mktinsight:


I am from Anambra and I am against the project because the government has better things to do with their pitiful amount of revenue. There are 3 airports 1 hour away from Anambra - Owerri, Asaba, Enugu. Use the 20-30 billion an airport will cost to fix Awka, Onitsha, Nnewi. You don't need an airport.

mktinsight:
Anambra: Don’t bother me about Anambra airport project, Obiano’s commissioner lashes journalist

June 17, 2020 Okechukwu Onuegbu News 0

Barely seven months of boasting that the Anambra state International Cargo Airport project would be completed in less than 18 months, there is indication that work has not started at the site after the state commissioner for Works, Mr Marcel Ifejiofor, told journalists they won’t access it.

A team of investigative journalists including Blueprint reporter had gone to find out the pace of work at the site since Governor Willie Obiano, on November 27, 2019 during the Anambra Business and Investment Roundtable held at Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia, said the project would be completed before 18 months.

Obiano equally claimed that work has resumed on the site with clearing done at about a kilometer out of 3.6 kilometer runway.

“Oga, sorry, we don’t entertain journalists here any longer. You can’t be allowed to see its pace. You can call the works commissioner to confirm it,” two ununiformed men stationed at the entrance to the site stated, adding that the commissioner was on site with the contracting firm.

But a look from afar showed that there was no work on the site except a visible sign of a newly cleared road by bulldozer, first of its kind since 2017 the work was flagged off.


When the commissioner for works, Mr Ifejiofor was contacted on the phone, he queried, “Why are you here? Who told you to come here? We don’t allow people to come here, you can’t come, but you can come to my office on the following Wednesday by 10am,” he said.

On Wednesday, the commissioner fumed again,“I don’t know what you want to be told about the project. Go and quote me, just say work has not started. I am not ready to talk further on the project, so you can say that I said no comment. If you have other things to know about the state of roads in Anambra, I will be ready to speak to you, but I am not willing to talk about the airport.


“Any time I want to make a comment I will tell you. If the project had started our Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) would have carried the report.

Is it because I allowed you into my office? How many commissioners in the state can allow you into their offices the way I allowed you people not to talk of other eastern states. I don’t have any comments on the project,” he said.

Obiano had at a budget presentation at Anambra State House of Assembly on September 26, 2019 announced that the government has earmarked N6 billion naira for the construction of the Anambra State International Cargo Airport at Umueri, Anambra East local government area in fulfilment of his promise at 2017 governorship campaign.

The governor in 2017 inaugurated the airport project which, according to him, included a mall, industrial, business park, airport hotel and others, claiming that it would boost economic development and increase the income base of the state.

The project, estimated to cost over $2 billion and would be developed through a partnership between the Anambra State Government, Orient Petroleum Resources and Elite International Investments. Elite International Investments was specifically said to provide all funds under a build, operate, manage and transfer agreement.

Earlier in 2017, Obiano said it was a Chinese company, Sinoking International that would build it at no cost to the state through a Build-Operate-Manage and Transfer (BOMT) basis

Rocksvibes234:
And this is what, since has not started.


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

AsomughaChuks02:
Nonsense! Those airports are in business because they are oiled by the large patronage of Anambra passengers who are the most travelled among Igbos. So that is capital flight from and revenue loss to Anambra state. The same thing was happening in the judiciary with capital flight to Enugu state until recently when the Federal Appeal court was domiciled in Anambra. Opposition in Anambra are so bitter it is has taken a toll on their sanity. If they are not opposing the airport or the second Niger bridge, they will send a mad man to make some video near the Governor's lodge

AsomughaChuks02:
Nonsense! Those airports are in business because they are oiled by the large patronage of Anambra passengers who are the most travelled among Igbos. So that is capital flight from and revenue loss to Anambra state. The same thing was happening in the judiciary with capital flight to Enugu state until recently when the Federal Appeal court was domiciled in Anambra. Opposition in Anambra are so bitter it is has taken a toll on their sanity. If they are not opposing the airport or the second Niger bridge, they will send a mad man to make some video near the Governor's lodge

mktinsight:

Appeal Court is different from an airport and this is not about politics. An airport serves REGIONS not political divisions. The sea port in Lagos serves everyone in Nigeria as does the sea port in Onne. An airport in Enugu serves not just Enugu but everywhere close to it including Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo, etc. So lets stop being so village minded on this forum! hat is one. Number 2 is that an airport is EXPENSIVE and does not make money until it reaches a certain volume. The only airports making money in Nigeria are Lagos and Abuja. The rest are being subsidized by government funds. If you do not know how airports collect their revenue, let me tell you. Most comes from TICKET TAXES and CONCESSION Fees. Enugu airport with 350,000 domestic passengers and 30,000 international last year domestic barely made $4m revenue or 1.6 billion naira . How much do you think it costs to maintain that airport? Asaba airport made 100m naira last year. his is why any sensible person would ask why are you dumping huge sums of money into an airport? What do you gain by it? Enugu is there, Owerri is there, Asaba is there. You gain NOTHING but a huge debt bill like Cross River and Akwa Ibom. Now the revenue of ANSG is less than 100 billion. Its cities are nothing to write home about. None have functional public water supply, none have even 20% of their roads tarred so what are you talking about? We have better priorities than an airport for Gods sakes!

