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The Governor of Anambra State Dr. Mbadinuju (Odera) is skilfully destroying the state. For some months now the schools has not been in section and we keep on complaining that our people are not educational minded any longer. He is discouraging the children who still has interest in eduation.
His slogan and vision is for 2003 election. We have said no election in South East come 2003. That is by the way.
On pension people: He has not paid them for some months now. When they called on him. He called them "Dead woods" that they should not make noise.
Education: The schools has been on strike because of non payment of their salaries for months. I do ask how are they surviving? The teachers said that they rae having sit down strike, He Mbadinuju told them that "sit down strike" they will still have "lie down strike". He is not even moved to redeem the school system which already bad.
Water: The water coperation staff has been on strike since six months now, so now pipe bore water for the state.
All we hear from him is religious preaching on radio. His favouite song "Gbagharau, Gbaghara m, Eze ebube Gbaghara m", One begin to wonder that the man is aware of his atrocities.
His program now is collecting funds from the communities that want local governement and its headquaters. From our estimate wht they have collected now is enough to finance 25% of his 2003 election campagin. The communities pays to be given local governement.
The people of the State are even asking if they can have a better governor, that Dr. and Phd holders that have been ruling them have failed them. One can't see any effect of democracy in Anambra State.
Mbadinuju loves to talk. Nothing wrong with that except that words sometimes need to be matched with actions.
Like his Abuja counterparts he lives under the illusion that the Igbo nation will be deceived by his multitude of words. No blooming way!
Mbadinuju "declared" public holidays for T-W-O days in honour of General Obasanjo. This is the same guy who refused the entire Igbo nation the use of Uli for a brief memorial ceremony for the Biafran victims of Obasanjo's brutality.
I was surprised when the bloated dwarf called Sani son-of-A-bacha closed down all the institutions of learning in BiafraNigeria pending the out-come of his self-succession referendum. But for a guy who boasts a PhD (or is it PhZ) and has a column in the Lagos-Abuja dailies, I'm simply gob-smacked that he'll shut down the state lest workers embarrass him before his master.
He is learning fast from Obasanjo as well. Workers demanding their hard-earned wages are "agents" of his detractors. Nice try.
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Honest self evaluation is the most effective parameters with which progress or lack thereof is measured and corrective actions taken. I am solidly intoned with Prof Soludo’s comments. Just like achike udenwa and orji kamalu sent Imo and Abia states twenty years backward, mbadinuju/ngige and all the past awusa military caretakers destroyed once prosperous cities of, Onitsha, Awka and Nnewi. Ndiigbo. About time we collectively deal decisively with the likes of achike udenwa - Imo, orji kalu - Abia, chimaroke nnamani – Enugu and every other efulefu, young or old. Absent of any meaningful retroactive search and destroy of these guys, Igbo land will continue to be a mecca for them and their children after all, “ihe agwo muru, ga eyi agwo” as our wise people of years past say.
quote: Anambra, 'dying city'—SOLUDO
By Anayo Okoli Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Awka— The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Charles Soludo has described his home state, Anambra as “a dying city”, saying that three major cities of the state, Awka, Nnewi and Onitsha have failed.
Soludo said the state failed because there was no proper planning for it. According to Prof. Soludo, Anambra State has all the potentials of being a successful state in the area of economic and social development, but regretted that it failed due to lack of planning. Delivering a paper entitled, “Envisioning the African Dubai, Taiwan and Silicon Valley” at the just concluded 2nd Anambra Development Summit, the Central Bank governor called for a collective action to make the state an enviable one.
Soludo blamed Anambra problem on poor infrastructure, like transport and electricity, and insecurity of lives and property, which he said is making investment unattractive. He also blamed it on the demographics of the state which he said separated the educated elite from the traders as well as on the continued brain drain from the state into other parts of the world. “It is evident that Anambra is a classic case of failure of collective action. Anambra has not stopped growing, it has all the symptoms of a dying city. With the limited land mass and the growing population, there will continue to be pressure to migrate out of the state if this “push factor” continues to be exacerbated by the unattractiveness of the state, we face the imminence of a dying state. This will be tragic especially given the abundant human capital of the people.
