Is Peter Obi performing in Anambra?

[Big-K]

I am offering to moderate the debate on the performance of Peter Obi in Anambra State. This is a fallout of ongoing discussions around recent articles by Odenigbo Chidi Anyaeche

The Specific Articles are:
The Anambra State Budget Saga
Anambra State: Facts behind the Rhetorics
My recent visit to Anambra State

Arguing that Peter Obi is underperforming is Chidi Anyaeche himself. Arguing for Peter Obi is Anambra Movement. Anyone is free to align with either party.

The only rule is that Every assertion must be fact-based and verifiable. No personal insults

[WallaceBobo]

Ok guys,
Don't keep us waiting o.... this better be for real.

[Chidi Anyaeche]

Originally Posted by Big-K

I am offering to moderate the debate on the performance of Peter Obi in Anambra State. This is a fallout of ongoing discussions around recent articles by Odenigbo Chidi Anyaeche

The Specific Articles are:
The Anambra State Budget Saga
Anambra State: Facts behind the Rhetorics
My recent visit to Anambra State

Arguing that Peter Obi is underperforming is Chidi Anyaeche himself. Arguing for Peter Obi is Anambra Movement. Anyone is free to align with either party.

The only rule is that Every assertion must be fact-based and verifiable. No personal insults

My articles as highlighted by Big-K speak for themselves, let Anambra Movement counteract them and I will follow it from there. They invited me for a debate about the content of the said articles, here I am.

[ALORAINIDDEVIL]

Originally Posted by Big-K

I am offering to moderate the debate on the performance of Peter Obi in Anambra State. This is a fallout of ongoing discussions around recent articles by Odenigbo Chidi Anyaeche

The Specific Articles are:
The Anambra State Budget Saga
Anambra State: Facts behind the Rhetorics
My recent visit to Anambra State

Arguing that Peter Obi is underperforming is Chidi Anyaeche himself. Arguing for Peter Obi is Anambra Movement. Anyone is free to align with either party.

The only rule is that Every assertion must be fact-based and verifiable. No personal insults

I am aligning with Anambra movement in this debate. I am getting my facts together since Big K has made it clear it should be based on facts. However BIG K we will not take facts from UKPAKA REPORTS.. better make it clear now O!!!

[aringaranso]

Chidi Anyaeche remains among those who are self-blinded to see Peter Obi's progress.

He hates Obi with a passion and has even called him an Orange juice Governor.

Obi might not have fullfiled all his elegant campaign promises,but there is no denying, that he has recorded some success.

My Aunties in Onitsha always tell me that he is doing well whenever I call them.

In appraising Obi's tenure one must put into consideration the numerous forces he has had to face.It's on record that Andy Uba has made Anambra state ungovernable and presently frustrating Obi through the States Assembly.In such turbulent situation,good governance is often halted.

Further more,I would like Anyaeche to judge Obi with his contemporaries elsewhere and stop using an unrealistic benchmark in judging the Anambra Governor.

[Big-K]

Originally Posted by aringaranso

Chidi Anyaeche remains among those who are self-blinded to see Peter Obi's progress.

He hates Obi with a passion and has even called him an Orange juice Governor.

Obi might not have fullfiled all his elegant campaign promises,but there is no denying, that he has recorded some success.

My Aunties in Onitsha always tell me that he is doing well whenever I call them.

In appraising Obi's tenure one must put into consideration the numerous forces he has had to face.It's on record that Andy Uba has made Anambra state ungovernable and presently frustrating Obi through the States Assembly.In such turbulent situation,good governance is often halted.

Further more,I would like Anyaeche to judge Obi with his contemporaries elsewhere and stop using an unrealistic benchmark in judging the Anambra Governor.

Alora
I would leave the reader and debaters to judge the veracity of each others cited sources.

Aringaraso,
The Crucible is for pointed fact-based debate. Please feel free to make this post on a different thread in a different section. As soon as THE debate starts, your post will be moved to a parallel thread.

We await Anambra Movement

[ALORAINIDDEVIL]

Originally Posted by Chidi Anyaeche

My articles as highlighted by Big-K speak for themselves, let Anambra Movement counteract them and I will follow it from there. They invited me for a debate about the content of the said articles, here I am.

Chidi,

Let us start first in your first write-up “My recent Visit to Anambra State” In as much as I am not a supporter of Mr. Obi, let us not throw away the baby and the bath tub. In that write up, you criticized Mr. Obi for building the Stock exchange house in Onitsha.

In your words in paragraph 4 of that article“this is madness, this is corruption beyond the realms, this is an impeachable offence”.

Chidi, if those people you labeled as illiterate traders in Onitsha and other parts of Anambra State start investing in stocks and reaping the gains what is wrong with that? You should know the enormous benefit and gains people make from trading in stocks and it is in the general interest of the Igbo man to have a stock exchange house in an Igbo State. Let me give you an example here, I bought 10,000units of Zenith bank shares at #16 per unit and within a year I was selling those stocks at #58 per unit. If these Anambra people that put all their money into importation of Goods at a particular time are enlightened about the benefits of the capital market, most of them won’t be going bankrupt due to customs activities at the wharf.

