malc619:

Pics don't lie!!!!

You can't rubbish a performer because of some insatiable and parasitic Ibo folks and you expect folks to sit back and allow you continue in your rubbish antics of demonizing anything positive about the SW....

You and your fellow Ibo folks should tell us if your governors have built the road to ur house in your state.. Hypocrites...

So anyone who now says anything negative about saint Fashola is an Ibo man. Look how myopic and tribalistic you are.

For your information, am from Akwa Ibom state and proudly resident in uyo. It's known everywhere that you can't compare quality of roads is Akwa Ibom to anywhere in your village . Even my street has better roads and street lights compared to the road leading to your government house (K-Line , Ewet Housing Estate , uyo). The address is for you to confirm what I just stated.

If I brag about my government, its because I personally can enjoy its dividends. I don't need to go about looking for beautiful pictures to use and brag on the internet . I still challenge Eko Ile (or whatever the buttlicker chooses to answer ) if he can proudly post pictures of his street so that we can appreciate how Fashola has performed there!

agbameta:

Can you sincerely say the road to your house looks anything like what you have posted? Can't you see how foolish you are?

You go about taking beautiful pictures so as to praise your master and force people to see him as the best governor on earth , yet you can't post the pictures of your own street where you live because you are ashamed of it. You go about posting pictures of water works , yet you depend on mei-ruwa for water. Bloody shameless hypocrite.

Someone who is suffering from bad road is putting up this article , so as to attract the attention of your elitist governor , and your here barking him down! Are you this shallow? Don't you have conscience?

BabaTony:

I know my brother. Im just asking because I know the cineplex is in use and wonder why the rush if they weren't ready to give the place a good look.

I can authoritatively tell you that the landscape works for the entire complex will soon commence starting from the theme park which is inside the complex. Jardin has been contracted to undertake the landscape works. works on the cinema and mall area will commence when Julius Berger completes the remaining portion of the carpark and internal roads.

agbameta:







I see you as a responsible fellow hence I would want to believe you were mislead by the lies of Eko Ile into believing those pictures originated from AKSG website or even Godswill Akpabio website. You are on the internet please feel free to search for them on these sites .

^^^^^

I remember the Eko Ile thread and if I'm not mistaken he posted the link with pictures from the state's website so you are a lair, the pictures are from the state's website...






N559 billion Akwa Ibom water works and array of abandoned projects ...

You don't disappoint !

Demdem:

Well Presented. Lets see how he will spin this.

Ordinarily I chose to ignore this kid, but since your asking for explanations and I believe your a reasonable person unlike Eko Ile who has this bitterness about Akwa Ibom, I would break this down to the lay man's language , perhaps he too could learn.

A budget is a document showing a government anticipated spending and also it's anticipated revenue. Just like every other thing, these spendings could fluctuate either higher or lower than anticipated , same way the revenues could fluctuate. Akwa Ibom state whose major source of revenue is oil is even more prone to this volatile nature of the country's oil production and oil prices. And having a budget of 80% capital and 20% recurrent , such drop in revenue threatens the timely completion of many capital projects. So the Government like every other one including Lagos state (which blazes the trail with a $611m debt) borrows money to shore up the short fall in the budget hence this isn't an additional spending. It is money added to achieve the 470 billion budget and paid back when there is excess revenue above what was budgeted. The result is that we can see mega projects completed in a timely fashion unlike some states where it takes 8 years to construct a 10km road due to paucity of funds. That's the secret behind the uncommon transformation in Akwa Ibom state.

Demdem:

am not bitter at all, am just curious that those of u that claim to live there still cant show us anything except roads from Akwa IBom.
Anyway, plans changed and didnt undergo the trip. I will have to go in a working day.
Till then, i will stick with the Govt pictures on their websites which ur kind still hasnt denied

No problems Bro! Still better that you come on a working day so you can visit some of the project sites such as TROPICANA which Eko Ile labeled as abandoned.

I see you as a responsible fellow hence I would want to believe you were mislead by the lies of Eko Ile into believing those pictures originated from AKSG website or even Godswill Akpabio website. You are on the internet please feel free to search for them on these sites .