"Onitsha is a failed city, with a mass of building lying as ‘dormant or dead’ capital. As the largest city in the South East, how many Europeans, Americans or Asians live in Onitsha? This is an important index. A living city will always attract and retain foreigners". ““Onitsha has no single suitable recreational facility, no open spaces, no sewage and waste disposal system and not planned for people to live a qualitative life. It has turned into one big, albeit chaotic, littering of shops and dustbins. The air is polluted and I will be surprised if Onitsha does not have one of the lowest life expectancy in Nigeria. ““What about Nnewi? What has happened to the momentum of the 1980s and 1990s towards becoming the Taiwan or Japan of Africa? Today, another array of dead capital liters Nnewi and environs---catamose industries. Again, the failure of Nnewi to sustain the momentum points to the consequences of failure to plan. ““Awka is fast growing into another Onitsha, a large village without a plan. Is there any planned neighborhood in Awka and environs with at least 2000 plots of land, each measuring at least 2000-3000 metres (the kind of space elites would need), and with basic facilities for recreation, health and schooling. As a newer state one would have expected greater rigour in planning of modern city.
The opposite has happened. The message here is that the current structure of Anambra is such that it does not attract but repels the educated elite and middle class, without whom you can’’t build a modern and prosperous state. ““The basic social infrastructure has collapsed. There is no accredited state hospital and Anambra state (once known for first class schools) does not come up for mention when people are looking for very good schools for their children. So, what kind of future are we preparing for the succeeding generation, where are the future leaders of the state being trained and what kind of education do we receive?””, Soludo wondered. He call for a collective action to develop the state and make it an enviable one.
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I was very vocal at the onset in predicting that Soludo’s appointment by the Yoroba fascist will soon catapult him to an Igbo leader cum expert on Igbo affairs. I'm not totally impressed with Charlie Sholudo's detached analysis. He could have sustained my interest if his topic was Urban Planning and Environmental Management in Anambara.
It is however, very unfortunate that he made only a passing remark on the impact of electricity, good roads/transport network and the rapid Nnewi/Onicha “taiwanisation” of the 80s and 90s. I suspect Charlie boy is symptomatic of the current crop of highly paid Igbo civil servants whose sole purpose is to make a yoroba moron look good in the eyes of the world. The Nnewi industrial revolution was driven by the trio of Kalu Idika Kalu, Chu Okongwu and Pius Okigbo under IBB’s regime. The decline started in 1999(do the math or contact Ibeto). That was the era of FEM (Forex management) and Prof Godian Ezekwe of PRODA was driving the Science & technology ministry. Under Yoroba’s Obasanjo hundreds of Igbo banks and businesses have gone under. Yet we are all supposed to rejoice because the Yoroba newspapers say so.
It is absolute tosh to suggest that the reason foreigners do not stop in Onicha/Nnewi is because of waste. Fact: The bulk of the world’s waste (and I mean harmful electronic) is to be found in the streets and along the rivers of China and India.
Piles of computer waste are found in Chinese streets
Soludo goofed up by suggesting conditions such as sizes of plots of land to attract his imaginary lazy elites to their ancestral home. The elite who cannot afford the size of land he requires should work harder and save up. It is Soludo’s dangerous reasoning backed by baba Iyabo’s obnoxious land use decree that has seen cowards like Udenwa and Kalu carve up the virgin outskirts of Owerri, Umuahia and Aba for their lazy elite friends. Intellectual thugs like Chima Nnamani went one better and named the new elite areas after himself! Alice pass me the sick bag.
O I forgot some of our Igbo sons are doing their best like Ojo Maduekwe who as transports minister for baba Iyabo built us the Enugwu light rail and River Niger Port. Seven years and counting the River Niger-Onicha-Owere road is still “under construction”. Eji kwam ogu O!
