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Enough state is moving forward

Unbelievable! Governor Peter Mbah has reconstructed all the roads in Thinkers Corner within just a few months.
Quietly but steadily, the Mbah administration is transforming the entire Enugu metropolis with high-quality infrastructure. All streets in the capital city will be paved before the next election. After years of neglect, residents can once again take pride in living in a truly modern, forward-looking city.
After Enugu is done, we replicate same in Nsukka, Awgu, 9th Mile, Oji, Agbani and of course Ozalla Four Corners.
Tomorrow is here!
@prinnccejosh

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Wide, expansive boulevard into the New Enugu Smart City, a fully integrated smart corridor, engineered with underground drainage systems, embedded fibre-optic lines for high-speed connectivity, gas pipelines, central sewage, water distribution networks, pedestrian walkways, solar-powered street lighting, comprehensive CCTV surveillance, and thoughtfully designed green areas, landscaping, and beautification features.

Every detail reflects deliberate planning, global standards, enhanced safety, sustainability, and truly smart urban living.

Tomorrow is here!

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Good work sir,well don,let me go and see

Most active governor in the east

They want to choke us with"do quick" campaign like a man visiting brothel

What's the percentage of this Thinkers Corner to the entire Enugu state?

Propaganda everywhere....

I must confess, Governor Mbah is getting it right. I like forward thinking intelligent administrators. Kudos!

I won’t vote for him come 2027 if he continues to exclude Udi LGA in his agenda, though i blame stupid Sullivan the former governorof Enugu state the most

Tabithatim:
Enough state is moving forward


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Where are the pictures the old one and new ones because that is how Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State and his government used to lie about road in Ogun State awọn aláìní laakaye eda eniyan jatijati

Fake and lies 😤 big one ohhhh

These otimpus should stop with the cheap lies.
They forgot that all these stories they are peddling can be factchecked.

AMINDA:
I must confess, Governor Mbah is getting it right. I like forward thinking intelligent administrators. Kudos!

The man is not all he’s portrayed on social media.
The only project of value he embarked upon is the ICC hotel. The few roads he built in Enugu are substandard not likely to last for a year.
Till date the only governor that gave that state a facelift is former governor Sullivan Chime. The rest are the more you look the less you see.

Apc boys just Dey campaign for mbah.. Wetin happen 😂😂

Enugu has never had it this good. Governor Mbah is even constructing Emene streets. This has never happened before. This is the kind of governor you have, you are asked to pay taxes and you don't complain because you know where your money is going

II leaving in thinkers corner Enugu, while it’s true that there’s street pavement/ reconstruction currently ongoing there , it is completely false to say that he has reconstructed all the streets . Most of the streets are just newly graded

ratcock:
The man is not all he’s portrayed on social media.
The only project of value he embarked upon is the ICC hotel. The few roads he built in Enugu are substandard not likely to last for a year.
Till date the only governor that gave that state a facelift is former governor Sullivan Chime. The rest are the more you look the less you see.

Really? I remember Sullivan Chime. Another silent achiever. The East has had its fair share of very intelligent, astute administrators, especially Enugu state. Ugwanyi set the state backwards. If only someone had consolidated on Sullivan's strides in governance.

It remains the major road that connects the road going to Abakpa junction with the Airport road. This is the main tinkers corner road
Well done mr governor

Also your neglect of Nsukka township roads completely is not really a good one. This is the second city to Enugu. Some township roads there deserve attention. Its unfortunate that Nsukka politicians and house of assembly members are follow follow stupid politicians

Tabithatim:
Enough state is moving forward

Do you have a magic formula for using pictures of the road to pay for:

- children's school fees in private establishments
- refuse collection by private companies
- primary healthcare needs
- water supply

since the governor is failing, like other governors since 1999, to employ well paid civil servants to make these basic services and utilities available for every Enugu child and resident

Josh and Dan Nwome has taken this nonsense propaganda national like play like play

Within the thinkers corner, the street connecting GO University to Abakpa is one of the most important streets and has not been touched, there are so many street roads within thinkers corner that even if the governor concentrate only there, it will take his whole 8years to achieve 80% success.


Nonsense tax sucking Governor that thinks we are phuuls

Tabithatim:
Enough state is moving forward


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Where the pictures?
Audio roads

SmartPolician:
Enugu has never had it this good. Governor Mbah is even constructing Emene streets. This has never happened before. This is the kind of governor you have, you are asked to pay taxes and you don't complain because you know where your money is going

Some Enugu indigine are very ungrateful, they're still complaining of tax despite the good works this governor is doing for them.

