment and capacity to pursue their dream to fruition. That is why Umahi and Obiano would continue to be landmark periods in Southeast history when Governors that dared to have big dreams and pursue them to logical fruition led their people into a new era that was better than what they met.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNhTS4tXeL8&t=585s

ChimaAdeoye:




Well, Soludo is aggressively tackling the dearth of road infrastructure in the state. My hope is that he means it and not doing so merely for elections. If Soludo is able to tackle the issue of bad roads in Anambra cities as well as build a world-class international market or modular refinery near the airport, he would have contributed immensely to the future greatness of the state.

My only concern is for Soludo to forget politics for now and face his work! Las las, he will be judged by what he was able to achieve NOT what he said or didn't say. I pray for him to remain 100% focused on his work and deliver good governance to many many people that fervently hoped for him to succeed in delivering the dividends of infrastructural transformation of the state.

HE MUST NOT BE DISTRACTED BY ABUJA POLITICS AND FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8c6nT8rq2U

wizzyvibes:
Lol. Y'all amaze me when you compare umahi to obiano. Obiano is not even close to what umahi achieved in ebonyi. If it is the shoddy construction of the airport or the 3 flyovers that has constantly needed maintenance in just six years of construction that is making you say all these. Oga , please keep quiet. Obiano did rubbish in Anambra. We went back at least 10 years behind during obiano's rule. Don't come here to cap abeg.

Cjrane2:


Nwokem, without diminishing Umahi's excellent projects,, Obiano performed way better than Umahi.

Apart from Obiano's physical infrastructural projects, he heavily invested in human resources improvement and poverty alleviation projects to reduce poverty in Anambra.

Conversely Umahi used money which could have been wisely invested in education, agriculture and Healthcare to build too many flyovers at irrelevant junctions. This is not to say his countless multicolored flyovers are a bad thing. But if you consider that he ruled the state with the worst poverty in Southern Nigeria and one of the least human development index in Nigeria, his multicolored flyovers where there were no traffic becomes a tragic misuse of public wealth. While we have praised Umahi for doing many concrete roads to ease accessibility to rural parts of Ebonyi state. I believe the money he spent on too many flyovers where there were no traffic gridlock as a tragic waste of precious state resources.

Unike Wike that also built multiple flyovers because he ruled a state with serious traffic problems and relatively more wealthy citizens. Umahi had no such problems. Yet he acted like he had some inferiority complex that flyovers were a symbol of development and to prove Ebonyi was developed he had to have more flyovers. Thus he went on a flyover building spree while other areas of human development suffered.. Umahi's only useful projects are the concrete roads, Abakaliki mall and airport. Even at that it is questionable if those projects will be viable due to the crushing poverty rate in his state. That is why I praise Umahi and bash him sometimes for doing nothing on the poverty alleviation front.Overall I rate Umahi as a great transformative governor, but he could easily have been the greatest Igbo governor since 1999 and done better on all fronts not just on physical infrastructure, and thus be rated as a well rounded governor.

Cjrane2:


Nwokem, without diminishing Umahi's excellent projects,, Obiano performed way better than Umahi.

Apart from Obiano's physical infrastructural projects, he heavily invested in human resources improvement and poverty alleviation projects to reduce poverty in Anambra.

Conversely Umahi used money which could have been wisely invested in education, agriculture and Healthcare to build too many flyovers at irrelevant junctions. This is not to say his countless multicolored flyovers are a bad thing. But if you consider that he ruled the state with the worst poverty in Southern Nigeria and one of the least human development index in Nigeria, his multicolored flyovers where there were no traffic becomes a tragic misuse of public wealth. While we have praised Umahi for doing many concrete roads to ease accessibility to rural parts of Ebonyi state. I believe the money he spent on too many flyovers where there were no traffic gridlock as a tragic waste of precious state resources.

Unike Wike that also built multiple flyovers because he ruled a state with serious traffic problems and relatively more wealthy citizens. Umahi had no such problems. Yet he acted like he had some inferiority complex that flyovers were a symbol of development and to prove Ebonyi was developed he had to have more flyovers. Thus he went on a flyover building spree while other areas of human development suffered.. Umahi's only useful projects are the concrete roads, Abakaliki mall and airport. Even at that it is questionable if those projects will be viable due to the crushing poverty rate in his state. That is why I praise Umahi and bash him sometimes for doing nothing on the poverty alleviation front.Overall I rate Umahi as a great transformative governor, but he could easily have been the greatest Igbo governor since 1999 and done better on all fronts not just on physical infrastructure, and thus be rated as a well rounded governor.

TabletMan:
What are the poverty alleviation projects done by Obiano?

Cjrane2:


Without even mentioning any of Obiano physical infrastructure as bridges, malls, hotels, airports, roads, intl. conference center and flyovers, let's just look at his Human Development efforts and poverty reduction strategies and achievements. That is where he beat Dave Umahi hands down. Imagine that Obiano somehow even managed to get Anambra to become one of the biggest rice producers in Nigeria! He managed to find ways of stimulating economic growth in almost forgotten communities by building some type of community project in every community and using their own people as the construction folks. So that the money reflates the economy of the community. Umahi only did community projects in his own Uburu and nowhere else in the vast rural communities of Ebonyi state.