In Akwa Ibom state , the government undertakes some micro projects especially in the rural areas, and these projects are valued from about 5m to about 15m. The projects range from renovations of classroom blocks, primary health centres, drilling of boreholes, and are all executed by direct labour. These projects are running simultaneously with other mega infrastructural projects being handled by major contractors. Its a means of providing immediate succour to a community whilst the major infrastructural projects is in progress . For example a community can have clean and portable water within 3 weeks at less than 10million , instead of waiting for 28 months for the major water recticulation works and concrete water towers to be completed.

Why am I giving you these stories? its so that you will be able to distinguish major infrastructural projects and community development direct labour projects. I have noticed the haters quickly pounce on the latter and use such to propagate their falsehood . You can read more of this from the same websites.

About me giving pictures , I have said it and will repeat it again , no Akwa Ibomite (at least not me) will glorify hasters on this forum with pictures of infrastructures we enjoy. These things are for our use and enjoyment not for internet propaganda. We are not like our brothers on the other side of the Niger who post pictures of schools they wouldn't want their kids to attend, post pictures of hospitals, yet rush to St Nicholas to treat malaria, post pictures of water works yet buy water from the private borehole operator down their street, who post pictures of a beautiful bridge they can't ply because of the exorbitant tolls.

An Ex-governor with no traceable source of income lavished billions on his fictitious 60th birthday celebration and it was ok, but the mother of a sitting president donates 2 hostel blocks worth less than 100 million to a university and she's called all sorts of names.

The hypocrisy of my southwest brothers !!!

agbameta:

Akwa Ibom's budget for 2012 was N397 billion + N125 billion supplemental budget = N522 billion. Largest state budget in the history of Nigeria then.

Akwa Ibom budget for 2013 was N470 billion + N80 billion loan = N479 + N80 billion = N559 billion. Largest state budget and state spending in the history of Nigeria for just 2 million people.

And what do we have for all that money year after year? Just a few roads. That's all.

One day one day we go find out what the 419 governor is doing with all that money since we can't see what he's doing with all that money..

Olodo, abeg shut your mouth make I school you...


LOL @ EKO ILE,. EKO ILE KO, EKO ILU NI. U neva jamm,,

Hahahaha ! Same lies, Same bitterness against Akpabio , Same shallow thinking , just different username ! Eko Ile you have been busted .
Using a different name to propagate the same lies will never make it true. Akwa Ibom has never passed any supplementary budget for 80billion , they simply borrowed 80billion from a low interest facility to pay back the earlier 50billion high interest facility from UBA . It forms part of the 470billion budget!

olodo! Iso mbiam, Iwod Eyak!

agbameta:



I didn't ask you for tales by moonlight, show us the schools, show us the hospitals, show us the water works, show is the clinics..


Show us what your fraudulent governor did with the largest allocation and budget in Nigeria.

lmao...

Hahahaha ! you want me to show you what my government has done for me? you must be joking! We Akwa Ibomites aren't as loud mouthed as you guys who upload different views of one school building on the internet for people to see and applaud you, yet you will never want your kids to attend such schools. who upload pictures of water works yet buy water from the private borehole operator down your filthy street. who claim to have a beautiful bridge but cannot ply it cos you can't afford the exorbitant tolls.

As I have said several times, our projects are for we Akwa Ibomites to use and enjoy, and not for internet propaganda as your government does. If your so curious to know about Akwa Ibom, hop on the next flight here and come with your camera so you can take pictures you can upload for your boss at Alausa.

And Eko Ile I have told you several times Lagos state has a budget of 499billion while Akwa Ibom has a budget of 470billion , so stop this deceit .

agbameta:


LOL @ giant strides. I wish development is all about building a few roads and throw the rest of taxpayers money on dumb stuff like private jets, abandoned projects, money pit called Tropicana and celibrities...

You are talking rubbish until you show us the giant strides hospitals, clinic, schools, water projects and I'm not talking about the bore hole that killed that poor man, non oil economy and IGR and things that really matters to the average folks.


Akpabio = Fraud.

This "Fraud" of a governor has built more than 4 times the total roads Fashola has anticipated building. He has built several bridges, reconstructed several KM of FG roads, renovated several public schools and hospitals, constructed several water works (including the borehole which killed someone), give out free and compulsory education to everyone including non-indigenes. He and his cronies have stolen alot that he even bought a jet,

yet saint Fashola hasn't stolen any money doesn't own any jet, but hasn't completed as many infrastructures as this fraudulent governor, yet he tolls you for the few roads and bridges you use, tax you for even the air you breathe, deport non indigenes because he can't cope with the population, and still put Lagos in a debt of over $600million . Ask yourself where is the money? Don't answer me, keep the response to yourself.