Audio, that's audioly repaired.

Riskymarvelous:
Where are the pictures the old one and new ones because that is how Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State and his government used to lie about road in Ogun State awọn aláìní laakaye eda eniyan jatijati

That one has been a disgraceful disappointment in all sectors, especially free basic education in Awolowo's state despite PDP's matching funds through UBEC for nine years free and compulsory education of all children.

UBEC that was established in 1999 by the Obasanjo/Atiku administration.

Uncompleted projects, dilapidated classrooms litter Ogun despite N10.2 billion rehabilitation

PREMIUM TIMES visited schools that the state government claimed to have rehabilitated and found decrepit and inadequate facilities.

January 8, 2023

Governor Dapo Abiodun said last year that over 400 primary and secondary schools have been renovated in Ogun State under his administration.

However, when PREMIUM TIMES late in 2022 toured the three senatorial districts of the state, our reporter found facilities in many public schools still in deplorable conditions.

The renovation project was executed with a N10.2 billion fund jointly contributed, equally, by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the state government.

UBEC released its share of the fund to the state government in 2019 to address infrastructural decay and inadequate facilities in 236 public schools across the state.


PREMIUM TIMES found that in many schools captured under the rehabilitation project, the exercise has either not been completed or started at all. All the schools mentioned in this report are those the Abiodun administration listed as schools it has renovated.

The rehabilitated blocks of classrooms all had yellow roofs, the signature of the Dapo Abiodun administration.


Cracked walls, leaky roofs
At the St Joseph RCM Primary school in the Ayila area of Ogun Waterside Local Government Area, pupils were attending classes in uncompleted buildings with cracked walls and leaking roofs. Because chairs and desks were insufficient, some pupils sat on the bare floor.

One of the two buildings in the school looked like it could collapse anytime. “We cannot abandon it because we don’t have an alternative,” a teacher told PREMIUM TIMES.

The teacher said classes are suspended whenever it rains, because of the leaky roofs and low walls.

“When it rains, there is no class because all the pupils need to be moved to the two classes that are still manageable,” the teacher said.

Toye, one of the pupils, said he wants the government to repair and upgrade the school.

Gboko community in Ketu, Yewa North Local Government Area, has only one primary school. The mud-walled school has no teachers.

A block of three classrooms built as part of the UBEC project reportedly collapsed following heavy rainfall. It was after the incident that members of the community pooled resources together to build the mud-walled classrooms in 2021.

To accommodate all the pupils in the makeshift building, the junior classes were merged into a single class, while classes five and six shared another classroom.

The Chairman of the school’s Parents/ Teachers Association (PTA), Fakonbi Paul, said the school management wrote the government for another block of classrooms but there had been no response.

“The building was a UBEC project, it collapsed after heavy rain last year (2021). We wrote to the government but nothing was done. When we saw that nothing was forthcoming, the community decided to construct this mould blocks classroom with the assistance of our Kabiyesi (traditional ruler).”

“Goats, hens and dogs enter our classrooms because there are no doors or windows,” a Primary Four pupil told our reporter.

“Whenever we arrive every morning, we sweep the faeces of the animals in the classrooms. That is the instruction our teacher gave us,” the pupil added.

The situation is similar at Yewa North Local Government Primary School, Kakanfo. The few classrooms built have no windows or doors.

Abiodun Michael, a parent whose children attend the school, said pupils are usually sent home whenever it is about to rain because the classroom roofs are broken.

“The roofs have been broken for a long time and left like that,” Mr Micheal said.

District High School, Agosasa, also had classrooms with leaky roofs and cracked walls. These features seem to be shared by all public basic schools in the area.

Same situation in the capital Abeokuta

The state government listed Owu Baptist school, Ita-Iyalode in Oke-Shokori/Totoro ward, as one of the schools where classrooms were built or renovated. But our reporter found during a visit to the school that the project was abandoned.

The scaffold installed for the plastering of the wall still surrounded the building but some of the planks had decayed.

A worker in the school, who simply identified himself as Baba Jamiu, said the project had been abandoned for many months before the visit of the reporter.

However, he said the yet-to-be-completed classrooms, which were under lock and key during our reporter’s visit, were already being used.

“Leaving the scaffolding after plastering is dangerous. They don’t have any usefulness, but the contractor has refused to come and remove them.
Pupils are already using the classroom that way because we don’t have enough classrooms.

