₦airaland Forum

Abagworo:
Look at how empty Obudu and TINAPA look. The arguments are unnecessary as no one has argued about the billions of Dollars invested by Donald Duke Government but the problem is low patronage. In as much as Owerri has better and higher budget Hotels than Calabar(Metropolitan is not up to Concorde or Rockview) Calabar has more natural and artificial tourist attractions. However the god of tourism seems to have favored Owerri in patronage.


https://www.nairaland.com/1424380/what-happened-tinapa/1

https://www.nairaland.com/101617/tinapa-dead

http://africanheraldexpress.com/blog8/2015/09/20/cross-river-tinapa-and-matters-arising/

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/articles-opinions/new-governors-please-beware-of-tinapa/

stop the envy, calabar is the biggest thing to happen to tourism followed by uyo my city. owerri has mainly low budget hotels. calabar receives most of the international and national visitors all year round. go to calabar now, you will see white tourists just like you will see black people all moving freely on the streets and enjoying themselves.

this is what tourism entails not low budget hotels. this is crossriver the capital of tourism in the subsaharan africa

I wrote these and you can see how my view changed. As at the time I wrote the 1st one, things were better but by 2015 it has changed. The reason is because Calabar is at a dead end of Nigeria and the Jonathan government paid no attention to its access roads.

https://www.nairaland.com/566777/guys-what-happened-tinapa

Abagworo:
Look before you leap for you have made a very ignorant ethnic remark.

Calabar is an Efik city while Port Harcourt is majority Ikwerre-a sub-Igbo and partly Okrika-a sub-Ijaw.(Just a correction)

As for Tinapa,it is up and bubbling.Try to visit and you will not get any space because the accomodation in Calabar and environs is already exhausted.

We should always look beyond this issue of accusing Igbos of trying to claim a place simply because they feel at home wherever they reside in Nigeria.It should have been appreciated as a good step for all Nigerians to follow for this country to be truly united.

https://www.nairaland.com/2601520/buhari-flags-off-highway-project

Abagworo:
This highway promised by FG is the highway I've been writing about that killed Tinapa and Obudu. You can drive on a smooth road from Uyo to Itu.

Abagworo:
I wrote these

https://www.nairaland.com/566777/guys-what-happened-tinapa

https://www.nairaland.com/2601520/buhari-flags-off-highway-project

bro, i know how you feel but this is the real tourism and not those low budget jammed hotels.

whites are all over crossriver. we have no competitor in this field

ekafine:
bro, i know how you feel but this is the real tourism and not those low budget jammed hotels.

Chino I did not write those responses because of you but because of the real Calabar people that might have misjudged our arguments. I owe you no response any further. Go and comment on the recently commissioned uncompleted flyover.

this is tourism mehn

Afam4eva:
Is that in Calabar. I don't know why some of you just choose to be illiterate. It seems you don't know the difference between Calabar and Cross River state.

Also, many Imo people also refuse to differentiate between Owerri and Imo state.

Many Imo people even celebrate as Owerri is being made the ONLY HABITABLE TOWN in Imo state, while Okigwe, Orlu and other once bubbling towns in Imo state are being overtaken by dust and weeds.

Abagworo:
Chino I did not write those responses because of you but because of the real Calabar people that might have misjudged our arguments. I owe you no response any further. Go and comment on the recently commissioned uncompleted flyover.

stop calling me chino becos i am not chino. calling me chino will not stop me from saying the truth. you cannot subdue my spirit by calling me chino. i registered nairaland in september so i hardly know who is even chino

Why has governor Okorocha chose to make Owerri the only place he can provide with development infrastructure since 2013, more so, since the time Okorocha joined APC?

Why can't I have a time out with my family without some people particularly the hopeless jobless old unmarried dirty man called abagworo calling me out.

I have warned you earlier to mind your useless and worthless Imo state because I have nothing in common you and your people therefore I cannot be interested in your silly bankrupt state. I don't comment on NL anymore except to monitor your comments and treat it accordingly as it affects my own state. Face these people for once and stop mentioning me or get a life outside NL for once! It's because you hate the truth little wonder you attack anybody that tells you the truth. You like to live in denial even when the truth about your pariah and worthless state of Imo is staring you in the face.

For goodness sake I have been hopping around with my family visiting friends and families until I stopped to check NL. Afam, even you, I thought you are more than this?

What is all these about me? Now abagworo mention my name on this thread again then you know.

mandax:
Why has governor Okorocha chose to make Owerri the only place he can provide with development infrastructure since 2013, more so, since the time Okorocha joined APC?

