eduj:

bro ikpeazu till date hasn't shown any foresight/desire to modernize markets in Abia.
our people are also resistant to change.
Take this instances:
1) Aba mega mall -5 years since completion it is laying fallow and that's a mall built to international standard.
2)2015, a South African group proposed modernising ariaria (electric lifts, covered roofs, fire service and the works). if the market union had accepted the firm would have made up their money from expanding the market-Ariaria trade union protested till that idea died down.
3)etche road strip mall-the builder is yet to complete construction because few people signed onto the project
4)ekumi Plaza -this modern market built by a bank which is located deep in Ariaria isn't full for 3 years now.

point is Aba people need force to accept change. Ikpeazu unfortunately lacks the will to do such (bring down or at least relocation of ariaria,new market and Shopping Centre). unfortunately again, those shops sells for over 2 million naira -In some instances -how do you destroy or relocate such?
unless he pulls off what Rocha's did with Douglas market, I don't see any change happening
The government made a mistake selling the shops instead of leasing them for a maximum of 10 years.

yet again, some of this markets like new market are witnessing failure and subsequent abandoning of buildings -definitely in the nearest future modernisation of thread in Aba would begin
market square opened up the first mall franchise in Aba this year, with the massive patronage the garner everyday I hope more of such outfits would spring up.

cjrane:


This video was shot about a week ago. Those here selling propaganda should understand that nobody is fooled. We are begging you guys to clean up Aba and fix the roads of this great city. Abia state can never be said to be developed until Aba becomes a great city again. If they like, they can tar all the roads in Abriba, Arochukwu or Umuahia. Without fixing Aba, Abia state is dead ad a viable place.

It is a shame what you have allowed Aba to become!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQfk-ivc-e0

sage:


I dont get the people promoting propaganda online for the Orji clan and Ikpeazu? What is the use of the lies they are promoting?

Just fix Aba and this crown jewel of a city will promote itself. You dont need a paid army of propagandists to promote the idea of say Abuja having good roads. Why do you need that for Aba if the roads were actually good? Stop paying these people to promote an alternate reality and just fix the damn place already

Fix all the roads, change the horrific markets to malls and unleash the massive potential of the city. There is no point in propaganda.

This market is very near to Enyimba stadium. When foreigners come to Aba to play Enyimba this is the horror show they are greeted with. Yet we want people to respect us. They view us as animals

cjrane:


This video was shot about a week ago. Those here selling propaganda should understand that nobody is fooled. We are begging you guys to clean up Aba and fix the roads of this great city. Abia state can never be said to be developed until Aba becomes a great city again. If they like, they can tar all the roads in Abriba, Arochukwu or Umuahia. Without fixing Aba, Abia state is dead ad a viable place.

It is a shame what you have allowed Aba to become!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQfk-ivc-e0

sage:


I dont get the people promoting propaganda online for the Orji clan and Ikpeazu? What is the use of the lies they are promoting?

Just fix Aba and this crown jewel of a city will promote itself. You dont need a paid army of propagandists to promote the idea of say Abuja having good roads. Why do you need that for Aba if the roads were actually good? Stop paying these people to promote an alternate reality and just fix the damn place already

Fix all the roads, change the horrific markets to malls and unleash the massive potential of the city. There is no point in propaganda.

This market is very near to Enyimba stadium. When foreigners come to Aba to play Enyimba this is the horror show they are greeted with. Yet we want people to respect us. They view us as animals

Stan2330:


Oga, leave propaganda politics...it won't help you in this life.

how much did they pay you for this?

list a good 10km road in aba then we can drag here

is it not this same aba that I know? you'll just snap a section of the road and post

That stipend will soon finish

OVB123:
My dear leave them, let them continue to deceived theirselves. most of these photos posted here are not as beautiful as u think, seening it on ground, u will be dissapointed.

IGBOSON1:


Yeah...we like it like that! Now you’ve got that off your chest, care to leave now?

SonOfEl:


Oga, you initially sounded like a concerned Igbo passionate about the development of Aba.

Now you are gradually eating your way in like a worm to destroy this thread.

Aba today is MUCH better than it was a years ago, it's transformation won't happen overnight. There are jobs to create, bills to pay, legal issues to contend with and so on.... all you care about is FAULT FINDING. If you are looking for fault, Aba has a lot of it, same as other cities in Nigeria. But don't come and dilute the enthusiasm we have about Aba's journey to recovery.