We all agree that the Yoruba’s control the economy of this country because they stated investing early in stocks. Since the 70’s they have total control of the capital market. Almost all the blue chip companies are controlled by Yoruba’s. Most of their kids after graduating from the University are given employment by these companies where their dad, uncles and relations have substantial stake. This can not be said of the Igbo’s. My landlord in Lagos does not work, he sits at home receiving his dividend warrants of companies he invested in years back. An Anambra man having knowledge about buying and trading stocks is one of the best things to happen to the Igbo man and Mr. Obi should be applauded instead of castigated.

Let me also give you another instance, there was a time I wanted to trade off some Stocks that was appreciating rapidly on a daily basis, I must get my share certificates to Lagos for confirmation and trading but I was in Umuahia. Before I could finish preparations and got to Lagos after about a week in the village, the stock has depreciated and I could not trade. If there was an Onitsha Stock exchange house, that would not have happened. I would have hit it big then. Same for other investors who live far away from Lagos.

I can go on and on and tell you why Mr. Obi’s initiative in building the Stock exchange house is commendable instead of calling for his impeachment but I believe you know all this yourself.

[ALORAINIDDEVIL]

Originally Posted by Chidi Anyaeche

My articles as highlighted by Big-K speak for themselves, let Anambra Movement counteract them and I will follow it from there. They invited me for a debate about the content of the said articles, here I am.

You also criticized the governor for embarking on a stadium project and from your point of view; it is one the least priorities of Ndi Anambra.

In your words “he is busy constructing a multi-billion naira stadium complex to make us fit, to quench our thirst after rigorous work-out, to prolong our lives from lack of Typhoid fever. What a governor? What a priority?”

Let me ask you Odenigbo, what is the role of Sports in World development today? Every responsible government is developing Sporting facilities but you call it an impeachable offence that Peter Obi embarked on a stadium project. In Nigeria Today, Anambara State cannot boast of one premier league club. Since Enugu state inherited our darling Flying Antelopes (Rangers) in 1991, the Anambra people cannot boast of one football club. The misadventures of Gabros and Udoji united have all come and gone and Anambra no longer has a place in Nigeria football family. If Nigeria is to host a world tournament today, will Anambra have a stake when they don’t have a stadium? In the last tournament (Nigeria 99) some states benefited both financially and economically because their stadium was used as venues for the tournament. If the Anambra state Stadium is completed, Anambra will also be benefiting in occasions like this.

Most of the football clubs in Nigeria today (except Enyimba) sign players on Quota basis. Which football club will take care of young Anambrarians that are aspiring to make it big in football? With this Stadium in place, a new Anambra FC will be born and the club will take care of the interest of Anambra indigenes.

If I am not mistaken, Nigeria’s greatest export to Europe currently is JOHN OBI MIKEL and he happens to come from Anambra State. You quite agree with me that practice makes perfect therefore if this our guy (Mikel) grew up in Anambra, which stadium will he be using to practice and improve his football talent? Which club would have signed him as an amateur to start playing football? If there was no Rwang Pam stadium in Jos and Plateau United FC, Mikel would not be where he is today. Many Anambra boys that would have been sports ambassadors today are doing “IBGA OSO AFIA” in main market because there was no facility for them to train and pursue their talent and it is very bad.

Sports is big business in the world today and it generates excess revenue therefore let us encourage and support ADAOBI for the project he embarked upon.

waiting for your response!

[Chidi Anyaeche]

Originally Posted by Big-K

Alora
I would leave the reader and debaters to judge the veracity of each others cited sources.

Aringaraso,
The Crucible is for pointed fact-based debate. Please feel free to make this post on a different thread in a different section. As soon as THE debate starts, your post will be moved to a parallel thread.

We await Anambra Movement

Big-K

If I do not hear from Anambra Movement sooner, I have to call this debate quits and move on. My time is precious, I do not know about that of Anambra Movement. It is getting to 24 hrs UK time since I accepted their challenge but to no avail.


Odenigbo

[ALORAINIDDEVIL]

Originally Posted by Chidi Anyaeche

Big-K

If I do not hear from Anambra Movement sooner, I have to call this debate quits and move on. My time is precious, I do not know about that of Anambra Movement. It is getting to 24 hrs UK time since I accepted their challenge but to no avail.


Odenigbo

While waiting for Anambra Movement to come, why don’t we debate on the Stock Exchange and stadium project of Mr. Obi that you Labeled Impeachable offences? I am not from Anambra neither do I reside there to know about the state of the infrastructures so I cannot argue about those ones. However I know about the capital market and Sports so since you were the person that told us Mr. Obi embarked on those projects, let us sort that out now. This is 1:00hrs here in UK and I am not sleeping yet till 4:00hrs.

Lest I forget, I went to Awka on 15th of January before I came back from Nigeria and I passed through one road (I think Zik Avenue road). The road was been widened and drainages were been constructed. I am quite sure I saw shops and stalls that where pulled down to make way for the drainage. Heavy trucks were all around there and work was going on. The contractors there were from RCC and when I inquired from people around, it was one of the good works of the Peter Obi Administration in Awka. Their only complaint was that the pace of work is not as fast as when Ngige was there.