As for me, I will stick with this fraudulent governor anytime, any day instead of the saint you have as a governor .

Demdem:

I will post what I see either good or bad excluding good roads which I have already admitted that Akpabio builds. I am interested in other sectors. U don't need to crucify Eko ile, he didn't manufacture those pictures, they were gotten from Akwa ibom state websites itself and pictures of the fool pasted on those projects.
Why don't u also post pictures from ur land of fulfilment, at least u are there. Or don't they exist?

Easy Bro! You don't need to sound bitter to reply me. You can skip the roads cos they will be to numerous to capture . want you to pay attention to security , water works, public schools , hospitals and primary health centres, sanitation etc. Also try interviewing people for them to tell you the status of things 6yrs ago, so you can know why it's called uncommon transformation.

Demdem:

Akpabio world class waterworks.
https://www.nairaland.com/1331146/akpabios-world-class-water-works
Akpabio world class school
https://www.nairaland.com/1328283/akpabios-schools..pics
Akpabio world class hospitals
https://www.nairaland.com/1330582/akpabios-hospitals

God punish Devil.

Will try to take more pictures tommorrow. Am due to be in uyo tommorrow.

If u return from Uyo and you don't post the pictures of what you see here, then I will know your an irredeeemable hypocrite like Eko Ile. I wish you a safe trip to and from The land of fulfillment and a pleasurable stay.

please I have been going through the beautiful pictures of oyinbo men shaking Fashola but I still don't understand what is the essence of these pictures . I tried reading the topic, that even got me more confused. Please Eko Ile states don't have any part in international relations and diplomacy since these are the exclusive duties of the central government. Stop displaying your illiteracy while trying to promote your pay masters .

The oyinbo men shaking Fashola's hand are just ambassadors or foreign envoys whose diplomatic missions are in Lagos and are there on a normal courtesy call. If I am wrong prove to me what LASG has benefited since Fashola shook hands with all those oyinbo as far back as 2011.

enny5:

You still dont get the point. Yes we agree that agric exports have increased and a lesser percentage of the economy in dependent on oil now. Yes we agree to that. But the real problem is the that the annual overall GDP is still falling and not increasing. THAT IS THE PROBLEM!!! Bcoz the returns from the agric exports is not in our cash flow, they are in dangote's pocket. So the republic has no claim on the real returns from these exports. The only thing we have is the tarriffs and quota that dangote pays for xporting which can be seen as negligible.
Secondly, the sectors of the economy that are no more dependent on oil, what r they now dependent on? Foreign bodies? That is not reducing dependency on oil. It is just reducing direct dependency on oil. bcoz it is still revenues from oil that will pay these forign bodies in the end, it will just take another route on annual monetary diagram.

Please try answering my questions in the 1st paragraph. By the way I hope we are referring to the same country here, because everyone knows that our economic indicators has been on the positive recently. The only complains from Nigerians was that these beautiful economic figures haven't translated to reduction in unemployment, hence my earlier narration of how jobs would be created. But lemme give you the avoidance of doubt that our annual GDP is falling, please can you show us where you got this information. Would appreciate if you get us these data from as far back as 1999 till date.

enny5:

All those pics u see, those tins are not provided by Nigerian based companies and that is what is importan. MY GOD!!! are nigerians reli dis daft? Meaning 1) we are going to pay extra per unit cost of manufacturing/factors of production, 2) whatever you pay for provision of all those services u see online is not coming bak to the nigerian economy, it goes to foreign pockets and private citizens who own the company. When they say America & UK are fully developed countries, dey dont mean that they have roads or houses or light, it means dat they are sustainable enough to provide all these things for themselves and make available & affordable to their citizens ensuring that it is sustainable and consistent for ages to come. Economic development is ability of a nation to provide basic amenities to his citizens. not ability of a nation to employ foreign citizens to provide basic amenities to its citizens.
As long as we are not producing these tins ourselves, we are not developing. we are worse off. pls be wise. I can blive dat at ur age u would still ne deciecved by this pdp's 'working hard before elections' strategy. i tot all nigerians should be wiser by now. We are reli a low educated bunch.

wow. such an insightful post. But permit me to ask you these questions , Were we ever developed before? Did we have all these things 3 years ago before GEJ came into power? Seems the only thing GEJ has done is to go around destroying all the massive infrastructures we had? You just exhibited the highest level of cluelessness by posting such.