SonOfEl:


Another loser ranting.....

Were the roads REALLY built yes or no? Now you are asking about how beautiful it looks.

If you see Lagos in pictures, you would think it's as clean as as London, same for other cities not just in Nigeria.

The ROADS are REAL. stop being sadistic.

sage:


I am an Igbo man extremely passionate about Igbo land developing.

There are millions of igbos around the world in the diaspora who would unleash capital inside a functional Aba and create massive wealth in it if the city were fixed.

If you build solid long lasting 25km of road every year in Aba every year for the past 5 years of Ikpeazu's govt, Aba's road network would be unrivaled in Nigeria. A city of entrepreneurs needs basic infrastructure like roads to flourish, not paid propagandists online.

Nobody needs to promote anything Ikpeazu has done. Just fix Aba and it will speak for itself

FACE:


The Aba people of nowadays are falling too much hand. These traders pay millions in various levies every month and still carry on paying with all the bad roads in the markets.

Let's take Ariaria for example; with more than 37000 shops and each shop paying a minimum of 5K per month to various agencies and touts, you are looking at more than 2.2 billion naira per year thrown into the bush, and we haven't even added all the money from the car parks. The Aba people of old would not take that rubbish. The old guards would have stopped paying and used the money to fix the internal market roads. Ariaria is like a town on it's own and the footprint of the main market is minus all the surrounding trading areas is about 1km x 700m in size. Maybe it's time to run Ariaria as it's own self funding municipality. Same goes for Ngwa Road, shopping centre and Cemetery markets

It's criminal to neglect Aba, but I praise the resilience of the people. There are 3-4 heavily subscribed industrial layouts in Aba and other industries which are sporadically spread within the city and people are still investing against all odds. An industrial belt was developing towards the PH road end of Ariaria but this was quickly killed by the poor state of that road. Aba - Owerri - PH road (Express to Express) is the main artery of Aba and yet the criminal governors hid under the cloak of federal road to neglect that road.

sage:
Very few cities in West Africa has the potential Aba does. Aba should be a leading African city known on a first name basis around the continent. The place should be the pride of Igbo land. With so many Igbo people in the diaspora, this should be the Lagos and Abuja of the east. Where people come to all the time be they resident in Malaysia, South Africa, Germany, Canada or Brazil

The people who have power in Abia state are destroying the place and sinking its potential. Paying for propaganda will not fix it at all or change anything

eduj:

you made valid points but no state government in the east would be able to fund a reconstruction of the enugu-ph road. Do you even know how long that road is?
aba road umuahia, the Nnpc depot road, aba-owerri -factory roads are all Federal roads in Abia that the state government is reconstructing. Even ph road aba (the bulk of bad pics of aba is from that axis) is another Federal road newmap is handling.
point is, be realistic in stating your views

eduj:

you made valid points but no state government in the east would be able to fund a reconstruction of the enugu-ph road. Do you even know how long that road is?
aba road umuahia, the Nnpc depot road, aba-owerri -factory roads are all Federal roads in Abia that the state government is reconstructing. Even ph road aba (the bulk of bad pics of aba is from that axis) is another Federal road newmap is handling.
point is, be realistic in stating your views

ABlAstate:



Liar. Do you know the definition of a federal road? Roads that link 2 states are can described as federal road.

Faulks road is a state road

Old ABA-Umuahia road is a state road because federal government has taken up the Ph--Aba-Enugu road to replace that one because it serves the same purpose.

95% of bad roads in Abia state are all state roads. Governments in Abia state since 1999 has failed the state but the citizens are not helping matters.

When Mbadinuju was messing up in 1999, Anambra people chased him away after 4yrs and has since relegated him to the background.

The same thing has happened in Imo state, but in Abia TA Orji finished 8yrs in office and was congratulated with senatorial posts, same with Orji kalu. When shall Abia people say enough is enough? If it is to carry IPOB on the head now they will do it perfectly well.

Okezie for instance was owing several months unpaid salaries, he has nothing to show for his 1st term but Abia people still voted him. You may say its was rigged, but I tell you this for free- you can't rig if you are not popular. But Okezie despite being a failure won.

