AyakaDunukofia:


What is more important in the Enugu airport issue is whether the FG government's concerns are valid. Are these concerns in the interests of Ndi Enugu, Ndigbo and the entire Nigerians? The answer is YES.

Regardless of any perceived hidden agenda of the government, an abattoir in the vicinity of an airport would attracts birds which are dangerous to aeroplanes. Telecommunication masts standing on the approach of airplanes are recipes for disaster. A market close to an airport is dangerous. An international airport without water supply is terribly dangerous. Buhari will win this argument anytime anywhere.

I was one of the excited Igbos that boarded Ethiopian airlines in the early days (9/2013) from Enugu to Addis Ababa, so the airport is very important to me as a person. But I also have to think safety.

I follow Enugu airport news almost daily. I don't believe Buhari has any intention to close the airport. His minister of aviation had respectfully visited Ugwuanyi several times in the past 18 months to find solutions to these salient issues. But unfortunately Ugwuanyi kept sleeping over the matter, until he suddenly woke up after the FG announced that it's set to close the airport. Ugwuanyi suddenly remembered he could use his executive order to shut down the market. That he could use the state's enforcement machinery to implement the enforcement of the removal of the masts.

It is instructive to hear the minister a few months ago confirm that five first class airlines including Delta, Emirates and British have indicated their interest to fly to Enugu. I can't believe a minister of a government that want to close an airport would reveal this. Air peace owned by our own Dr. Allen Onyema has since announced that Enugu will be their hub.

Again, the minister said they told Ugwuanyi that Ekulu river would solve the water problem, and appealed to him to facilitate piping the water while they (FG) extend the runway from the reclaimed lands, and fix the lights and others. What would it cost Enugu state government to pipe untreated water from Ekulu river to the airport? Considering the huge revenue a fully functional international airport would bring to Enugu state through different channels?

It is pathetic that ndibeanyi have gotten used to playing reactionary humiliating politics.

The airport has been in operation for decades! Is it just last year they discovered all these issues they're raising one after the other?

Hadi-Sirika was forced to visit the airport and the governor last year when members of the national assembly from the south-east complained about the poor state of infrastructure at the airport. What has been done since then to upgrade said infrastructure and operations at the airport? Why can't they do with Enugu and Owerri airports the same thing they did with Abuja and Kaduna airports about two years ago when they upgraded infrastructure at Kaduna airport and then transferred int'l flights there while they closed down Abuja airport and faced its runway squarely? Is it because Enugu is a 'second-class city' belonging to a 'second-class and conquered people' and hence doesn't deserve the same attention airports in Fulani and Yoruba regions get?

Of course i've always maintained part of the blame goes to our ineffectual elite that don't know how to fight our corner, hence giving Igbo haters like Buhari and his relative Hadi-Sirika the excuse to carry out their dark agenda against us! If Hadi-Sirika raised the issue of abattoir and mast last year, why is it that it's when talk of shutting down the airport and downgrading its status to a local airport surfaced that Ugwuanyi finaly did what he should have done days after that first visit last year? They now came up with a useless excuse of the youths preventing a whole state and federal gov't from relocating the mast....can you imagine? This is the same federal gov't that doesn't waste time in sending down battalions of soldiers to mow down protesting Igbo youth if they as much as say Biaf.... or refere......! Meanwhile the military that are equally impeding operations at the airport haven't moved same way they expect the market, abattoir and mast to move!

What do you have to say about Hadi-Sirikas statement that Ibadan is to the west.....as Benin is to the south-south...as Kaduna is to the north....and as Enugu is to the east...thereby downgrading AIIA Enugu to a second-tier airport? Forgetting that it's the only int'l gateway the Igbos/south-east have unlike the Yoruba that have Lagos and the Fulani that have Kano, Abuja and Kaduna. This wouldn't have been an issue if they didn't wickedly remove Igbo stake in Port Harcourt after the uncivil war, and we still saw the city the same way the Yoruba see Lagos and the Fulani see Kano, Kaduna and Abuja!

How about the new terminal at Enugu that work on it stopped as soon as Buhari took over, while those in Port Harcourt, Lagos, Kano and Abuja have either been finished and opened or are about to be? What excuse do you have to give on this one to defend your friend Buhari and his evil party?

Watching the video i attached, you will see where mention was made of the fact that the existing terminal is a glorified bus-stop and a disgrace to airports the world over! Facilities have been rundown and the entire airport has just been neglected....this is four years now into the administration of Buhari and APC! You posit that Igbos complaining about Buhari and APCs evil agenda against Ndigbo have no reason to....that we're crying wolf, and hence we should STFU! Basically beating a child and not expecting it to cry!