N;B, I don’t know Awka very well so I might mistake the Road I am talking about as Zik Avenue but I am sure Lion bank and diamond bank are located on that road.

[Chidi Anyaeche]

Dear Villager

I have another article on the way that will respond to your questions (and others) with greater depth. Nevertheless, I will give you a snap-shot response: -

Stock Exchange in Nigeria is 100%, a private sector operation but regulated by the government via the SEC. The Nigerian Stock Exchange is located in Lagos and by law cannot be removed from Lagos. Sannia Abacha tried to split the operation into two places, Lagos and Abuja but failed. What was built at Onitsha with tax-payers money amounting to circa one billion naira is merely a dealing room, irrespective of the name. But most importantly why should government use tax payers money to finance a 100% private sector operation. This is akin to Abia state government building a branch of Zenith bank in Umuahia and handing it over lock, stock and barrel to Zenith back. Lastly, please remember that price of shares can go up as well as down. Share dealing can wipe away your whole capital. For the value of Zenith bank shares to rise from #16 to #58 under one year, a whopping 360% increase, I will be scared. What sound business makes 360% profit in a year? This is the Nigerian factor at play here. What happened with the stock exchange building is contract award to cronies with the mandatory 20% kick back. The taps are dry in Anambra state, which one is a priority? providing water to the citizenry or building a non-viable stock exchange building.

On the stadium project, all I have to say is that a stadium does not make a John Mikel and neither does one John Mikel or even a thousand John Mikels arrest youth unemployment. What is needed is solid invesment in education, skills and training to equip the youths for tomorrow. This is not case in present day Anambra state.

With the Awka road contract, you have landed in the territory of the Anambra legislators regarding the 2008 budget. One of their grudges is the selective funds release by Peter Obi to favoured projects. The Awka RCC road was awarded by Ngige just before he left office and that is why it is poorly funded despite being budgeted for. What happened to the money? The stock exchange building was awarded by Peter Obi after the Awka RCC road but it was completed in record time, so is the stadium projects. You know why.

The main contracting company for the stadium projects is a firm called Paul-B whose owner is a long term business partner of Peter Obi, this was one of the grounds for his earlier impeachment. May I also remind you that all the grounds of that his impeachment still remains valid. His impeachment was thrown out by the courts on technicality: that the impeachment notice was not served properly.


Big-K

I thank you once more for this debate opportunity with Anambra Movement but as you can see, the Movement as at date at time has refused to come into the boxing ring. As the umpire please award the fight to me for I now have to move on to greater challenges. Thank you and good bye to the debate.

Remain blessed

Odenigbo

[nero africanus]

Originally Posted by Chidi Anyaeche

Dear Villager

I have another article on the way that will respond to your questions (and others) with greater depth. Nevertheless, I will give you a snap-shot response: -

Stock Exchange in Nigeria is 100%, a private sector operation but regulated by the government via the SEC. The Nigerian Stock Exchange is located in Lagos and by law cannot be removed from Lagos. Sannia Abacha tried to split the operation into two places, Lagos and Abuja but failed. What was built at Onitsha with tax-payers money amounting to circa one billion naira is merely a dealing room, irrespective of the name. But most importantly why should government use tax payers money to finance a 100% private sector operation. This is akin to Abia state government building a branch of Zenith bank in Umuahia and handing it over lock, stock and barrel to Zenith back. Lastly, please remember that price of shares can go up as well as down. Share dealing can wipe away your whole capital. For the value of Zenith bank shares to rise from #16 to #58 under one year, a whopping 360% increase, I will be scared. What sound business makes 360% profit in a year? This is the Nigerian factor at play here. What happened with the stock exchange building is contract award to cronies with the mandatory 20% kick back. The taps are dry in Anambra state, which one is a priority? providing water to the citizenry or building a non-viable stock exchange building

forgive my ignorance , comrade chidi,

but i need a few answers. since the stock exchange is a 100 percent private sector operation , it means it is owned by somebody or a group. who is that group?

i was under the impression that the lagos stock exchange was built by the government for the trading of stocks which are privately owned

i thought that there are certain infrastructure of the money and capital markets that the state has to provide , for instance we all agree that the central bank has to be built and funded by the state . to act as the bankers bank , so also will the stock exchange be built by the state for the stock to be privately traded. of course it is not impossible to have the stock exchange privately owned. but the one in lagos , is it privately owned , if it is indeed privately owned, how come abacha was trying to move it to abuja. i hope you will find time to enlighten me on these

On the stadium project, all I have to say is that a stadium does not make a John Mikel and neither does one John Mikel or even a thousand John Mikels arrest youth unemployment. What is needed is solid invesment in education, skills and training to equip the youths for tomorrow. This is not case in present day Anambra state.

comrade im sure you agree with me that, sometimes our differences only boils down to points of view and disaggreements on priorities . considering the nature of the problem we face now , these are cosmetic. but may i ask dont you consider sports a skill. dont you consider that a station will be a place to hone sports skills of those who shore promise.

in some countries they have sports academies , this is a result of the fact that they recognise that sports is a skill and needs training. so you see we are all saying the same thing.