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Ndewo nnam, what really can I say after going through yours that was full of wisdom. Put it like this, you made a better and outstanding argument than the previous and to add to yours is to adulterate it. I can see clearly now that the rain is gone… sang Jimmy Cliff. Good J.O.B.
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Soludo deliberately and rather dubiously sidestepped the real issue in his talk on Taiwanisation, Dubainisation and siliconisation. I’m sure he is aware that no serious discourse on his chosen topic will shift the burden of blame from his doorsteps and the moronic regime he serves.
Dubai like Singapore is essentially a highly accessible and convenient commercial melting port. The keyword is accessibility. If baba iyabo respected Kema Chikwe and Ojo Maduekwe enough to allow them internationalise the Enugwu airport indeed and make onicha Niger a seaport the rest would have naturally followed. What you had was that the cowardly Yoroba Moron even had to access Amichi with a Chopper to demand a monument on the place where he allegedly received his father’s genitals from one Effiong.
The failure of Taiwanisation and Siliconisation is a clear and eloquent testimony to the poverty of imagination and goodwill on the part of the baba Iyabo junta. The required raw materials are very energy intensive and prices have shown a very steep rise owing to the higher cost of energy (read crude oil & natural gas). It is difficult for people in industrialised nations and more so for the guy in Nnewi who will also pay through his nose to source his own energy after paying dearly for copper from abroad.
Soludo and his master are clearly not perturbed as they make silly noises on the financial reserve they have built up from the high cost of crude and gas while the poverty index spirals upwards! How many times have you seen developed nations give money to car manufacturers just to encourage them to keep contributing to the lives of the citizens and the economy at large? Soludo isn’t sure about the life expectancy of the inhabitants of Onicha. That’s his funeral but I’m aware that one in five BiafraNigerian child will die before the fifth birthday.
It took a little South African priest Des Tutu to show the world the farce that was debt settlement and debt relief. You borrowed $17B and then said to still owe $35.9B after you’d already paid $20B. And then in the midst of the frightening statistics and disgusting 90,000,000 citizens living in abject poverty you go on to make a lump payment of $12.4B. This is the same mob that shut down a so called nation for one week for a manual head count of people whose birth are supposed to have been registered in the first place. Baba Iyabo must go down in history as the least productive of all cowardly despots.
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Ndewo, I can attest to your predictions on Soludo. Well, Igbo leader come Igbo leader go, the clown at Nigerian breweries has already received the booth for his stupidity. The day is coming when Soludo's new fans will turn on him.
Oh have you also heard the chorus from the Lagos/Ibadan type on Okonjo for president ? I believe she too would soon be coming to Aba to chastise you folks for being lazy!
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That was masterful as usual, of course Soludo will have to impress his boss Baba Iyabo. Your piece said it all.
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Did you listen to Okonjo lady last time on NPR?. She is worst than home grown politician. She had the audacity to say that "people are not get burned alife from oil pipeline because of poverty". That just because somebody is poor doesn't mean they have to go siphon gas from pipeline. What planet is she living in.
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People should learn to let certain small stuff go especially so when submission to a greater argument has been made. I don't see any Soludo's fan here so take that and shove it!!
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Biafra Aremu’s arrogance seems to have robbed off on the woman, I guess the poor petrol thieves deserved it.This is how they started praising Chikwe for cleaning the toilet and fixing the AC at MM when basic infrastructure remains lacking at Sam Mbakwe airport. There will always be some folks who will not think deep only to rush here to help spread the Lagos/Ibadan manufactured propaganda as a solution to the Igbo problem.