You see what i mean when i say Nigeria is holding Igbos down, while it unfairly and disproportionately favours other peoples and regions? Because we're in 'one Nigeria' we cannot now have a standard int'l gateway! Ethnic groups in countries like Rwanda, Ghana, Botswana and even the UAE are no better than Ndigbo....the only difference between them and us is that they're not trapped in a country with groups that hate their guts and who effectively enact policies to hold them down and stifle their progress!

Was watching NTA Newsline, and saw Hadi-Sirika at Ibadan airport to launch the refurbished terminal there.

He said something that reveals the plans these northern 'owners of Nigeria' have for Ndigbo and AIIA Enugu. He coldly said, '......what Kaduna is to the north...what also Enugu is to the east...as well as Benin to south-south....and to what Ibadan is to the west. We cannot grow bigger, and can't run faster than our brothers'!

You shouldn't read the above statement in isolation, but in the context of the plans to close and downgrade operations at AIIA, Enugu! I've said it before, that when GEJ and Senator Oduah upgraded operations at AIIA, Enugu; got Ethiopian to be serving the airport; and almost finished building the new int'l terminal at the airport.....Buhari and his relation Hadi-Sirika would have been watching proceedings with a rising wave of anger, jealousy and indignation! Hadi-Sirikas' statement above clearly shows their view as to who gets a working int'l airport and who doesn't is based on this stupid sharing formula (a formula that i don't even know how and why it became the norm) that everything should be shared equally between the north and the south. Apparently, some are forgetting that on the day of 'independence' in 1960, that there were two regions in the south as against one in the north....but slyly and while no one was paying attention, these northern muslim 'oeners of Nigeria' have made it such that things should now be shared equally between the north and the south.

Hadi-Sirikas' thinking (which got him and Buhari furious and determined to cut those 'nyamurees' to size) is that since Senator Oduah was giving Kano and Abuja new terminals in the north, she and GEJ had no business giving Lagos, Porth Harcourt as well as Enugu same, as this would now mean the north is being cheated when the tradition (please don't ask me how and when this tradition became accepted as the norm 'cos i don't know) is that things should be shared equally between the north and the south! This so called 'tradition' isn't even being fairly adhered to in many areas where you'll discover Alaigbo/Ndigbo are being shortchanged in politics, governance, spread of industries and spread of nation building institutions...but i digress!

From the time they took over, Buahri and Hadi-Sirika (his relative) must have been plotting how to bring AIIA Enugu down a peg or two! The fact Ndigbo would not have a int'l gateway in or out of their region and would then have to negotiate the deathtraps that are Nigerian roads (that are brimming with all manner of horrors and evil) just to travel in or out of their region...the fact they would have to endure all this doesn't register with Buhari and his relative; after all, the Igbos are a 'conquered people' and their region is 'second-class'.....ranked after those of the Yoruba and Fulani!

You do have to wonder how those naive, self-centred Igbos in that evil anti-Igbo party called APC, and those still shouting 'one Nigeria'...how they manage to sleep at night.

Attached is a Youtube clip courtesy of Njenje Media TV that succinctly captures my sentiments on this issue!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Cs_rwtflc

Honor10:


independent republic of Biafra will kill herself in 5 years, so much disunity.

I suppose as against your 'peaceful one Nigeria' that's a shining beacon of unity to the entire human race abi?

hollah123:
is it d abia that a fellow igbo described as d curse of the nation with those damaged roads n no infrastructure? or d overhyped anambra? though chinua Achebe said igbos are boastful n they exaggerate alot, now I believe him. but all d same I need to know your weed supplier

Quit sounding like a buffoon and point out specifically which parts of Kettykins’ post you have a problem with!

Is it his assertion that he doesn’t think there are more than four states in the country more industrialised than Anambra and Abia? Is that what’s eating you up? What’s ‘boastful’ about that? Oya mention five states more industrialised than the two south-east states...i’m waiting!

Do Igbos boast more than the Yoruba or Fulani?

Built2last:
Okay.

On another news

DOWNGRADING ENUGU AIRPORT IS AN AFFRONT AGAINST IGBOS

You want to play politics with economic growth APC

You want to downgrade Enugu International airport...the ONLY international Airport that services the South East States because of "safety."

Did you shut down an airport in an active terrorist zone? even after that Airport was attacked by terrorists and military helicopters destroyed?

I dont like to post like this but this is getting out of hand...if this Airport was in Lagos or Kano with the same "safety concerns" ......would you downgrade it?