Unlike other people who would insult and abandon you, i will try to teach you some things about development especially in Nigeria . Before GEJ came into power our income was 90% dependant on oil, today it's reduced to about 65%. Yea that sounds Greek to you, what it means is that another sector of the economy has been revamped to help contribute to our income. Our agricultural exports have increased and the Govt is moving in to fill the next stage of the agricultural revolution which is building agro-allied industries so these agric produces could be processed in Nigeria and the refined products exported. Proof of this is the over 13 rice mills in the north, Dangote's tomato processing plant in Kano , the Chinese cassava processing mills.

All these would be run by human beings hence generate employment thereby creating wealth. However the government can't guarantee everyone Will be employed because either they don't have required skills or they aren't available for employment because they spend all day on Nairaland scooping negative news about their government .

bloggernaija:

You are the deluded one.
You can compare him to other Niger delta governors.
For what he is getting and a civil service that is less than the number of street cleaners in alimosho local government , he has done diddy squat..........nothing.
Even in term of road construction, we all know he comes very far behind "THE ONE"
Despite the very low population.

And from your arm chair in Lagos you were able to come up with this brilliant fact! Clap for yourself.

fados4sure:
Shut up your mouth.
Upon the corruption in the nation?
That means you want this country to be backward so that small small country will be making jest of us? BIG FOOL!

Talk your own and stop cursing .

After reading the story from our First lady and read the comments that follow I am shocked at the level of hypocrisy we have amongst our youths of today.

The woman explained that she "begged" Amaechi four years ago to dialogue with the Okrika people before demolishing there homes. My people what is wrong in interceding for your people? Even Queen Esther in the bible interceded on behalf of her people when they were to be killed. Did she break any law by begging Amaechi ? We should even note that at this time she wasn't first lady but wife to the vice president.

I agree some people would argue she should have gone to court, but people who know Amaechi will tell you that the man is radically stubborn and no court order would have prevented him from carrying out his wish, so PEJ, I believe towed the easy way which is persuasion.

She further stated how Amaechi removed a democratically elected LG chairman . This isn't news because we know how Amaechi suspended 13 LG chairmen for coming late to a meeting with him. If GEJ had replicated same dose of medicine to Amaechi especially for coming late to the last function in which 3 presidents were already seated before he came in, most of you here would call GEJ all sorts of unprintable names.

Nigerians , it's time we start reasoning from our own heads and not what we are fed with. People, especially politicians will always want to paint every scenario and person in a manner that it would be beneficial to them. Reasonable people would reach out to the people in Rivers state to hear first hand the genesis of the crises so as to learn a thing or two on how to avert such crises when we find ourselves as leaders, instead joining our shameless elders who have failed us in name calling .

Amaechi may have performed above average but in a democracy if you fail to carry your people along and disobey constituted authorities you are a dictator. Ghadaffi performed far better than most democratic but corrupt African leaders but he was still seen as a dictator.

It sad Nigerians enjoy finding faults in any good move their Government does. Most people commenting here and even the Op may have never transversed the Lagos- Abidjan road .

First thing you should note is that the Lagos- Ibadan road project is a total reconstruction and expansion with the introduction of bridges and necessary highway furniture, while the Lagos - Abidjan road project is just a project aimed at constructing some new road segments to add to some series of existing road network over several West African countries to form an unbroken chain of highway that would span from Lagos to Abidjan . Hence the total road constructed may never be up to 200km.

Secondly, since this is an international road, hence labour and materials rates will surely be different for the various countries. We all know operational rates in Nigeria is generally higher than most other west African countries because of our harsh business environment . For example we know how expensive diesel costs in Nigeria, we know how high our interest rates are, we know how high our labour rates are (compared to our west African brothers), we know construction companies spend a lot providing security and basic amenities for their personnel unlike in other west African countries .

Thirdly, we should consider the strength of the currencies of the various countries involved. Ask yourself what can $1000 do for you in Nigeria and ask a Togolese or even a Ghanaian what same amount can do for them. This greatly affects the price of the project since the various segments of the project will be awarded to contractors in the local currency of that country.