By direct comparison to Obiano's efforts in poverty reduction, Umahi has done nothing to directly create jobs for the Ebonyi youths to create a skills acquisition center to empower Ebonyi youths with a trade skill for them to be self-employed. Umahi has not made any effort whatsoever to improve Ebonyi's agricultural advantage or to foster the industrialization of Ebonyi state by providing well-equipped industrial estates to incentivize the setting up of agro-processing factories in his state. All of which would have greatly reduced the crushing poverty rate in his state. Again, I appreciate that Umahi did a lot of flyover bridges, but I have mixed feelings every time I see Ebonyi's poverty rate being worse than the poverty rate in even far northern states! It is an abomination to see such a poverty rate in Igboland and the governor only concentrates on building flyovers to compete with Rivers state!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x23TvHhEYx4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCLdyXOMSvQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjIqBucSHBI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20dxQQfrRoo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW2ylIecjSM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm6TEwFgXrg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijC2ioDoq4g


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azPXvIvKFo0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_8_ieisMk

TabletMan:
The only positive thing you said done by Obiano is Pick your community project initiative because it helps spreads development to every community.

wizzyvibes:
Lol. Y'all amaze me when you compare umahi to obiano. Obiano is not even close to what umahi achieved in ebonyi. If it is the shoddy construction of the airport or the 3 flyovers that has constantly needed maintenance in just six years of construction that is making you say all these. Oga , please keep quiet. Obiano did rubbish in Anambra. We went back at least 10 years behind during obiano's rule. Don't come here to cap abeg.

Cjrane2:


Nwokem, without diminishing Umahi's excellent projects,, Obiano performed way better than Umahi.

Apart from Obiano's physical infrastructural projects, he heavily invested in human resources improvement and poverty alleviation projects to reduce poverty in Anambra.

Conversely Umahi used money which could have been wisely invested in education, agriculture and Healthcare to build too many flyovers at irrelevant junctions. This is not to say his countless multicolored flyovers are a bad thing. But if you consider that he ruled the state with the worst poverty in Southern Nigeria and one of the least human development index in Nigeria, his multicolored flyovers where there were no traffic becomes a tragic misuse of public wealth. While we have praised Umahi for doing many concrete roads to ease accessibility to rural parts of Ebonyi state. I believe the money he spent on too many flyovers where there were no traffic gridlock as a tragic waste of precious state resources.

Unike Wike that also built multiple flyovers because he ruled a state with serious traffic problems and relatively more wealthy citizens. Umahi had no such problems. Yet he acted like he had some inferiority complex that flyovers were a symbol of development and to prove Ebonyi was developed he had to have more flyovers. Thus he went on a flyover building spree while other areas of human development suffered.. Umahi's only useful projects are the concrete roads, Abakaliki mall and airport. Even at that it is questionable if those projects will be viable due to the crushing poverty rate in his state. That is why I praise Umahi and bash him sometimes for doing nothing on the poverty alleviation front.Overall I rate Umahi as a great transformative governor, but he could easily have been the greatest Igbo governor since 1999 and done better on all fronts not just on physical infrastructure, and thus be rated as a well rounded governor.

investnow2013:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6fV66WsPTM

investnow2013:
Eke Awka Road Encroachment Challenge By Traders Appears To Have Been Solved

Driving through Eke Awka market in Anambra state has always been nightmarish because of the heavy traffic caused majorly by motorists packing illegally, and traders displaying their wares by the roadside.

With this newly constructed barricade, that problem appears to have been solved. Hopefully, OCHA Brigade and the market leadership will help enforce and ensure that traders and buyers don’t breach the barricade.

Rocksvibes234:
Today we activated the process of transforming Ekwulobia into a model city. I have flagged off the construction of a fly-over, a modern bus terminal, adjoining roads, security building, a fire Station amongst others, in the area.

This signposts our deliberate desire to reposition Ekwulobia as a fast emerging urban Centre.

Upon completion, this project will bring about ease of movement from Anambra into Imo State through the Uga-Akokwa corridor.

The project is handled by a reputable Company - AG Vision Construction Limited. The flyover which is about 300 meters long will span from Nanka to Uga. It is also about 5.4 meters tall, and is expected to be delivered in the next 18months.

Anambra will surely win!

CC. Soludo CFR.

investnow2013:
EKWULOBIA FLYOVER & MODERN BUS TERMINALS




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd97I2IwhUI



Today we activated the process of transforming Ekwulobia into a model city. I have flagged off the construction of a fly-over, a modern bus terminal, adjoining roads, security building, a fire Station amongst others, in the area.

This signposts our deliberate desire to reposition Ekwulobia as a fast emerging urban Centre.

Upon completion, this project will bring about ease of movement from Anambra into Imo State through the Uga-Akokwa corridor.