You can imagine how their so called reforms will yield results in situation where most of Igbo land will be without power for the forseable future. Soludo and co. should try tackling this first and Onitsha will rise up to the challenge
-------------------------------------------------- Outage to hit six South-South, South-East states From Madu Onuorah, Abuja
FOR the nation's electricity consumers in six states of the South-East and the South-South, it is more bad news as the Minister of Power and Steel, Mr. Liyel Imoke reported the collapse of the Onitsha-Aba-Alaoji 330 kv power line.
Imoke announced after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa Abuja that the states affected were Abia, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Bayelsa, Cross River and Rivers.
The power line collapsed on Tuesday night and will cause acute short supply of electricity to the affected states till the next one month when the repair is expected to be completed, if it goes according to schedule.
The minister also noted that the pipelines supplying gas to the power stations, which were vandalised on January 18 this year, had not been fixed.
He also said that the collapse of the power transmission line was caused by an earlier vandalised pipeline fire.
But the area will not be in total blackout as it will be getting light supply of electricity from the Afam Power station located in Rivers State.
The incident, Imoke stated, would compound the already low power supply situation in the country. Current loss of power is estimated to be 7000 megawatts following the vandalisation of gas pipelines in the Niger Delta by militant youths.
He put the current peak supply of electricity to the nation at about 2900 megawatts but he is optimistic that the 2007 supply target of 10,000 megawatts will be achieved despite current hitches.
According to him: "Unfortunately, we are reporting another unfortunate incident in the power sector. Last night, there was an incident in the South eastern part of the country and this morning we received a report from the Managing Director of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) that the lines between Onitsha and Aba-Alaogi had collapsed. Five major 330 kv towers collapsed. The implication of that is that those states that are supplied with power through the towers would be adversely affected for quite some time. The states that would be adversely affected will include Abia State, parts of Imo State, Akwa Ibom State, Cross River State, Rivers State and parts of Bayelsa State that we are just connecting to the national grid.
"What we have is an incident that appears to have occurred as a result of the heat that was generated from the vandalisation of pipeline which resulted in a fire incident that has affected the conductors on our heavy transmission lines and has caused the collapse of five towers."
Other decisions taken at the FEC meeting presided over by President Olusegun Obasanjo and attended by Vice President Atiku Abubakar include approval for contracts for the pilot scheme of the electronic voter register.
Four firms won the bid namely Philip Parker/Indira, Bionica Technologies, Ansa System Nigeria Ltd and System Dynamic Ltd. The four pilot schemes cost of N58 million each.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mr. Frank Nweke (Jnr.), said that the electronic voters register would however, take effect after the 2007 general elections.
He said: "What we are trying to do is done in most countries of the world where you do not actually carry voters card. When you have registered, you do not have to carry your voter's card. Your picture and fingerprint are taken and when it is time to vote, you go back to the place where you registered and you put your fingerprint there and if your intention is to vote, a small ticket is issued from that machine at the polling station and it is this that small ticket that will then qualify you to go ahead and cast your vote.
"We are all aware of the challenges that we have faced in the past in the issue of managing our resources. This is a conscious effort on the part of government and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to bring all of this to a close. Unfortunately, this is not going to be used for the 2007 elections. It is only a pilot scheme."
Another decision taken at the FEC meeting was a review of limit of financial authority for the various levels of management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
According to Nweke, a memo will soon be forwarded to council by the oil agency through the President in his capacity as Minister of Petroleum for an upward review of approval limits going by the scope of jobs within the corporation and the relative value of the local currency.
Nweke also said that approvals were given for the procurement of electronic data system for the National Health Insurance Scheme to be known as NHIS enterprise scheme at the cost of N378.35 million; and flood control project in Aluko in Kwara State at the cost of N344.9 million.
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Is this Nweke guy for real, this guy must have been smoking too much of that Obasanjo stuff. Yes Flood project in Aluko Kwara state, when erosion is distroying many parts of Igbo land.