“The contractor was to plaster and paint the building, but they abandoned their work halfway, which is really bad,” he said.

The situation is not different at AUD Primary School, Ikatedo in Ago-Ika ward of Abeokuta North local council. A large building marked for rehabilitation but abandoned has become an abode for smokers around the area.

Residents said the renovation was started in 2019 but nothing new has been done to it in the last two years.

Around the school compound, the reporter found the roofs of many classrooms damaged. The structure of the buildings looks weak, while the environment generally seems not conducive to teaching and learning.

The government also claimed to have rehabilitated some classrooms at St. Peter’s College in the town. While the entire ceiling of one of the classrooms was replaced, work on those of other classrooms was not completed.

A block of four classrooms has a yellow roof, but the walls were not plastered and it has no windows. The building does not look like one where work was ongoing.

A worker who took this reporter around the school refused to give his name for fear of sanction by the authorities. He said the building has been completed despite not being plastered and not having windows.

Budgetary allocation to education sector

In December 2021, Governor Abiodun signed the N338.6 billion 2022 budget of the state and later adopted a 2022 Supplementary budget of N100.2 billion in August 2022.

In the initial budget, N56.07 billion was allocated to the education sector. N529.1 million out of that was for the maintenance of public schools; secondary education got N22.9 billion while primary education got N3.2 billion under the category of total expenditure by functional classification.

In 2022, the state’s total budget stood at N350.74 billion. Education had the second-highest estimate of N56,071 billion or 16 per cent of the total estimated budget. The lion’s share went to Infrastructure which gulped N77.8 billion, constituting 22 per cent of the total budget.

For the 2023 fiscal year, the governor voted N66.79 billion for education, representing 14 per cent of the total budget of N472 billion.

However, many residents still hope to see the impacts of these funds on the dilapidated schools in the state.

The Ogun State Commissioner for Education, Abayomi Arigbabu, did not respond to repeated calls and text messages to his phone for his comments on issues raised in this report.

But at a briefing in September 2022, Mr Arigbabu said infrastructural decay at schools predated the current administration when contacted, the spokesperson of UBEC, David Apeh, refused to respond to questions on the matter, especially on whether UBEC is monitoring the use of its funds by the Ogun government.


When first called over the phone on a Tuesday, Mr Apeh asked this reporter to call back on Wednesday.

When called according to his dictate, the spokesperson asked this reporter to call again after two hours but since then, he has refused to pick up calls nor respond to text messages.

An email sent to the official email address of UBEC was also not replied to.



https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/574465-uncompleted-projects-dilapidated-classrooms-litter-ogun-despite-n10-2-billion-rehabilitation.html?tztc=1

Audio roads from a propaganda governor

Most active...? That should be Abia State Governor Alex Otti...

medolab90:
Most active governor in the east

Kudos to the Governor.
But the main, the main thinkers corner roads are still not constructed, he's just constricting where he feels will get more tax, the main thinkers corner is still untarred.
For instance the road leading from thinker's corner bustop to the road that burst at Abakpa road is an eye sore and hinder movement, and the road provides an alternative route for motorists in case if heavy traffic at Abakpa junction. The old airport road leading to the emene road is not good at all especially the spot Policemen normally stay for stop and search extortion. Also the right side of the thinkers corner area if you are heading to emene are still not attended to.

APC governors are always good.

They don't make noise too.

AmishaCandra:
Most active...? That should be Abia State Governor Alex Otti...

you mean the noisiest?

If he decamps to APC now, you will call him the worst.

gogo2479:
II leaving in thinkers corner Enugu, while it’s true that there’s street pavement/ reconstruction currently ongoing there , it is completely false to say that he has reconstructed all the streets . Most of the streets are just newly graded

You're right. He just grade the roads since he came to power and left it, and dust is killing people there. APC and lies are 5&6.

Do not allow this amuneke of a character deceive you. He’s not an extraordinary governor like Otti.
He’s just an average governor.

Whynotthetruth:
What's the percentage of this Thinkers Corner to the entire Enugu state?

Propaganda everywhere....

I've always known that I would always see people like you on this thread. People that are never satisfied with anything. The government works and talk about it, you call it propaganda. If they don't, you say they're not performing.

Any sensible government just needs to ignore people like you and just continue to do their things because dissatisfaction is in your DNA.

I'm not even from the South East but I see what their governors have been doing lately and I'm happy because I appreciate good things. Governor Mbah has been really trying and God will continue to help him to do more.

It's like Apc have put lies in his tongue