With the Awka road contract, you have landed in the territory of the Anambra legislators regarding the 2008 budget. One of their grudges is the selective funds release by Peter Obi to favoured projects. The Awka RCC road was awarded by Ngige just before he left office and that is why it is poorly funded despite being budgeted for. What happened to the money? The stock exchange building was awarded by Peter Obi after the Awka RCC road but it was completed in record time, so is the stadium projects. You know why.

The main contracting company for the stadium projects is a firm called Paul-B whose owner is a long term business partner of Peter Obi, this was one of the grounds for his earlier impeachment. May I also remind you that all the grounds of that his impeachment still remains valid. His impeachment was thrown out by the courts on technicality: that the impeachment notice was not served properly.

what was the grounds of the impeachment of peter obi other than that he refused to give the house the bribe they were used to receiving under ngige , if there was any other meaninful ground could you let us know what it was . may i remind you that impeachment is a trial and that the governor has the right to defence and that it has to be proved beyond all reasonable doubt that a crime was commited.what was the criminal offence the house found obi guilty of, may i ask?

so what if the person awarded the contract was a crony of peter obi , that is completely irrelevant and immaterial unless you are saying that once a contractors happens to know anybody in power he is automatically disqualified from bidding for the contract i n question .

what i expected you to dwell on was the contract awarding process which will go on to prove that there were irregularities and that the process was not transparent.

in one of the western states the governor awards contracts directly to his cronies , and asks his electorate to hold him responsible if the contractors dont deliver .

why, we may ask, is this governor subverting the due process etc , well it appeared that he had tried to use due process but found out the contractors never delivered , when he had about 4 of them locked up ,he found a web of corruption going back more than 20 years. what was happening basically was that the civil servants , commisioners , perm secs,supervising engineers , environmental accessors etc all collected kick backs and bribes to approve of the contract and the contractor , in the end the contractors could not deliver. most of the money had been given as bribes to civil servants . the governor devised a drastic solution , he awarded contracts directly to contractors , without any participation of the state civil service.


we live in desperate times

Big-K

I thank you once more for this debate opportunity with Anambra Movement but as you can see, the Movement as at date at time has refused to come into the boxing ring. As the umpire please award the fight to me for I now have to move on to greater challenges. Thank you and good bye to the debate.

Remain blessed

Odenigbo

[denker]

..later legends state that Achilles was invulnerable on all of his body except for his heel... these legends state that Achilles was killed in battle by an arrow to the heel, and so an Achilles' heel has come to mean a person's only weakness.
..so, anambra movement, don't you see allover his(odenigbo) weak points..i hate to tell you dis..i'm totally disappointed...

[ALORAINIDDEVIL]

Originally Posted by Chidi Anyaeche

Big-K

I thank you once more for this debate opportunity with Anambra Movement but as you can see, the Movement as at date at time has refused to come into the boxing ring. As the umpire please award the fight to me for I now have to move on to greater challenges. Thank you and good bye to the debate.

Remain blessed

Odenigbo

Odenigbo,
Big Kay cannot award you the fight just because Anambra Movement failed to turn up. Let me remind you that Anambra Movement challanged you but instead of accepting only him, you extended invitations to his supporters. So therefore the fight is not just between you and Anambra Movement but with his supporters as well.

Your statements here states exactly that. “They invited me for a debate about the content of the said articles, here I am” and “It is getting to 24 hrs UK time since I accepted their challenge but to no avail”. Nero Africanus is around already, counter his points...

[ALORAINIDDEVIL]

Originally Posted by Chidi Anyaeche

Dear Villager

I have another article on the way that will respond to your questions (and others) with greater depth. Nevertheless, I will give you a snap-shot response: -

OK. Please send me a private message once you send the article to NVS.

Stock Exchange in Nigeria is 100%, a private sector operation but regulated by the government via the SEC. The Nigerian Stock Exchange is located in Lagos and by law cannot be removed from Lagos. Sannia Abacha tried to split the operation into two places, Lagos and Abuja but failed. What was built at Onitsha with tax-payers money amounting to circa one billion naira is merely a dealing room, irrespective of the name.

Dealing room or an exchange house, will stock business be conducted there? will its activities help enlighten Anambra people on the advantages of investing in Stock?

But most importantly why should government use tax payers money to finance a 100% private sector operation.

Stock Exchange business is not 100% private sector operation. The Lagos stock exchange house is owned by the Govt and the activities regulated by government therefore it is not entirely 100% private arrangemnt.

This is akin to Abia state government building a branch of Zenith bank in Umuahia and handing it over lock, stock and barrel to Zenith back.

I disagree with you, the two instances are not the same. Was the lagos stock exchange house built by induviduals or by FG?

Lastly, please remember that price of shares can go up as well as down. Share dealing can wipe away your whole capital. For the value of Zenith bank shares to rise from #16 to #58 under one year, a whopping 360% increase, I will be scared. What sound business makes 360% profit in a year? This is the Nigerian factor at play here.

yeah but it happend and some people smiled to the banks. If Stock broking activity was on in Onitsha, the people would be enlightened and they will also benefit from that.

What happened with the stock exchange building is contract award to cronies with the mandatory 20% kick back.