The project is handled by a reputable Company - AG Vision Construction Limited. The flyover which is about 300 meters long will span from Nanka to Uga. It is also about 5.4 meters tall, and is expected to be delivered in the next 18months.

Anambra will surely win!

CC. Soludo CFR.

pandax:

Beautiful idea to construct a flyover at that location, but single lane overpass design as can be seen from the enclosed picture will not be fit-for-purpose in future, I am not impressed. CFC and even Rumola Flyovers at PH had a similar design limitations until Wike dualized the flyovers.

investnow2013:
EKWULOBIA FLYOVER & MODERN BUS TERMINALS




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd97I2IwhUI



Today we activated the process of transforming Ekwulobia into a model city. I have flagged off the construction of a fly-over, a modern bus terminal, adjoining roads, security building, a fire Station amongst others, in the area.

This signposts our deliberate desire to reposition Ekwulobia as a fast emerging urban Centre.

Upon completion, this project will bring about ease of movement from Anambra into Imo State through the Uga-Akokwa corridor.

The project is handled by a reputable Company - AG Vision Construction Limited. The flyover which is about 300 meters long will span from Nanka to Uga. It is also about 5.4 meters tall, and is expected to be delivered in the next 18months.

Anambra will surely win!

CC. Soludo CFR.

investnow2013:
EKWULOBIA FLYOVER & MODERN BUS TERMINALS




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd97I2IwhUI



Today we activated the process of transforming Ekwulobia into a model city. I have flagged off the construction of a fly-over, a modern bus terminal, adjoining roads, security building, a fire Station amongst others, in the area.

This signposts our deliberate desire to reposition Ekwulobia as a fast emerging urban Centre.

Upon completion, this project will bring about ease of movement from Anambra into Imo State through the Uga-Akokwa corridor.

The project is handled by a reputable Company - AG Vision Construction Limited. The flyover which is about 300 meters long will span from Nanka to Uga. It is also about 5.4 meters tall, and is expected to be delivered in the next 18months.

Anambra will surely win!

CC. Soludo CFR.

abuzz33:
Amendments Passed by Buhari devolving power from Federal to States and my opinion on what Anambra/SE should do:

AIRPORTS
Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 29 (Devolution of Powers (Airports)
This bill seeks to move the item “airports” from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent legislative list.

Anambra has an airport and the question is whether moving it to the concurrent legislative list allows Anambra to set taxes such as the Passenger Service Charge which is an abysmal N2,000 per passenger meaning that with 200,000 avg passengers a year the passenger tax revenue of the airport will be just 400 million naira barely enough to sustain the airport. To enable the airport to be financially self-sustaining the PSC must rise by at least 500% . Other fees like aircraft landing fees, car park fees, concession fees contribute less than 10% to domestic airport revenue.

CORRECTIONAL SERVICES
Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 31 (Devolution of Powers (Correctional Services)
This bill seeks to delete the item “prisons” from the exclusive legislative list and redesignate it as “correctional services” in the concurrent legislative list.

This is a good measure because Nigerian prisons are overcrowded and often the innocent are jailed along with the guilty. The state should endeavour to build correctional facilities particularly in remote towns. The state should use prisoners as cheap labour for things like farming, clearing of gutters..

RAILWAYS
Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 32 (Devolution of Powers (Railways)
The bill seeks to move the item “railways” from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent legislative list.

Anambra along with Enugu, Imo, Abia and Rivers should aim to build a rail line connecting Enugu, Awka, Onitsha, Owerri, Aba and Port Harcourt along the axis. Passengers, Containers, Fuel and Vehicles can be moved between the states easily. For passengers, rail will open up safer travel between Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Abia and Rivers

POWER
Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 33 (Devolution of Powers) (National Grid System)
This bill seeks to delete after the word, “areas”, the words, “not covered by a national grid system” in the concurrent legislative list. This will allow states to generate, transmit and distribute electricity in areas covered by the national grid within their respective domains.

Anambra can use this law to generate constant power for industrial layouts and government facilities without the need for EEDC and the limitations of grid allocation.

abuzz33:

investnow2013:
ACTDA Begins Demolition of Illegal structures Obstructing road construction

By Chinelo Ajulufo

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Awka Capital Territory Development Authority (ACTDA)Mr Ossy Onuko has reiterated his resolve and commitment towards transforming Awka Capital Territory to a Mega City.


The ACTDA Helmsman said this today at Unizik temporary Site road Awka, during the demolition of illegal structures standing in the way of achieving a standard road befitting a State Capital.

Mr Onuko said this has become necessary because those buildings are delaying the pace of developing the road.

In his speech, the Chief of Staff to the State Government,Mr Ernest Ezeajughi who appreciated the efforts of ACTDA Boss in ensuring smooth Construction of a dual carriage road also noted that the construction of the dual carriage road will open up the city, adding that at the completion of the road project, residents within Awka Capital Territory and Ndi Anambra will appreciate the State Government.

In reaction, Miss Chinwend Orji, a petty trader at Unizik junction said it is a welcome development, adding that they have been served several vacation notices by the Authority,MOI.