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I’m glad I’ve made my point and anyone who wants to engage in self-fight can go on and on about opinion that was innocuous enough to have not elicited the type of reaction coming from unexpected quarters. I can’t for the life of me, put a finger on the genesis of this latest acrimonious nonsense. OU’s presentation gave me another perspective to what Mr. Soludo stated and I acknowledged this in a most humble way, which by the way, is what a debate is about. Yet here it seems one is damned for retracting an earlier position and other times, the failure to accept a contrary view is equally seen with disdain so, what’s one to do, get it right always? Impossible. Let us hence be realistic and quit the late entertainment.
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Who are you fighting with, unless I am missing something, Brother who have you up in arm?. Have not see anybody on these thread attack anybody yet. What is going on, am I missing something?.
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Mazi, ndewo, it is not hard to figure and you know that my brother. There is no doubt how much respect I've for my fellow freedom fighters but when so often I'm made to look stupid, I’ll react. How's made any comment regarding Soludo aside from me to be tagged a "fan." Who does not think "deep" enough why all these side comments? If you go through this thread, you can see that I’m the only one that posted commentary by Solodu who will soon be tagged an efulefu. Must we ridicule every one that does not follow a certain part? Is it not obvious that to some extent, this young man at the Central Bank has made Igbo renaissance in nigeria something worth respecting by our detractors? OU's take on Soludo was very much taken by me and that should have killed the topic instead it became something else. When I'm not being attacked unnecessarily by waypoint1, I'm being hit by someone who should know how much I want away from his nigeria. Good thing I made my point very loudly.
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You have nothing to apologise to anybody for. Stick to you guns. Soludo has made the Ibo race proud by sanitizing the mirriad of IBBs bureau de change which were called banks.
Ignore the extremists although you are one of them.
Chimpboy: Why can't you take your own position instead of ko-towing Ohafia and throwing cheap insult at others.
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quote: Ignore the extremists although you are one of them. - Nwa Asaba
LOL, em, thanks. I guess.
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That nwa aro transmuted to markus weber to literally be on my ass today is as a result of the stance I took after a superior presentation swayed my earlier soft position, which endeared me to see his indictment as just still some people do not apply breaks to their thoughts before hitting the send button to realize that I’ve always been open and receptive to better ideas regardless of where it is coming. Only a fool will not assent to a superior presentation which does not make that person dumb. You only become stupid when you continue to defend chaff as we have seen too many here starting with senile idiots like weber. Soludo could have been vicariously talking to obasanjo as wont the Igbo of the yore. Thought I let some folks know.
BTW: I meant to say "Who’s made any comment regarding... not How's... in my earlier post.
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Holy smokes, so all this while I was the target of my brother MeBiafra’s anger? Thanks for spelling it out to me Madam Nwa Asaba, that only goes to prove that old saying that “out of the mouth of the lunatic comes forth the truth”. For a moment there I thought he was unto brother Biafra over a previous disagreement. Well I was actually unto a trend that seems to be catching on among some Igbo commentators not necessarily on BNW and really had no specific person in mind. For your information Soludo and Okonjo Iweala are now the toast of the Yoruba erstwhile third term hypocrites, sometimes they throw in Akunyili (whom some will rather re baptize with the Yoruba name “Akinyuli”) into their sycophancy. The thinking here is praising such folks will rub off on OBJ and somehow ameliorate the far reaching mediocrity he has inflicted on the hapless BiafraNigeria masses. These folks support in a hypocritical fashion an Igbo they believe has no chance of becoming the president knowing fully well the futility of that line of thought but if only to spite the likes of Atiku and those who robbed baba of life presidency.
What OU has done here was to forestall those who continually wait for Aremu to pick their leaders from jumping into a premature jubilation over the arrival of a new Igbo messiah. I did not set out to attack the post but the effect it may have on the naïve and those uninformed as to the sly nature of the Lagos/Ibadan press. Soludo a smart decent man he may be, I believe was being disingenuous when he laid blame on those who have tried their best but only to be failed by the incompetent Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba ruling cabal. I encourage him to study the profile of a few Onitsha business men like Chief Ilodibe,Bolingo or Mammah and get a better understanding of the business prowess of the average Onitsha business man.