Lastly, we should consider the time element of construction . Mr President awarded Lagos - Ibadan to Julius Berger and RCC and needs the road completed as soon as possible. Big contractors such as the above selected are aware of the Govt urgency in completing the project , and they are also aware of the bearuacratic bottle-necks involved in getting funding from Government. Hence they have to plan that they may pre-finance the project, so when you include the cost of money in Nigeria (about 18%) to the cost of the project you end up with figures such as what we have .

Obasanjo awarded the project to BiCourtney at 99billion , 3 years later, there's nothing to show, now Mr President has not only tactically revoked the contract from the initial contractor (without causing a long legal battle since it was a concession agreement and money was spent by the initial contractor), he awarded it to two competent contractors just to speed up the completion time, and also redesigned the road to face modern realities on that axis, yet Nigerians are still complaining and calling him clueless. I wonder who is actually clueless .

prothelley:


You can as well mention up to ten local government that is 'well' developed like d Uyo and Essien Udim u passed.......or you can take a stroll from the bye-pass thru Uyo-Oron, thru Okobo down to Mbo and tell me if you are still in Akwa Ibom. Am not saying he's not anytin, but his NOISE of development of d entire Akwa is more than the development itself. Find out properly before u reply my post again.......no offence!

And for the records, am from Nung Esu, Ufok Nkobowo, Ekpene, Afaha-Eket, Eket local government. I was born and raised in Warri, Delta. I relocated back to AIB, last yr April when I heard of the almighty development going on, but to my greatest displeasure, I only mostly Uyo and few other places where d development is, and not the actual 'all roads in Akwa Ibom are tarred stuff' I ve been hearing. Pls travel down to other places, that's how you can compare what development really is. What we have here is just peanut compare to what comes into the state's treasury.

If you tell me Lagos and Imo is developed, I will stamped my 100percent agreement on it, cos recently I ve there, and things have REALLY changed, not just mouth talk. Because u just see fly over for the first time in ur state, ur head joor big........Okoro, abeg park well!

Lagos and Imo is 100% developed? No further comment

Itoroetti :
@t-something;I tend to agree partially on ur point raised.
Interms of procurement of goods from the "locals",I guess even they CCECC do not procure all their equipment from the "locals".offcourse u knw that cement procured in abj or lagos is same as d ones procured even behind the construction site,so why go that far to bring it all the way from lagos down to the site wen u can add values to the locals by patronising them?this,I guess not only reduces ur cost which cud be as a result of goods transportation,but will endure u to the locals which in turns will which to protect the companies items with or without the company requesting for such favour.so u see...

Funny enough cement isn't just cement , same way sand isn't just sand. Even from the same supplier, a batch of cement may posses some slightly different properties which may affect its strength positively or negatively. however those little variation due to material imperfections are taken care off during designing.

The kind of materials I was referring to are materials such reinforcements (popularly called iron rods) , additives , form work, etc

Itoroetti :
Fellow nairalanders,between this 2 giant in construction here in nigeria,which one do u think is the best and why?
Personally,I go for CCECC because their charges is low compare to berger.
Their work in akwa ibom supercedes that of berger interms of state of the art design.the recenty built the biggest round about in west africa in nung udoe just some kilometers after uyo.
I personally think that julius berger are bin over-hyped cos of the numbers of years they've spent in nigeria.
Bergers chargers for contract far exceeds that of CCECC.
Julius Berger is own by germany while CCECC is own by the current "economic world power" china.
Pls express your sincere view base on what u have seen so far.

This promises to be a very educational thread. But as an engineer and one privileged to have worked with one of both companies (Julius Berger ), I would say comparison should be based on many factors.
First of all, JBN charges exorbitant rates compared to CCECC, and this accounts for the amount of equipments and man power deplored to a site (most times some of these equipments aren't even necessary), while CECC is prudent with man power and equipment .
However the main way to compare the quality of works from both companies is to look at their quality control mechanisms.

Julius Berger has a serious quality control mechanism which internally audits the quality of all their materials , methods and works that's why you will always find a laboratory in all their sites and yards. They in addition have independent quality control units who visit all their sites from time to time.

On CCECC , I don't think they have such rigorous quality control mechanism because each project manager of a site is given full autonomy on his project. Meaning he is to manage the funds from the project and also ensure returns to the head office . So in this case, quality control relies on the perrogative of the project manager and the doggedness of the supervisory consultants and officials . I have worked as a consultant supervising CCECC on the World Bank assisted roads in Akwa Ibom, hence my knowledge of them.