You are asking the free trade zone be relocated? to where? Zamfara? is the nearness to an INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT not a key reason why many will site their factory in an inland Free Trade Zone?...

(The Enugu Free Trade Zone is the ONLY FTZ in the entire SE states... All States and Regions have one, some even two....but I digress)

When the South East got this International Airport I remember the pride, joy and excitement.....over a "common airport".....many posted.....they can never understand.....like saying the Second Niger bridge is a "common bridge"

Why is is that Projects that impact the South East have issues?

Second Niger Bridge was the only major stopped for "review" by Infrastructure Commission wasting 2 solid years

Dredging of the entire river Nigeria to create a massive port in Onitsha need Environmental Impact Assessment.

All these actions can delay but cannot stop the economic growth of the SE, rather that building speed bumps, go and build expressways, that growth is Nigeria's growth.

That question asked, I will state this proverb to the Enugu State Government, "if you are near fire, dont rub palm oil on your own body..".

Relocate the market, remove the mast...maybe they will then say it's too hilly for International flights.

Before you ask...yes I am playing the victim card....so post something else....we know you love Nigeria more than I.

They will always come up with reasons and excuses why federal projects for the south-east are cancelled or delayed! It’s easy in a country like Nigeria (and if the hate and envy is strong) to find one reason or the other to do this!

Funnily enough they don’t encounter such issues when it comes to the south-west of north!

emror4u:
Each team I pass through Owerri and see some substandard civil engineering jobs done, especially government contracts, I Marvel.
From flyovers to roads, buildings, even ordinary road dividers.. Damn!, I just hope they won't lead to loss of precious lives in the nearest future.

You’re not the only one to notice this! For every two jobs Rochas does right, there’s about four substandard ones to cancel them out!

Very frustrating!

Odingo1:


You are the tribalistic one here oga, your statement is filled with hatred. Airport that have been in operation for years, all of a sudden abattoir have started endangering life of a traveling public, why not leave the airport and ensure that mast and abattoir is removed, while been in a hurry to downgrade the airport.

That guy you’re exchanging words with is a rabid Igbo hater! Any wonder he’s in total support of the shutting down or downgrading of operations at the only international gateway in Alaigbo?

You’re wasting your time with him!

Am i the only one finding it a bit annoying when all these kinsfolk say that you need to come and see their own villa’...that it’s da bomb, and the likes of Abiriba can’t hold a candle to it!?

I guess we’ll just have to take their word for it since they couldn’t be assed to take any pics/videos and upload!

ChristianNorth:
Remove bad road from SE and you would see resilience in all its glory.

Good will punish all the stupid leaders.

Leadership....or rather lack of it, has always been our problem! That, coupled with having to operate in a political-economy that’s anti-Igbo!

See how our so called members of the National Assembly and Governors from the south-east haven’t said kpim! The efulefu Igbos in APC that claim Igbos need to be represented in APC...that we shouldn’t put all our eggs in one basket have said fuc’k-all!

People like me that know all what Buhari and APC is about ain’t surprised one bit!

After now, people castigating Ndigbo for having no time for these wicked people will begin to feign ignorance of their wickedness towards us and be asking ‘why do Igbos dislike Buhari and APC?’

QueenSekxy:

If you are Igbo, please stop this.
And don't give those haters opportunity to spoil this thread like they did to Igbo pan socio economic thread.
Best is to ignore their hate.

There are some impostors here purporting to be Igbo, and their job is to derail threads like this!

How it works is that a Igbo hating bigot that hates threads like this that show Alaigbo in a good light will switch to his 'Igbo' moniker and make a caustic and insulting comment about say Yoruba villages....and seconds later he will switch back to his Yoruba moniker and the derailing of the thread commences!

Of course, you do have the occasional stupid Igbo guy that can't control himself as well and gives these Igbo haters the excuse they're looking for to derail the thread!

Stingman:


Rwanda has a good leader. Just see how far they have gone after a few years of genocidal war? Lagos with trillion budget and with huge funds generated from its seaport, Apapa to MMIA road is a tragedy. Nigeria is unserious country and I am ashamed of it.

Nigerias' biggest handicap is that it's too big, heterogeneous and complicated to be managed centrally the way it is.

KingOfallOsu:



Pained losers lol

Did I intimidate you with those pictures?

This is Osogbo in Osun State

Dude, why do you wait for Igbos to start a thread on their cities and villages before diving into your folder for pics of Yoruba towns and villages to upload? Why don't you start and sustain your own thread/s on this?

horsepower101:
Some parts of Osumenyi village, Anambra state

The camera quality ruined the pics a bit.

horsepower101:
If only the local government can tar the roads in the village. Individuals have also done most of the infrastructures.