Any town the size of Onitsha in any other part of BiafraNigeria would have the advantage of decent infrastructure including airport, seaport and good communication facilities yet we see nothing being done by Soludo’s boss to address this situation, rather the likes of Soludo gladly ride the third term train to perpetuate status quo. How does a man set up an industry in a town with no electricity or public transportation infrastructure? Unless you intend to manufacture clay pots and local Maggi (ogiri), I do not see how a sensible business man can venture into anything beyond the time tested business of importation and warehousing. Soludo has acquired a lot of academic knowledge but he should now seek the everyday business man’s knowledge of the economy to help him appreciate better why Onitsha is the way it is, you do not learn that in Harvard and Oxford. It is almost like Marie Antoinette’s let them eat cake!!!
To my brother MeBiafran, would you feel so aggrieved if the character I attacked was Orji Kalu? Only two weeks ago we were faced with the prospect of a life dictatorship by a man who has helped keep Onitsha the way it is and people like Orji (whom I am not a great admirer of) fought him while the smart Soludo worked hard at keeping quiet. You cannot eat your cake and have it, those who cast their lot with Obasanjo whether by omission or commission have no moral right to preach to us. They are so many intelligent people in Igbo land but we must always look them in the face and tell them the home truth. I will not shed I drop of tear if the next dictator sent Soludo back to the classroom.
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Ok Brothers Now that we have straighten out all this inuendos, can we now get back to important issues.
I do agree with Chiboy on one thing though, any Igbo who supported Obasanjo on third term, whether by omission or commission. Have lost the moral ground to talk about Igbo Presidency. I was laughing so hard last week when Ohanaefu made the shameful Uturn to now be asking for Igbo presidency. No red blood Igbo person will take Ohanaefu serious.
quote:…any Igbo who supported Obasanjo on third term, whether by omission or commission. Have lost the moral ground to talk about Igbo Presidency.
I don’t see me disagreeing.
On the side, much as weber or whatever he wishes to be called is an irritating ant, I bear no hate towards him. It is rather unfortunate that a Yoroba gentleman (addy), add Hon Uka to that, were able to decode me long, long time ago yet some of my brothers still treat me as if I swallowed the money meant for Igbo reconstruction; as if I am responsible for the hardship that we all are enduring in that awusa corrupted land. Mazi Biafra, all they say is alright that ends well, Mazi chiboy will continue to be admired and he knows that. Those of us on the same side of the fence do not have to agree all the time, I don’t know how many times I have to repeat this, what however we should pay care to is our method of disagreeing. Oh well, life.
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I am really amazed that you have been harboring any grudges all this while when an avenue for communication exists through which you could have resolved any ambiguities. I thought I was clear enough when I said Soludo’s “new fans” I meant the hypocrites who praise him only because he works for Obasanjo, I would have clearly told you so if anything I wrote was meant for you. When you cautioned Peter Obi on fighting Aremu I clearly questioned if you felt he should become friends with the man to which you clarified yourself.There were no ambiguites there.
I am not interested in forcing my views down anybody’s throat like the mad woman Nwa Asaba insinuated but I should be able to challenge obvious positions that I feel run counter to the overall interest. My position on the likes of Soludo I believe is reasonable, one has to earn his right to criticism. Can we now make Kema Chikwe Igbo leader on account of her loyal service to Obasanjo even when no effort was made by her to call the emperors attention to the obvious neglect in her backyard for fear of being sacked. How was Soludo going to run the central bank efficiently when Obasanjo had turned it into his piggy bank for financing third term? Could he have given the emperor the same advice he was dishing out to his people in Onitsha, afterall is Nigeria as a whole not one big dead entity? I can’t stand the head negger in charge mentality anymore it’s got to stop. All I am saying is let’s move to the era of accountability, otherwise tomorrow Irukwu will lecture us on why O