deebsman1:
The poster above me could av drop his point a beta way at least a bit. Ambode actually isn't doing well in the area of environment. Fashola during his time is always been proactive wen it cums to preparing for the raining season but Ambo hasn't for me o, been doing much in that area. For anybody that knows a place like VGC well, the estate is actually and practically on water, so flooding is not the biggest issue but when it floods, how soon the water gets dry is the key by way of proper unblocked drainages.

Another thing that seems to be causing the maddened floods again is the fact that recent unsupervised and not properly planned developments in other parts of the environment could be channeling the water right thru the estate.

with all these long english you are speaking, i hope you know VGC is a private business concern, what has the government got to do with it?

that is why they buy jeeps like toys.

Gerrard59:


Does it include IBB Way in Uyo?

I think the State Minister of works would be in the know.

So that's the glorified settlement without proper drainage with the caliber of people residing there.

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judgedredd22:
with all these long english you are speaking, i hope you know VGC is a private business concern, what has the government got to do with it?

A lot.
Monitoring for enforcement of town planning laws and standards, is just one example.

marv1:
that is why they buy jeeps like toys.

....since we are too stupid to address the issue from its roots.
Can anyone cure malaria fever by using paracetamol to treat pains and headache?
If that is not stupidity, please let me know what else is stupidity.

Laughing at your ignorance. Yes VGC is a private concern and in fairness to the developers, they have done all what they've to do. Is it the same developer that will stop other developers developing other newly built estates and structures obstructing free flow of water thru it's proper channels or the govt? Also if u know VGC well, you will know there's possibility of more water flowing thru d estate as d road / round about by estate entrance recently got upgraded by the govt and this could probably also leads to more inflow of water to the estate. And even talking about govt here, we r not referring to only VGC alone, we talking about lekki peninsula generally dis year. Go to Agungi/Ajiran road leading to Friends colony estate and northern foreshore estate this year and c what we r talking about

judgedredd22:



with all these long english you are speaking, i hope you know VGC is a private business concern, what has the government got to do with it?

VGC folks can review their drainage plans. Possible create more drains or enlarge the present ones by deepening or widening them. This problem can still be solved but it will cost some money.

dingbang:
Big man big problem.... E good for them

Poor man... Jealous man!
Don't keep breeding jealousy man, so that God and nature can smile on you too.

Mrkumareze:
VGC...VERY GOOD CONDITION .

Lol.. Wicked

seguno2:


I hope that you mean all of us.
Abi when was the last time you repaired, repainted, refurbished your house, school, office, shrine, mosque or church?
Oya, make you tell us. We dey wait you.

What are you saying, haven't you renovated your place (home, office etc even with your own funds) just to make the place better and luxurious.
you know I mean governments in Nigeria, it's just few private firms that don't do maintenance. The few individuals that we feel is defaulting, check it financial ish will be the cause

seguno2:


....since we are too stupid to address the issue from its roots.
Can anyone cure malaria fever by using paracetamol to treat pains and headache?
If that is not stupidity, please let me know what else is stupidity.

Shouldn't you be planning your move back to Biafra instead of constituting nuisance over here?

deebsman1:
The poster above me could av drop his point a beta way at least a bit. Ambode actually isn't doing well in the area of environment. Fashola during his time is always been proactive wen it cums to preparing for the raining season but Ambo hasn't for me o, been doing much in that area. For anybody that knows a place like VGC well, the estate is actually and practically on water, so flooding is not the biggest issue but when it floods, how soon the water gets dry is the key by way of proper unblocked drainages.

Another thing that seems to be causing the maddened floods again is the fact that recent unsupervised and not properly planned developments in other parts of the environment could be channeling the water right thru the estate.

Ambode has not done anything significant or I should put it spectacular since he assume office .show me one significant thing that is of ambode blueprint .everything he has been doing is the legacy lay down by fashola.

I agree with you, especially he's so into decorating the outside while the inside rots away

Loop1:


Ambode has not done anything significant or I should put it spectacular since he assume office .show me one significant thing that is of ambode blueprint .everything he has been doing is the legacy lay down by fashola.

deebsman1:
I agree with you, especially he's so into decorating the outside while the inside rots away

If ambode can embark on a massive infrastructure the way fashola did .lagos will become small London in no time .

I don't know if that is there own kind of money ritual, even with all the devastating flood, folks still live there and are even happiest and still making more money.

Anyway, I love that estate, but they need to find solution to this menace, but if they love it that way, then no wahala, it's all good.

chibuzorAbia:
Shouldn't you be planning your move back to Biafra instead of constituting nuisance over here?