I bow down to umuigbo that invest their okpo back home.

This is the story of development in our local gov'ts and villages: development is mainly driven by individual effort....which is not bad in itself as that's how it should be. But the little the local and state gov'ts are supposed to do, they're usually found wanting!

horsepower101:


I need to. There are so many hidden gems in Ala-Igbo that a lot of us don’t know until we travel for weddings.

I think we should have a picture thread for Igbo villages only.

We had that 2....3 years ago. It's just not been updated.

AmericanQuarter:



Heard the new VC is a member of deeper life.

He looks the part!

goodnessme1:
But come to think about this,

the same people who killed Abiola are the people pressing our mumu key with june 12,and we yorubas are happy.



I refuse to be fooled.

Hehehehehe

You've sussed them out well well!

I've said it, that Buhari doesn't give a Bleep about Abiola or no Abiola...june 12th or no june 12th! He's just attached himself to the june 12 circus to hoodwink the Yoruba into believing he's a democrat and that he cares!

Wasn't he on the planet when all this was happening from 1993 up to 1998 when the fulani mafia poisoned Abiola? What did he say on the matter? Didn't he serve in the same Abacha administration that's responsible for locking Abiola up? What did he say on the matter then?

Meanwhile, work has stopped at the new int'l terminal in Enugu. It's not been touched since Buhari took over in 2015...while the ones in Kano, Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt have either been finished and launched or about to be!

'One equitable, fair and just Nigeria'...don't you just love it!?

Altern8:


Keep your myopic conspiracy theories yourself.

It is just maintenance. Nothing more.

Nobody has time to be hating on you or your ethnic group. Rubbish.

We can imagine your story if those repairs were not carried out. Kindly keep your fairy tales yourself neega.

So the repairs that were done about two years ago when the airport was shut down over the christmas period, what was that one about? They used roadside labourers to do the job, and now it's spoilt again they want to revisit it?

Dude, you're happy about the downgrading/closing of operations at AIIA Enugu....quit pretending! Wear your bigotry with pride!

As they mentioned billions to be used to maintain the Lagos airport, why didn't the mention a figure for that of AIIA Enugu? I get it....we're second-class people who have to wait in line until the Yoruba and Fulani have got theirs first! And when we do get anything, it dare not be of equal scale and scope as the ones done in Yoruba and Fulani lands! I understand now!

This is why i say our elite are the most useless! Onyejiocha is even head of the aviation committee in the house isn't she? Imagine if a Igbo president and Igbo avaition minister oversaw the downgrading of the airport in Kano while giving the one in Enugu attention....no guesses for saying what the reaction of the Fulani elite would be!

I said it long before that demon 'won' the 2015 election that if by omission or commission Buhari and his band of Igbo hating bigots take over power in 2015, that our collective aviation goose would be well and truly cooked! That all the gradual changes and status upgrades Senator Oduah and GEJ brought to AIIA Enugu (which were making Igbo haters seeth in anger as this wasn't part of the script written in the late 60s to subjugate Ndigbo)....that all this gains would be reversed! The moment i saw Buhari appoint his relation Hadi-Sirika as aviation minister i knew my prediction would come to pass!

This is why i laugh at Igbos still stupid and gullible enough to believe in 'one Nigeria' and expect to be treated fairly and equally with the other two major ethnic groups!

And that’s Nigeria summed up nicely for you: a shithole where the presidency is allocated based on which ethnic group is considered ‘serious’ and which is not!

phonemakemoney:
TOBI PHILLIPs has YORUBA and IGBO Parents stop the tribalism NCAN.

Hehehehe

See how they’re dragging the poor girl from left to right! Funnily enough, if this girl (with the very same names) was accused of peddling drugs, you’d have seen these very same people tossing her back and forth like you see in a cartoon when two characters are tossing a primed grenade back and forth in fear between each other!

BuhariAdvocate:
Tobi is that not a yoruba name.

Hehehehe

Sorry, just couldn’t suppress a chuckle on reading this one!

It’s like this man hasn’t got something better to do with his time!

tsdarkside:


you mean cownunu who promised your elders to go abuja to get buharis head....??

ofcourse una will deny that too....

we saw the video,its online....

you igbos are not that smart....in the age of massive information,you igbos like boasting too much....

even if una speak only igbo to each other,we will translate it and know what you are doing....

game over....

Zip it, fool! He was speaking figuratively!

How about your god talking nonsense of baboons and monkeys dancing in blood on the streets or whatever it was he said....a speech for which innocent southern Christians were slaughtered in cold blood in 2011? How about that!?