Also if you notice procurement of materials in JBN is done centrally and then transported to the various sites, while CCECC procures materials locally and most times give these supply contracts to the locals where the sites are located in order to promote peaceful coexistence with their host community . Materials centrally procured tend to have better quality than those procured locally .

Hence its safe to say JBN still produces better quality than CCECC, however CCECC has proven they can produce quality jobs at cheaper rates but with strict supervision.

Beautiful thing about Akpabio's projects are that he doesn't start a project when he hasn't secured complete funds for the project . That way you can start and complete the project in record time, thereby putting the facility to use early, and recover investment on the project .

Kudos to Godswill Akpabio .




Meanwhile somewhere across the Niger, a governor just commissioned street lights, but is finding it difficult to complete a road of less than 20km even after 4yrs.

Eko Ile:


But it can never be Jonathan oponuchukwu abdul el Reterdeen because he doesn't process the capacity to float such idea and visionary project.

That otuoko dullard can not function beyond his laughable and stolen cassava bread idea...

And in your mind now you have said something sensible. I wish in many years to come you could show your kids the kind of comments you made on this forum, but alas i remembered some folks even in their old age still act and talk more stupid than kids. Fani Kayode on my mind.

ba7man: There is more to that bridge. I lived in view of that bridge for years and i know how people are robbed, raped and killed with their bodies thrown into the water consistently due to the darkness, everynight for decades. I still remember my mum having her gold chain snatched under that bridge with me in the car in the mid-80's. Also, stop mentioning Akwa-Ibom when Lagos is mentioned......Dem no be mate, is the whole Uyo as big as Ikeja alone??. One less major dark-spot for criminals to operate, what's not to celebrate??

Sorry Bro, I feel your personal attachment to the lights, also I never compared Uyo with Lagos , I only said I would learn to appreciate my Governor more because we never saw street lights lights like any big feat here.

In this state street lights are being powered and maintained by a department under Ministry of works. It so common to us, its just like a refuse truck coming to pick refuse , so pardon me if am surprised a Governor is commissioning street lights.

Seriously are we just discussing about street lights over a bridge alone or is there more to this news I can't see, because if there's this much noise over street lights then I can imagine what will happen when a bridge is completed. I guess I should start appreciating Akpabio more for the street lights on my street (Ewet Housing for people who wish to confirm ).

hehehehehe ! And a governor commissions street lights. the next news would be "Governor commissions ultra modern 24.hr walkway along Carter Bridge". Seriously Smh

Eko Ile:

Apabio was careless, irresponsible and reckless for lack of diligence per the kind of shady quacks and incompetent people and contractors he employs. He carelessly endangered the lives of his own people because of his incompetency and lack of care.

Unfortunately for the people of Akwa Ibom, this sorry man is more concerned about NGF and election rigging and other anti social activities.

What a sad loss for the dead. Smh...

Same way Oshimole is not only careless, but irresponsible and reckless for appointing a quack and incompetent contractor such as RCC, whose incompetence led to the collapse of the Specialist hospital project which killed over 30 people .

Even Fashola is even more incompetent for allowing his state building authority approve the modifications of buildings and neglected monitoring of these buildings which have continuously led to the collapse of buildings weekly in Lagos

From the kind of comments I have just read on this thread , it shows Nigeria may never be great , not because things won't change for the better but because some elements are constantly looking for bad news just to massage their ego and prove how good their preferred idol is over the people's elected leader.

Some people read that article and the only thing they could extract is that Akpabio is incompetent, meanwhile his name nor Akwa Ibom state government wasn't mentioned anywhere in the article . Even though a life was lost in this accident, they refuse to have any remorse or sympathy for the dead but instead advanced their evil political plot. We forget that accidents happen everywhere and even to the most competent contractor and governor. You can ask Oshimole, whose specialist hospital project had stopped work for over a year due to the collapse of the 4 floor structure . Contractor? RCC. Now someone should tell me they aren't competent.

One of the Idiots who claims to know Akwa Ibom state so well and lied to you that work on the specialist hospital had stopped and snapped pictures of the hospital project for you, was so ashamed to snap pictures of one of the water works directly opposite where he stood to take pictures of the hospital . Why? Either because its bigger than any water works his paymasters have hence he couldn't decipher what it stood for or because it would contradict his lies.