Ceegar01:

My brother did you know that Rcc and Nigercat are also among the contractors working there, Anyway my happiness is that work is going on there. Thanks though

mktinsight:


Appeal Court is different from an airport and this is not about politics. An airport serves REGIONS not political divisions. The sea port in Lagos serves everyone in Nigeria as does the sea port in Onne. An airport in Enugu serves not just Enugu but everywhere close to it including Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo, etc. So lets stop being so village minded on this forum!

That is one. Number 2 is that an airport is EXPENSIVE and does not make money until it reaches a certain volume. The only airports making money in Nigeria are Lagos and Abuja. The rest are being subsidized by government funds. If you do not know how airports collect their revenue, let me tell you. Most comes from TICKET TAXES and CONCESSION Fees. Enugu airport with 350,000 domestic passengers and 30,000 international last year domestic barely made $4m revenue or 1.6 billion naira . How much do you think it costs to maintain that airport? Asaba airport made 100m naira last year.

This is why any sensible person would ask why are you dumping huge sums of money into an airport? What do you gain by it? Enugu is there, Owerri is there, Asaba is there. You gain NOTHING but a huge debt bill like Cross River and Akwa Ibom. Now the revenue of ANSG is less than 100 billion. Its cities are nothing to write home about. None have functional public water supply, none have even 20% of their roads tarred so what are you talking about? We have better priorities than an airport for Gods sakes!

mktinsight:


Appeal Court is different from an airport and this is not about politics. An airport serves REGIONS not political divisions. The sea port in Lagos serves everyone in Nigeria as does the sea port in Onne. An airport in Enugu serves not just Enugu but everywhere close to it including Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo, etc. So lets stop being so village minded on this forum!

That is one. Number 2 is that an airport is EXPENSIVE and does not make money until it reaches a certain volume. The only airports making money in Nigeria are Lagos and Abuja. The rest are being subsidized by government funds. If you do not know how airports collect their revenue, let me tell you. Most comes from TICKET TAXES and CONCESSION Fees. Enugu airport with 350,000 domestic passengers and 30,000 international last year domestic barely made $4m revenue or 1.6 billion naira . How much do you think it costs to maintain that airport? Asaba airport made 100m naira last year.

This is why any sensible person would ask why are you dumping huge sums of money into an airport? What do you gain by it? Enugu is there, Owerri is there, Asaba is there. You gain NOTHING but a huge debt bill like Cross River and Akwa Ibom. Now the revenue of ANSG is less than 100 billion. Its cities are nothing to write home about. None have functional public water supply, none have even 20% of their roads tarred so what are you talking about? We have better priorities than an airport for Gods sakes!

mktinsight:


Appeal Court is different from an airport and this is not about politics. An airport serves REGIONS not political divisions. The sea port in Lagos serves everyone in Nigeria as does the sea port in Onne. An airport in Enugu serves not just Enugu but everywhere close to it including Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo, etc. So lets stop being so village minded on this forum!

That is one. Number 2 is that an airport is EXPENSIVE and does not make money until it reaches a certain volume. The only airports making money in Nigeria are Lagos and Abuja. The rest are being subsidized by government funds. If you do not know how airports collect their revenue, let me tell you. Most comes from TICKET TAXES and CONCESSION Fees. Enugu airport with 350,000 domestic passengers and 30,000 international last year domestic barely made $4m revenue or 1.6 billion naira . How much do you think it costs to maintain that airport? Asaba airport made 100m naira last year.

This is why any sensible person would ask why are you dumping huge sums of money into an airport? What do you gain by it? Enugu is there, Owerri is there, Asaba is there. You gain NOTHING but a huge debt bill like Cross River and Akwa Ibom. Now the revenue of ANSG is less than 100 billion. Its cities are nothing to write home about. None have functional public water supply, none have even 20% of their roads tarred so what are you talking about? We have better priorities than an airport for Gods sakes!

AsomughaChuks02:
I don't have time for bad belle people. I seriously doubt you are from Anambra state. Even if you are, you can't possibly make this opinion in public without sharp rebuke or silent disdain from those you are engaging in dialogue. Osita Chidoka who spoke against the airport during the guber debate in 2017 saw how his people rejected him totally in the main election. Even his Idemili area voted against him, something they usually don't do against their own unless he has derailed.

Rocksvibes234:
Anambra airport is also cargo airport for business men's in Anambra. Do you know that Over 60% of goods and services that are imported through Lagos cargo seaport and airport are heading to anambra state, okay now if we have the cargo seaport and airport our state government will takes advantages of it in every sectors and it will be easier and low cost for our business men's who stress and spend so much within and outside the country just for their goods to reach the final destination which is here in Anambra State, and mind you that agribusiness and orient petroleum needs the airport more than everyone.