Is Chibuzor Abia one of those suffering from malaria but taking paracetamol to treat it?
Or what are you suffering from apart from your confusion over who you really are?

Zetra:
What are you saying, haven't you renovated your place (home, office etc even with your own funds) just to make the place better and luxurious.
you know I mean governments in Nigeria, it's just few private firms that don't do maintenance. The few individuals that we feel is defaulting, check it financial ish will be the cause

There is no financial ish.
Just not our priority.
Simple.
Don't the same people have money for owambe party clothes, food and drinks?
Abeg let us stop making excuses for our failures. We can't and we won't make any progress in this manner.

dingbang:
Big man big problem.... E good for them

Bro is like u don't dream to b great one day with this kind of comment?! I pray u get sense soon.

That shouldnt be a problem shebi most of them get suv n dem Gwagon

seguno2:


Is Chibuzor Abia one of those suffering from malaria but taking paracetamol to treat it?
Or what are you suffering from apart from your confusion over who you really are?

Ode, chibuzorAbia is a mere profile name on Nairaland. I don't know what you are confused about, are you 'Northern Igbo'?

Tedassie:

I think the State Minister of works would be in the know.

Even with the purported biggest drainage system in Africa?



Truth is: The drainage system was and is a scam. It does not exist, for it did, IBB Way will not be a river as it is. .

Gerrard59:


Even with the purported biggest drainage system in Africa?



Truth is: The drainage system was and is a scam. It does not exist, for it did, IBB Way will not be a river as it is. .

Sir,if you're asserting that the Underground Pipe-Jacking Drainage technology itself 'does not exist' then i'll suggest you do some looking up: because it is REAL,thus it exists (though nascent, it's application is being employed in parts of the world(Europe especially),of which flood control is also a part.
http://www.pipejacking.org/about_pipe_jacking
https://www.herrenknecht.com/en/innovation/know-how/pipe-jacking.html

Secondly,it's not that i'm making a case for the previous administration or the present one,but being guided with a sense of fairness and objectivity it should however be noted that the government of the day is embroiled with other projects(lets not go into the socioeconomic-geared ones,due emphasis is on: road projects) mostly federal of significant economic value for the time being),having to deal with paucity of funds that the state government may not be able to shoulder alone.

Also,the issue of environmental impact assessment on adjoining coastal communities where the rain water would be subsequently emptied,was brought to the fore,here is how it works:The underground pipe-jacking drainage involves running of pipes(not just any pipes...large, diameter steel pipes of specific thickness) some 30metres underground to collect water into a giant trough known as reservoir, which then empties rainwater into a nearby/stream,the force of the water current in (theory&reality) is capable of powering a turbine.

The idea was,the flood at Nsikak Eduok Avenue (as at then) was to be channeled to Udo Udoma (by Tropicana Ent' centre) to be emptied at some streams at Ibesikpo Asutan LGA.

Points of Note:
>However as at Nov 30th,2016 Rt Hon(Elder) Aniekan Uko while addressing the commissioner for Works Mr.Ephraim Inyang-Eyen raised concerns on the environmental impact assessment of the underground drainage project which empties into streams in his community,with the view that finding lasting solutions to flood shouldn't be at the detriment of the people of his constituency.That while the State Government may have succeeded or in the process of solving the flood challenges in Uyo metropolis, several communities in Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area are however bearing the brunt of this flood, such that the People of Mbikpong Ikot Edim, Afaha Ikot Osom, Ikot Udo Ekop and Nung Oku Akpasima Villages no longer have any source of potable drinking water,as a result of the contamination arising from the channeling of this flood water into the streams that served this communities.
>WORRIED that the force of the flooding water, which has capacity of powering a turbine has rather unleashed this force on the only bridge that Ikot Udo Ekop Village with Ikot Ikere, Ebereotu, Nung Oku Akpasima and Mbikpong Ikot Edim villages and has led to the sudden collapse of the bridge, thereby cutting the link between these villages and the rest of the communities.
>FURTHER WORRIED that as a result of the collapse of this bridge, traders and farmers who hitherto used to move their goods and farm produce to Nung Udoe, Afaha and Uyo Markets, now find it very difficult to do so, due to the inaccessibility of these communities, a situation that has futher worsen the economic woes of these rural traders and farmers, especially during this recession period.*********

Pardon the long epistle:
So you see sometimes in the process of nipping in the bud certain challenges,new ones tend to crop up,however that's not to imply that the government of the day in an effort to play it safe,shouldn't find it's way around such issues. I believe when an alternative route of channelling the flood in that area is found,the needful will be done.