We must begin think emulate other SE states for once. We are the worst state in the region. Even ebonyi has since overtaken Abia state.

eduj:


are you stupid or just blind? where did you see faulks road in my post? a road that has already been expanded and reconstructed by the way.
I also didn't mention old umuahia road. if truly you are Abian, you would know old umuahia road is very different from aba road umuahia.
don't just comment for its sake actually read before typing rubbish.aba-owerri road (aba),aba road umuahia , ph road aba depot road as I mentioned before are all Federal roads being done by the state government -go through this thread for pics of some of them
also am not holding brief for the orjis but I would keep on insisting that my state is getting better -every picture of roads you see on this thread where done by this present administration (apart from bank road unusual)

FACE:


The people in Abia and the economy of Aba are bearing the cost of the neglect of the so called Federal roads. By the same argument, the governor shouldn't be building a flyover at Osisioma since it's a federal Road.

Aba-Owerri-PH Road ( Express junction at Osisioma through town to Express junction at Bakassi/Ariaria) is about 17km long. On the express, Osisioma to Alaoji is about 15km.

Are you saying that Abia state isn't capable of reconstructing 32 km of road and passing the bill to FG? The funds from Ariaria alone can reconstruct those roads. OK, so what's the argument for the poor state of Ngwa road? Federal road too?

There is no escuse for the bad state of roads in Abia. Ebonyi state just claimed to have completed more than 1000 Km of concrete based roads and you are saying that Abia isn't capable of much more?

ABlAstate:
Shut up and stop spewing nonsense. In your previous posts you were busy blaming it on federal roads. How many federal roads are in Abia state apart from Ph-Enugu Express and Ikot Ekpene road that link AKWAIBOM.

My point is that 95% of the roads in Abia state are state roads and they are all bad.

OVB123:
U know u are lieing. please, stop lieing.

sage:
Very few cities in West Africa has the potential Aba does. Aba should be a leading African city known on a first name basis around the continent. The place should be the pride of Igbo land. With so many Igbo people in the diaspora, this should be the Lagos and Abuja of the east. Where people come to all the time be they resident in Malaysia, South Africa, Germany, Canada or Brazil

The people who have power in Abia state are destroying the place and sinking its potential. Paying for propaganda will not fix it at all or change anything

SonOfEl:


I don't know what "lieing" means.
I assume you mean "lying", which is quite ridiculous on your own part cos only a sadist will deny the infrastructural intervention going on in Aba

Umueme:


Oga Faulks road na Fed. road, but ikpeazu is repairing it

ABlAstate:
Shut up and stop spewing nonsense. In your previous posts you were busy blaming it on federal roads. How many federal roads are in Abia state apart from Ph-Enugu Express and Ikot Ekpene road that link AKWAIBOM.

My point is that 95% of the roads in Abia state are state roads and they are all bad.

FACE:


The people in Abia and the economy of Aba are bearing the cost of the neglect of the so called Federal roads. By the same argument, the governor shouldn't be building a flyover at Osisioma since it's a federal Road.

Aba-Owerri-PH Road ( Express junction at Osisioma through town to Express junction at Bakassi/Ariaria) is about 17km long. On the express, Osisioma to Alaoji is about 15km.

Are you saying that Abia state isn't capable of reconstructing 32 km of road and passing the bill to FG? The funds from Ariaria alone can reconstruct those roads. OK, so what's the argument for the poor state of Ngwa road? Federal road too?

There is no escuse for the bad state of roads in Abia. Ebonyi state just claimed to have completed more than 1000 Km of concrete based roads and you are saying that Abia isn't capable of much more?

eduj:

I had to go back and reread my post to see where I claimed the Federal government is solely responsible for the bad state of roads in Abia. I failed to see such so I beg you to highlight that post or keep mum and actually read before commenting.
you're not from Abia if you don't know the Federal roads in the state-obviously your a troll with nothing better to do

please quote or highlight where I blamed the FG (and don't dodge these if truly you know what you are saying)

eduj:

I had to go back and reread my post to see where I claimed the Federal government is solely responsible for the bad state of roads in Abia. I failed to see such so I beg you to highlight that post or keep mum and actually read before commenting.
you're not from Abia if you don't know the Federal roads in the state-obviously your a troll with nothing better to do

please quote or highlight where I blamed the FG (and don't dodge these if truly you know what you are saying)