I will never give your nonsense writings any response again. I just realised you are a Jonathanian and I don't value such brainless people. Don't ever quote me again. I am for Buhari and wherever he goes. Oil and water don't mix just like a meek and drunkard can't share same ideology.

Owerri Nigeria.

Abagworo:
I will never give your nonsense writings any response again. I just realised you are a Jonathanian and I don't value such brainless people. Don't ever quote me again. I am for Buhari and wherever he goes. Oil and water don't mix just like a meek and drunkard can't share same ideology.

You paid propagandist. You refuse to answer to why your principal, Gov. Okorocha, made Imo state to be only Owerri since he joined APC.

Instead you went for insulting, as usual.

mandax:
Why has governor Okorocha chose to make Owerri the only place he can provide with development infrastructure since 2013, more so, since the time Okorocha joined APC?

But Mandax, inasmuch as you've always tried to point out Orlu's abandonment to a relative level, I still think you're taking this matter too far.
If I may ask, are you not happy that Owelle for the first time in Imo history decided to spread development to other interior parts of Imo state than the traditional Owerri, Okigwe and Orlu. From what we've seen so far, even though some of the projects have been left to rot, Rochas turned about 7 towns into new cities.
My part of Umuaka and other areas like Orieubi, Anara and others were given some sort of urban restructuring by this same government. New roads interlinking other inner towns (although unfinished were connected to my Akah city. The Owerri-Orlu road was dualized and a new bridge constructed across the Njaba river. We had new rows of shopping complex at Afor Umuakah, a new General hospital at Okwudor and a mapped out new stadium to be constructed at central school Akah.
Other new cities as well as other communities felt one presence of Owelle's touch in one way or the other. From the triangular shape of the new cities and a further push of the Owerri boundaries to the interior, one would see that the future plan of the state government is to convert the whole Imo into a metropolis by pushing the urbanisation of Owerri to directly connect with other satellite towns and into established areas like Orlu, Mbaise and Okigwe. So, from this act alone it is evident that your Governor deserves some form of commendation.
However, my grouse with Rochas is that he seems not to be bothered with the criticisms of his first tenure and keeps repeating them.

@Abagworo

Imagine what that Owerri shall become if one tenth of Imo state people go to live in it due to absence of modern infrastructure outside Owerri? It shall become a ghetto.

Point to any other project started or completed outside Owerri since Okorocha joined APC.

Must we all be stupid in shouting Owerri, Owerri when the rest of Imo state outside Owerri is denied any development infrastructure in the last three years?
An Okigwe or Orlu person can never tell you he/she is from Owerri.

Okorocha is creating huge problems by ignoring the cries from Okigwe, Orlu, and rest of Imo state whom he has been punishing through scrapped and abandoned roads since he joined APC.


When push comes to shove soon, Abagworo shall be laughing by the side, but later lose job.

After all, there is supposed to be a limit to the amount of hardship Okorocha made and imposed upon people here - people who made him governor with their own votes.

Chiwude:
But Mandax, inasmuch as you've always tried to point out Orlu's abandonment to a relative level, I still think you're taking this matter too far.
If I may ask, are you not happy that Owelle for the first time in Imo history decided to spread development to other interior parts of Imo state than the traditional Owerri, Okigwe and Orlu. From what we've seen so far, even though some of the projects have been left to rot, Rochas turned about 7 towns into new cities.
My part of Umuaka and other areas like Orieubi, Anara and others were given some sort of urban restructuring by this same government. New roads interlinking other inner towns (although unfinished were connected to my Akah city. The Owerri-Orlu road was dualized and a new bridge constructed across the Njaba river. We had new rows of shopping complex at Afor Umuakah, a new General hospital at Okwudor and a mapped out new stadium to be constructed at central school Akah.
Other new cities as well as other communities felt one presence of Owelle's touch in one way or the other. From the triangular shape of the new cities and a further push of the Owerri boundaries to the interior, one would see that the future plan of the state government is to convert the whole Imo into a metropolis by pushing the urbanisation of Owerri to directly connect with other satellite towns and into established areas like Orlu, Mbaise and Okigwe. So, from this act alone it is evident that your Governor deserves some form of commendation.
However, my grouse with Rochas is that he seems not to be bothered with the criticisms of his first tenure and keeps repeating them.

I like truthful criticism. Okorocha built mostly cheap roads in the rural areas which will not stand taste of time and 2ndly he has his billboards everywhere. I often try to calculate the cost of erecting those hundreds of billboards. Those close to him should advice him to remove most of those billboards as they suggest self praise. He should do less roads this time around and focus more on quality than quantity thats all.