I have said it on several threads and would still repeat here, Akwa Ibom projects are for Akwa Ibom people to use and enjoy, and not for internet propaganda like some people do. We that voted Akpabio know the efforts of our government in transforming the state and it is marvelous in our sight, hence we are not obliged in anyway to post pictures to prove these don't care how someone who isn't here nor voted here feels about the state .

Lastly I want to say Rest in Peace to the dead and wish the injured speedy recovery.

ba7man: The Kalimba housing project in Angola can house 500,000 individuals and costed $2.2 billion to construct (Its a ghost town right now though). With the amount Akpabio receives as state allocation, he could have constructed a similar project half its size, a good road network, provided uninterrupted power supply and left the doors open for companies to struggle for space to get into Akwa-Ibom...He hasn't done anything major yet to make people flock in that direction for employment, that's why those roads are still empty. He needs a thriving population to make that State Economically viable or else all the infrastruture will remain under utillized.

My brother I would beg to disagree with you on your plan for increasing the economic base of Akwa Ibom.

First and foremost investors would like to situate their factories in areas where the cost of production should be fairly cheaper and have a good market or have means of transporting them to other markets. The government of AKSG has invested heavily into providing infrastructures not just for our immediate population of 5million people, but for the future. These infrastructures are linking up cities outside the capital city Uyo , making it easier for people to live in Abak or Ikot Ekpene and still work in Uyo .

The proposed Ibaka deep seaport is one of the few natural deep sea ports in the whole of Africa. Its location is strategic towards serving not just Nigerians but countries within the gulf of guinea. Also the Akwa Ibom airport, which is also to be a cargo and international airport, just recently got approval from Mr President to also serve as an agro airport for transporting perishable food items to markets. Don't forget the airport will also have an MRO (maintenance , repair and overhaul) facility , making it the only airport on the northern African hemisphere with such facility. All these will surely drive economic activities in the state .

Also the Government in trying to participate from the economic activities of its two neighbours (cross river and Abia ) is ensuring that all the roads linking these states are in a very good shape (even though they are FG roads ). Very soon a traveler from Aba would prefer to use the Akwa Ibom airport which may be farther than PH airport ,but because he's sure he can get to the airport in less than an hour in a world class dual carriageway without traffic .
An importer in Aba would prefer to use the Ibaka sea port for landing his containers, instead Lagos port considering the transportation cost.

So you see my brother , this government isn't building for the present , but for the future Akwa Ibom state

ba7man: I strongly disagree with you. You can't expect them to operate at the same speed when the projects they are initiating and problems they're encountering aren't on the same scale. Fashola has to deal with over population(x4) of what Akabio has to deal with, congested roads, building clusters, slums, illegal market encroachments and lawless individuals......meanwhile Akpabio just bulldozes virgin lands and starts work.....all on the same amount. Akpabio has far less challenges to worry about. And work is on-going in all those lagos projects you mentioned. You don't expect a city to rise out of the Ocean in around 5 years, do you?.....BTW, that Badagry Express road has always being in ruins till the Fashola administration decided to fix it. And you saying the elevated rail line proves you've not been to Lagos in a long time. The concrete footings are there for all to see and workers are always on site.

Please do your research well. Eko Atlantic city is fully funded by private bodies. Lagos state counterpart funding comes in the form of the taxes leveraged for the inventors and contractor. Fashola has never released any dime for that project and the project was initially conceived to curb the ocean surge on Victoria Island residents

Eko Ile: This is the same state where the main source of portable water supply is borehole

This is the same state where learning environment for schools kids remains old and sub par with zero investment in modern schools and learning facilities..

This is the same state where hospitals are 50 years.....



This man is obviously obsessed with ego projects and his own personal fancies and not his people's basic needs.

N70 billion and still unfinished Tropicana is a money pit.. N70 billion is more than enough to build many new schools, hospitals, skills and acquisition center and general manpower development.


The $45 million he spent on his private jet is more than enough to provide the above stated basic needs and amenities..

The still unfinished stadium has gulped tens of billions of Naira with no end in sight

The still unfinished airport has gulped tens of billions with of Naira with no end in sight.

The above is notoriously termed tying money down, meaning unproductive investment, meaning wasted money that's of no use to the people, money than can not provide essential and basic amenities.

These projects are nothing but obsolete personal monuments created to serve and stroke just one man's ego.


This is just too sad and unfortunate..

sorry