Some State governors did not even award contarcts talk more of executing. They just dip hands in the State treasury and EMBEZZLE the money. Even FG is not different in this class, they Award, release money, get kickbacks yet contracts are not executed. If this Peter Obi government awarded, executed and got just kickbacks (not proved yet) from the contractors and the contract was duly completed then I think it should be Bravo to them!

The taps are dry in Anambra state, which one is a priority? providing water to the citizenry or building a non-viable stock exchange building.

I cannot argue with you here because I dont stay in Anambra, i promise when I visit Nigeria next month, I will visit Anambra state and see things for myself.

On the stadium project, all I have to say is that a stadium does not make a John Mikel and neither does one John Mikel or even a thousand John Mikels arrest youth unemployment.

But a Staduim can reduce the level of youth unemployment in a State because some youths who have talents in sports will be busy traininng at the stadium. Moreover, With a stadium in Anambra, Anambra will definitely have a football club that will be using that Stadium. If the Football club signs 40 players and 30 are from Anambra, 30 youths have been employed. Same goes for other sports.

What is needed is solid invesment in education, skills and training to equip the youths for tomorrow. This is not case in present day Anambra state.

I cannot also argue with you here because I dont stay in Anambra, However we get news of Mr obi donating science and laboratory equipments to secondary schools is that not a solid investment in Education?

With the Awka road contract, you have landed in the territory of the Anambra legislators regarding the 2008 budget. One of their grudges is the selective funds release by Peter Obi to favoured projects. The Awka RCC road was awarded by Ngige just before he left office and that is why it is poorly funded despite being budgeted for. What happened to the money? The stock exchange building was awarded by Peter Obi after the Awka RCC road but it was completed in record time, so is the stadium projects. You know why.

I dont think this should be an impeachable offence. A govt reserves the right to execute whatever projects she feels are the first in its scale of preference. from what you are saying, Obi did not stop the project, they were moving but at snail speed whereas the ones he awarded personally were executed faster. You are trying to argue here that the reason for this is because his cronies executed his own projects and he got kickbacks. Suppose we argue it this other way. MR OBI WANTS TO COMPLETE THE PROJECTS HE STARTED SO HE CAN USE IT FOR HIS CAMPAIGN IN 2011. SINCE PEOPLE ARE AWARE THAT NGIGE IS THE ARCHITECT OF THE ZIK AVENUE ROAD, OBI FELT HE SHOULD COMPLETE THE PROJECTS HE STARTED FIRST (STADIUM AND STOCK EXCHANGE HOUSE) BEFORE COMPLETING THE ONES STARTED BY NGIGE BECAUSE IF HE FOCUSES ON NGIGES OWN, BY 2011 HIS ANTAGONOSITS WILL SAY HE DID NOTHING! WHY DONT YOU SEE IT THIS WAY OTHER THAN BECAUSE HE GOT KICK BACKS?

The main contracting company for the stadium projects is a firm called Paul-B whose owner is a long term business partner of Peter Obi, this was one of the grounds for his earlier impeachment.

The point is not who executed the contracts? the point is WHERE THE CONTRACTS DULY EXECUTED? Chimaroke used Marlum engineering solely owned by him with his sister as front for all state projects from 2000-2008 and he perfomed terribly bad. Here Obi is using a friend and the work was completed. come on!!

May I also remind you that all the grounds of that his impeachment still remains valid. His impeachment was thrown out by the courts on technicality: that the impeachment notice was not served properly.

This is democracy, The house reserves every right to begin the impeachment processes again so long as they will give Mr Obi chance to counter the allegations.


Odenigbo

COUNTERING YOUR POSITIONS ONE BY ONE ABOVE! SEE THE HIGHLIGHTED PARTS. CHEERS

[Anambra Movement]

CHIDI,Can I begin by saying that ANAMBRA STATE WATER CORPORATION is the most corrupt and politicised institution in anambra state. THE REASON WHY THE TAPS ARE NOT YET RUNNING ARE:
(1) HIS EXCELLENCY BOUGHT THE EQUIPMENTS TO REVAMP THE CORPORATION FROM THE TOTAL DISASTER MBADINUJU LEFT IT AS EARLY AS NOVEMBER LAST YEAR. THE AGREEMENT WITH THE CONTRACTORS WAS THAT TAPS WILL START RUNNING BY EARLY JANUARY THIS YEAR BUT ENERMIES OF PROGRESS WENT AND STOLE ALL THE NEW EQUIPMENTS.

(2)THE SO CALLED WORKERS WANT TO BE PAID THEIR SALARIES AS FAR BACK AS MBADINUJUS ERA FOR JOBS THEY DIDN'T DO. DO YOU KNOW THAT ANAMBRA STATE WATER CORPORATION HAS OVER 15,000 WORKERS. WHERE WILL HE GET THE MONEY TO PAY THEM AND FROM WHEN TO WHEN?
YOU CAN VERIFY THAT FROM ANAMBRA STATE MINISTRY OF WORKS.