Chiwude:
But Mandax, inasmuch as you've always tried to point out Orlu's abandonment to a relative level, I still think you're taking this matter too far.
If I may ask, are you not happy that Owelle for the first time in Imo history decided to spread development to other interior parts of Imo state than the traditional Owerri, Okigwe and Orlu. From what we've seen so far, even though some of the projects have been left to rot, Rochas turned about 7 towns into new cities.
My part of Umuaka and other areas like Orieubi, Anara and others were given some sort of urban restructuring by this same government. New roads interlinking other inner towns (although unfinished were connected to my Akah city. The Owerri-Orlu road was dualized and a new bridge constructed across the Njaba river. We had new rows of shopping complex at Afor Umuakah, a new General hospital at Okwudor and a mapped out new stadium to be constructed at central school Akah.
Other new cities as well as other communities felt one presence of Owelle's touch in one way or the other. From the triangular shape of the new cities and a further push of the Owerri boundaries to the interior, one would see that the future plan of the state government is to convert the whole Imo into a metropolis by pushing the urbanisation of Owerri to directly connect with other satellite towns and into established areas like Orlu, Mbaise and Okigwe. So, from this act alone it is evident that your Governor deserves some form of commendation.
However, my grouse with Rochas is that he seems not to be bothered with the criticisms of his first tenure and keeps repeating them.

U need to understand:
The old Orlu-Owerri road - that starts from Orlu stadium through Umuowa to Y-junction. This road served a large number of business, including the international market and the teaching hospital as well as having about tens of thousands of people living on both sides of the road. How on earth could a governor of a state scrape the road and leave it for four years going?

There are other roads scrapped. Orlu is going gradually empty because people emigrate daily from here in the last four years.

Owerri can become New York overnight, New towns are worth springing up in Imo state, that's development se crave;

but people in Orlu must not be made to die in mass from lung diseases from scrapped roads that is the complaint.

If Okorocha government is not deliberately allowing the decadence in Orlu, he could have covered this all important road with asphalt. Note, I don't live or do business along that road, but I know that any government that allows this road remain like this for four years but is building new roads where no body lives in the capital city is on a wrong cause

Abagworo:
I like truthful criticism. Okorocha built mostly cheap roads in the rural areas which will not stand taste of time and 2ndly he has his billboards everywhere. I often try to calculate the cost of erecting those hundreds of billboards. Those close to him should advice him to remove most of those billboards as they suggest self praise. He should do less roads this time around and focuvs more on quality than quantity thats all.

Objective comment Abagworo. Hmm!

@Mandax, I agree that the old Orlu road needs immediate attention by the government. I was totally against the scrapping of the initial road for a yet to be completed one. Rochas initial intention was good, as he wanted to dualize the road. But, If not thoughtlessness, what will make the engineers totally scrap a road linking as far as Umuowa down to Nkume.
I remember my ordeal when I last drove through that road as at last year's December, my brother it was hell to say the least. The harmattan breeze kept fuming red dust onto our path as we made our way to Umunna, that I felt sympathetic to the traders who sold their wares along the road.
But one thing you must know is this Abagworo is not the Governor of Imo state and has no power to influence Rochas decision.

Chiwude:
@Mandax, I agree that the old Orlu road needs immediate attention by the government. I was totally against the scrapping of the initial road for a yet to be completed one. Rochas initial intention was good, as he wanted to dualize the road. But, If not thoughtlessness, what will make the engineers totally scrap a road linking as far as Umuowa down to Nkume.
I remember my ordeal when I last drove through that road as at last year's December, my brother it was hell to say the least. The harmattan breeze kept fuming red dust onto our path as we made our way to Umunna, that I felt sympathetic to the traders who sold their wares along the road.
But one thing you must know is this Abagworo is not the Governor of Imo state and has no power to influence Rochas decision.

Only one day you suffered on this road. Tens of thousands of people living by its sides have been subjected to man's inhumanity to man by Okorocha

Imagine a new Imo governor scrapping the all important road from Owerri Control post all the way to Akwakuma junction, pour sand on top of some portions of the road and abandone it for four years - and running. That's like what Okorocha did in Orlu, starting with the Old Orlu-Owerri road that stops at Y-,junction. The road bears a lot of businesses in Orlu.There are also other important roads here scrapped by Okorocha.

Abagworo defends evil things, propagates Imo state as only Owerri. That's how he gets the burns sometimes.