So we know what we are doing and we don't need ur suggestion

mktinsight:
An airport is nothing special except for people who cannot reason. Chidoka has a masters degree in transportation and saw the waste of funds same with Obaze. It was not what lost him the election in 2017 it was that he lacked the political structure to compete.As for Obiano he has had almost 8 years to show us what he can do. His planning is terrible, his administration is wasteful and full of his corrupt aguleri kinsmen including that overweight works commissioner under whos watch local roads are collapsingHis so called airport is not feasible in the next 5 years and I laugh when the idiots in govt house and here dance with videos of site tours. A runway alone takes 2-3 years and that is with full funding. Obiano is just fooling people because he knows the next governor will dump the project. As for his ICC which makes more sense they made a mess if it. A simple building three years after conception its not even 25% completed. Yet people build 100 room hotels in less time.

mktinsight:
You THINK you know what you are doing but you don't. You are not an engineer nor do you have the faintest clue about the aviation industry nor about project management. It is clear in your writing and those of other Obiano hype en that there is a lot of ignorance here.

marshman293:
He's not from anambra doesn't stop him from saying the truth.What u guys do is to insult and tame those who speak sense. very unfortunate.
from $2bn budget to #6bn for airport

AsomughaChuks02:
I don't have time for bad belle people. I seriously doubt you are from Anambra state. Even if you are, you can't possibly make this opinion in public without sharp rebuke or silent disdain from those you are engaging in dialogue. Osita Chidoka who spoke against the airport during the guber debate in 2017 saw how his people rejected him totally in the main election. Even his Idemili area voted against him, something they usually don't do against their own unless he has derailed.

Rocksvibes234:
And also note that 20% equity was allocated to Orient Petroleum, even if Anambra Airport infrastructure allocated 75% to Orient petroleum they are willing to fund it, and also note that Osike Synergy Nigeria limited and Emsworth oil and gas limited are in as the Airport facilitators and alot of other investors.

and as it is now work in ongoing morning and night Sundays and weekdays despite the pandemic . It the project will be delivered very soon.

BeijinDossier:



Another true talk.

marshman293:
He's not from anambra doesn't stop him from saying the truth.What u guys do is to insult and tame those who speak sense.
very unfortunate.
from $2bn budget to #6bn for airport

mktinsight:
Don't mind some of these idiots on this forum. For anyone with sense it is obvious the Anambra State government is playing to the gallery. They are highly incompetent and it shows. The people dancing don't know better. They haven't seen the six lane expressways Houston (where Obiano lives) has or the hundreds of roads that dot that city.ANSG's preferred amateur contractors (IDC) took the Amawbia-Awka expressway that had space for THREE lanes and reduced it to two lanes with no crash barriers, no emergency lane, no service lane, no markings, built ramps in the WRONG places and called them flyovers and said it all cost 13billion naira ($50m). Then to make a mockery of engineering they put up a fake suspension bridge tower with cables because they wanted it to look like Lekki-Ikoyi bridge not knowing that those towers serve a purpose and are not "decoration". Meanwhile just go into Onitsha and Awka and experience the chaos and confusion of cities that lack major infrastructure. Awka Road that is the main entry into Onitsha is a one-lane road. Iweka road a wide road named after one of the great early engineers has deteriorated greatly with part of it taken over by a market. The old Enugu-Onitsha EXPRESSWAY built by the colonialists as the first PLANNED anambra-enugu artery that cuts through a large number of important towns from Nkpor, Ogidi, Abagana, Enugwu-Ukwu, Awka has become nothing more than a one-lane local road inundated with filthy markets spilling over and causing lots of traffic. What a DISASTER.

BeijinDossier:
Demonic bastard, it doesn't concern you. We need the airport and government is building it for us. It's none of your business. Why not just go and take a hike so that human beings can at least be.

You are against the airport project but it is ongoing right now and there's nothing you can do about it. Why not just kill yourself since you cannot bear it.

Useless miserable vagabond, commissioner is overweight but your useless good for nothing father is not even qualified to be his shoe shinner

Airport project , ICC, roads, and bridges are all ongoing in Anambra. We don't need your advice, take back. We don't need anything from a demon like you mktinsight

ChimaAdeoye:

That guy is so pained about the Anambra airport. The same way he was in the Ebonyi airport thread spewing their bitterness.

Why can't Yoruba people understand that whether they wish the SE evil or not, someday, we will have all the facilities that bring us to Lagos and they can have their overrated urban slum back.

I feel sorry reading the nauseating effort by these people to either discourage Igbos from providing what the FG refused to provide. They burst their spleen trying to convince us to accept their deceit.

I wish they know that we already know their kind by the virtue of years gained being in Nigeria with these treacherous people.

mktinsight:
"Why do we need an airport in Anambra State when we do not have roads?" - Obaze questioning @WillieMObiano
plan to build an airport. #AnambraDebates

Rocksvibes234:
So tell us since a state with the Africa largest market, in terms of geographical size and volume of goods and services, Africa largest spare market and over 64 major high volume market spread around the state, does not needs cargo/ passenger airport which state needs it. Tell Us?

BeijinDossier:
Nwanne you are just wasting your time trying to get a reasonable response from a cursed frustrated vagabond. Just stay aside and allow me give him the appropriate response.