ON PETER OBI GIVING CONTRACT TO HIS CRONY

NWANNEM (MY BROTHER), HAVE YOU LOOKED UP THE CONTRACTS THIS GUY HAS EXECUTED BEFORE? THIS GUY IS ONE OF THE BEST INDIGENOUS CONTRACTORS THAT EXECUTE CONTRACTS TO A VERY HIGH STANDARD. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY CONTRACTS HE DID FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? OR DO YOU PREFER FOREIGNER DOING THE JOB OR INCOMPETENT LOCAL CONTRACTORS.

ABEG, YOU GUYS COMMON. THE GUY GAVE THE CONTRACT TO A NIGERIAN COMPANY WITH GOOD REPUTATION THAT WILL DELIVER 100% OF THE PROJECT AS STANDARD.

LETS NOT POLITICISE EVERYTHING, THE TRUTH SHOULD BE TOLD. GOD IS WATCHING US ALL.

ON ROAD CONSTRUCTION
HIS EXCELLENCY HAS CONSTRUCTED ALL MAJOR ROADS IN ONITSHA, NNEWI AND AWKA. THE COMMERCIAL HUBS OF THE STATE. EXAMPLE INCLUDES: UGWUNABANKPA ROAD TO IWEKA (0VER 20 KM), AWKA ROAD TO MAIN MARKET ONITSHA, OGUTA ROAD, E.T.C.90% OF THE MAJOR ROADS IN ONITSHA HAS BEEN RECONSTRUCTED.

ON RURAL ROADS, NKWERRE - AWKUZU ROAD, WHERE CAN I START? ITS DIFFICULT STATING ALL THE ROADS BECAUSE 90% OF THE ROADS IN ANAMBRA STATE ARE TARRED.

NO COMMUNITY HAS BEEN LEFT OUT OF THIS DEVELOPEMENT. HE IS THE FIRST PERSON TO CONSTRUCT THE MBAKWU BRIDGE THAT HASN'T BEEN TOUCHED IN OVER 40 YEARS

THE DISHONOURABLE 19 FOOLS WANT TO DELAY THE COMPLETION OF OTHER ROAD PROJECTS ESPECIALLY IN OYI AND AYAMELUM LOCAL GOVERNMENT BEFORE THE RAINY SEASON STARTS.

ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING, MY HEART BLEEDS WHEN OUR PEOPLE ARE ENEMIES OF PROGRESS. THE BUILDING IS A GOVERNMENT SHOPPING PLAZA. PLEASE THE STOCK EXCHANGE IS JUST ONE BUILDING. THE MAN HAS A VISION FOR THE STATE SHOULD TO HAVE MANY SOURCES OF INCOME INSTEAD OF DEPENDING ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR OVER TAXING OUR PEOPLE. THIS BUILDINGS ARE TO BE RENTED TO BANKS, FOREIGN AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND OTHER HIGHLY PLACED BUSINESSES . PLEASE ENOUGH OF THIS NONSENSE, GO AND SEE THE PLACE.

GOVERNMENT SECRETARIATES
MR PETER OBI HAS BUILT LOCAL GOVERNMENT SECRETATRIATE IN BOTH ONITSHA NORTH AND SOUTH, DUNUKOFIA, NJIKOKA WITH PLANS FOR OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENT WITHOUT ONE. A MOVE THAT WILL ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY AND EASY MONITORING OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

ON EDUCATION
GONE ARE THE DAYS WHEN SCIENCE STUDENTS PERFORM PRACTICALS IN THEORY. ALL THE LABS (PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY) IN ANAMBRA STATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS ARE FULLY FURNISHED WITH NEW IT LABS AS WELL.

MOST SCHOOLS I WENT TO (CKC, QRC,) HAD BOREHOLE FOR CONSTANT WATER SUPPLY. THE STATE IS WORKING ON PROVIDING BOREHOLES IN ALL SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA WITH OVER 50% WORK DONE.

ON ANAMBRA STATE UNIVERSITY, DO YOU KNOW....GO AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.

ON HEALTH
CAN YOU GUYS BELIEVE THAT ANAMBRA STATE HAS LONDON STYLE AMBULANCE IN ALL THEIR GENERAL HOSPITALS. AMBULANCE IN GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL? YES, CLEAN FUNCTIONING AMBULANCE, CLEAN WARDS, FULLY EQUIPPED GENERAL HOSPITALS, CANCER SCREENING LABORATORY IN ANAMBRA STATE.

WAIT A MOMENT, DO YOU KNOW THAT ANAMBRA STATE HAS GOT SOME AMBULANCES READY IN CASE OF MOTOR ACCIDENTS, TO HELP VICTIMS GET IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO TREATMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY LIVES THAT HAS BEEN SAVED BY THIS PROGRAMME. THIS IS WHY I LIKE MY GOVERNOR, THE GUY IS ONE STEP AHEAD, OPERATING ON A HIGHER LEVEL.

CHIDI, DO YOU KNOW THAT ALL THE NURSING SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE HAS BEEN ACCREDITED.SO GONE ARE THE DAYS OF PRODUCING INCOMPETENT NURSES.