Abagworo:
I like truthful criticism. Okorocha built mostly cheap roads in the rural areas which will not stand taste of time and 2ndly he has his billboards everywhere. I often try to calculate the cost of erecting those hundreds of billboards. Those close to him should advice him to remove most of those billboards as they suggest self praise. He should do less roads this time around and focus more on quality than quantity thats all.

rochas suffers narcissism

asha80:
rochas suffers narcissism

Maybe partially but his other antecedents suggest otherwise. He seems to care about other people. Narcissism involves utter disregard for others and ones action being all about personal gains.

I went to owerri and I wept, Rocha's has finished that town.

betterABIAstate:
I went to owerri and I wept, Rocha's has finished that town.

And when you went to Ana, what happened? Did you die?

ekafine:
u quoted me right i have absolutely nothing to loose if your state progresses but what pissed me off was that someone sat down and talked thrash about calabar. i can't imagine that some people are comparing my calabar with owerri. owerri can pass for a stop over for travelers on that route because of good population of girls in the town. calabar is a class. it's an insult to compare both places, as calabar receives both national and international visitors. owerri is a local champion when compare to calabar, they should fix that road that links rivers and many other interstates roads first. below is what we are talking about. calabar is theplace.

Dude stop stressing yourself with your constant comparison of Owerri girls and prostitutes..

Owerri girls are the most beautiful and down to earth girls on this planet..
The only prostitutes in Owerri are the ones who have actually travelled from Calabar..

Calabar has officially been declared the prostitution capital of Africa..

Not even Lagos, Mombasa and Benin come close..

I'm not arguing with you on the tourism side..
Even me I'm ashamed that Rochas Abubakar Bello Okorocha has been allowed to emerge into power (although under suspicious circumstances) and that all he has to show for his tenure is an overpriced Christmas tree and receipts of all the Imo money he has sent to Kano..

But I'll not sit here and pretend that you actually have an argument as you insult the undisputed queens of Africa..

Which girls on this earth are even half as pretty and gracious and strong and self respecting as Igbo girls??
https://www.facebook.com/463673337035260/videos/935755513160371/?pnref=story

Abagworo:
I wrote these and you can see how my view changed. As at the time I wrote the 1st one, things were better but by 2015 it has changed. The reason is because Calabar is at a dead end of Nigeria and the Jonathan government paid no attention to its access roads.

https://www.nairaland.com/566777/guys-what-happened-tinapa


https://www.nairaland.com/2601520/buhari-flags-off-highway-project

The so called unity of Nigeria is the cause of an issue and not a solution..
I wonder how many centuries it will take for people to comprehend this..

Afam4eva:
And when you went to Ana, what happened? Did you die?

Aba is changing greatly as Ikpeazu is serious but that guy you quoted is as stupiid as Chino. He wants people to descend on Abia State but he should be ignored maka odinma Ndigbo.

More Owerri.

This ugly old man, I have warned you to desist from mentioning me on this thread, when I will decide to show the world the real Owerri, I just hope you will not cry blue murder. Keep being silly!

This is just a warning!

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Abagworo:
Aba is changing greatly as Ikpeazu is serious but that guy you quoted is as stupiid as Chino. He wants people to descend on Abia State but he should be ignored maka odinma Ndigbo.

More Owerri.

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Abagworo:
Aba is changing greatly as Ikpeazu is serious but that guy you quoted is as stupiid as Chino. He wants people to descend on Abia State but he should be ignored maka odinma Ndigbo.

More Owerri.

I just left about a about 3 weeks ago and i saw some developments but mostly in the inner streets. I hope the major roads will be repaired. Roads in places like Faulks road, Ikot Ekpene road in Ogbor hill are an eye sore. Infact most road sin Aba need to be mended and some cosmetic surgery need to be done on them. I can't wait for the day when Aba will be described as "Beautiful".

Okies..another confirmation to what we have always known but dwarfish ugly poverty stricken old man called abagworo will not agree with you but will rather call you chino just deflate and divert attention. You have just said the truth and nothing but the truth!

betterABIAstate:
I went to owerri and I wept, Rocha's has finished that town.

Afam4eva:
I just left about a about 3 weeks ago and i saw some developments but mostly in the inner streets. I hope the major roads will be repaired. Roads in places like Faulks road, Ikot Ekpene road in Ogbor hill are an eye sore. Infact most road sin Aba need to be mended and some cosmetic surgery need to be done on them. I can't wait for the day when Aba will be described as "Beautiful".

Those are few out of many. Heard from reliable source that a lot has been done. However a lot remains undone and will take at least 10 years to get 50%.