ON SECURITY

FOR THE 2 WEEKS I WAS IN NIGERIA, I DIDN'T HEAR A SINGLE GUNSHOT. AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS CONFIRMED ANAMBRA STATE AS THE MOST PEACEFUL STATE IN NIGERIA. THE POLICE, VIGILANT SERVICE AND THE JOINT PATROL TEAM ARE ALL EQUIPPED WITH BRAND NEW FORD TRUCKS. I WAS DRIVING MY NEW MERCEDES C CLASS AFTER 10PM WITH NO FEAR.

ON TRANSPORT
CHIDI, I CHALLENGE YOU TO BOARD TRACAS FROM LAGOS TO THE EAST AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK. I COUDN'T RESIST THE TEMPTATION DESPITE THE FACT I BOUGHT A FLIGHT TICKET IN ADVANCE. MY GOVERNOR, YOU LL LIVE LONG.

ON PERSIONERS AND CIVIL SERVANTS
MBADINUJU SHAME ON YOU, ARE YOU NOT ASHAMED OF YOURSELF WITH THE DEVELOPEMENT YOU NOW ENJOY?

ANAMBRA STATE CIVIL SERVANT BOTH OLD AND PRESENT DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT IN THE BANK FOR THEIR SALARIES. THEY ARE TREATED LIKE VIP IN THE BANKS ON THEIR PAY DAY. FIRST IN HISTORY

ON POLICE
DO YOU KNOW THAT MY GOVERNOR WENT INTO A FINANCE SCHEME TO AID POLICEMEN AND WOMEN WITH TRANSPORT. THE STATE HELP STAFF PURCHASE MOTORCYCLE WHICH THEY WILL GRADUALLY PAY BACK TO ENSURE THEY ARE PUNCTUAL. BECAUSE IF POLICE IS PUNCTUAL, HIS PRODUCTIVITY WILL INCREASE AND CRIME WILL BE REDUCED.

DO YOU KNOW THAT ANAMBRA POLICE NOW HAVE BRAND NEW FORD TRUCKS. THERE IS NO MORE ROOM FOR NIGERIAN POLICE EXCUSE. THIS GUY HAS GOT VISION AND HE IS AN INSPIRATION.


OUR PROBLEM IN ANAMBRA STATE IS THAT THERE ARE MANY ENERMIES OF PROGRESS. AS UKPAKAREPORT EASILY BROADCAST HIS ONE SIDED WORDS OF HATRED.

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT A SANE INDIVIDUAL WILL GO AND DUMP REFUSE IN A NEWLY CONSTRUCTED ROAD JUST TO TARNISH THE IMAGE OF THE GOVERNMENT. BUT AS GOD WILL HAVE IT, MY GOVERNOR CLEARS IT AS SOON AS WORD REACHES TO HIM.

HOW I WISH YOU GUYS CAN RECEIVE ANAMBRA BROADCASTING SERVICES AND HEAR THIS GUY SPEAK.

THE THING IS THAT DESPITE ANDY UBAS DISTRACTIONS, HE IS FOCUSED.


CHIDI ANYANECHE, THIS IS ENGLAND...GO AND VERIFY.

"AS OF 1987, MAYBE YOU ARE STILL A KID THEN. HIS EXCELLENCY, MY GOVERNOR, MR PETER OBI, THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR OF ANAMBRA STATE, MY ROLEMODEL, WAS LIVING COMFORTABLE IN THE WESTERN WORLD."

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DON'T KNOW THE GUY, MR PETER OBI IS A SELF MADE BILLIONAIRE (VERIFYABLE, UNLIKE THE MAGICIAN MY ANDY UBA

YOU ARE NO HOLDER, GUYS LIKE YOU DESTROY ANAMBRA STATE AND NIGERIA.

FOR THE INSULT ON ANAMBRA TRADERS, MY BROTHERS ARE MORE EDUCATED, 100% RICHER THAN YOU. THE FIRST IS A CIVIL ENGINEER (DEALS ON BUILDING MATERIAL),SECOND MECHANICAL ENGINEER( HAS A PALM PROCESSING PLANT) AND THIRD BUSINESS (IT SPECIALIST). ANYBODY THAT MAKES IT IN NIGERIA LEGITIMATELY IS 100% BETTER THAN YOU AND I ABROAD..

I PLAN TO MOVE BACK TO NIGERIA PERMANENTLY TO CONTINUE MY PROFESSION (A PHARMACIST), THANKS TO MY BROTHERS ACHIEVEMENT IN NIGERIA, PETER OBI AND THE DEVELOPEMENT HE HAS BROUGHT TO ANAMBRA.

I PLAN TO GO INTO PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTION BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT EVERY NIGERIAN HAS A RIGHT TO GOOD AND AFFORDABLE MEDICATION.

PLEASE, YOU NEED TO APOLOGISE TO THE SO CALLED "ILLITERATE", YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU LL CROSS PATH WITH THEM AGAIN IN LIFE.

IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MONEY. WRITE SOMETHING NEGATIVE ABOUT MR ANDY UBA. HE WILL EMPLOY YOU LIKE HE DID IKENNA EZENEKWE BUT DON'T MAKE THE MISTAKE HE MADE. HE HAD SO MUCH BELIEVE IN MR UBA BEING GOVERNOR THAT HE LOST HIS TEACHING JOB (TEACHING JOB, EWEY.THATS WHY,OOH NOW I SEE WHY HE TURNED

CHIDI, I RATHER BE A RICH "ILLITERATE" AS YOU CALLED THEM, OWN 2 MASSIVE DUPLEX (ONE IN ONITSHA AND ONE IN THE VILLAGE), 7 THREE STORY BUILDINGS, TRAVEL TO ANY COUNTRY OF MY CHOICE BECAUSE I HAVE THE CASH, DRIVE TOP OF THE RANGE CARS, HAVE OVER 100 MILLION NAIRA(YES,SOME OF THE SO CALLED ILLITERATES HAVE THAT KIND OF MONEY) AND STAND BY THE TRUTH (BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THAT "THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE" AND THAT "WE SHALL ALL ACCOUNT FOR OUR ACTIONS BOTH IN LIFE AND DEATH. THAN BE GORDON BROWNS SLAVE (ENGLAND PRIME MINISTER)

I REST MY CASE!!!!!!!!!

[Anambra Movement]

Check Out My Post...

SORRY VILLAGERS FOR MY LATE RESPONSE, I WANTED TO VERIFY ALL MY FACTS AGAIN TO MAKE SURE WHAT I SAY IS 100% ACCURATE AND CAN BE BE EASILY VERIFIED.

LONG LIVE MR PETER OBI, HOPE HE GOES FOR PRESIDENCY AFTER HIS SECOND TERM (WHICH HE MUST GO FOR,WHETHER HE LIKE IT OR NOT. WE WILL TAKE HIM TO COURT IF HE REFUSES TO GO FOR SECOND TERM.

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It is great to see Nigerians actually debate the substantive performance of their elected officers. It will be greater if these kinds of questions are asked during elections, and after it- not just in Anambra but across the country. Oh well, not until the people's choice (like Peter Obi) is reflected in the government houses. As long as usurpers govern that country, no questions will be asked and everyone including Ms. Obasanjo-Bello will get away with everything including murder.

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Originally Posted by Anambra Movement

CHIDI,Can I begin by saying that ANAMBRA STATE WATER CORPORATION .

ON HEALTH
CAN YOU GUYS BELIEVE THAT ANAMBRA STATE HAS LONDON STYLE AMBULANCE IN ALL THEIR GENERAL HOSPITALS. AMBULANCE IN GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL? YES, CLEAN FUNCTIONING AMBULANCE, CLEAN WARDS, FULLY EQUIPPED GENERAL HOSPITALS, CANCER SCREENING LABORATORY IN ANAMBRA STATE.

WAIT A MOMENT, DO YOU KNOW THAT ANAMBRA STATE HAS GOT SOME AMBULANCES READY IN CASE OF MOTOR ACCIDENTS, TO HELP VICTIMS GET IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO TREATMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY LIVES THAT HAS BEEN SAVED BY THIS PROGRAMME. THIS IS WHY I LIKE MY GOVERNOR, THE GUY IS ONE STEP AHEAD, OPERATING ON A HIGHER LEVEL.

CHIDI, DO YOU KNOW THAT ALL THE NURSING SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE HAS BEEN ACCREDITED.SO GONE ARE THE DAYS OF PRODUCING INCOMPETENT NURSES.

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All good but I dont want to read that next time he is abroad for medical checkup o!

Most of dem governors always say they have reabilitated so so and so hospitals but yet they cannot use dem darn self.

[Anambra Movement]

Anambra Budget: Appropriation Committee Externally Manipulated, Says Ughamadu
A member of Anambra State House of Assembly, Dr. Ozo Ughammadu, has traced the genesis of the budget crisis in the state to external manipulation.

He said that the same people manipulating the Appropriation Committee were responsible for burning down government property in the state, including Government House in 2004, which the current governor, Peter Obi, had rebuilt.

Ughammadu, who made these comments during "Sunrise," a morning programme on Channels Television said that a politician actually directed the House to slash the budget after series of meetings in Abuja.

Describing the slashing of the budget as criminal, the lawmaker, said that what was even more condemnable was that those that did the slashing took care of their towns. He gave example with the Finance and Appropriation Committee chairman, Mbazulike Amaechi, who allocated 10 boreholes to his town while removing those of other towns.

He also frowned at the cutting of the N1 billion allocated for the development of Awka Capital Territory to N200 million and submitted that all in all, some members of the House in collaboration with the Abuja politician, were bent on just frustrating Obi. "If the House is sincere, why do they have to cut all sub-heads meant for infrastructural development, such as roads, education, health, environment, only to increase theirs from N284 million to N1.3 billion, about 600 per cent increase?" he asked.

He insisted that what the committee did was assuming the garb of a superman by presenting another budget rather than collating the reports of other committees, which was what they were supposed to do.

Answering questions on why the House could not solve the problem amicably, Ughamadu attributed it to the surreptitious move to pass the slashed budget as instructed by the Abuja-based politician without due process. He said the House was not even given the benefit of going through the report of the appropriation committee.

Justifying the N84.2 billion budget profile, he said that even the blind could see the marvelous work the governor of the state was doing, developing all sectors of the state simultaneously.

While granting the House the right to look at the budget, Ben Chuks Nwosu, who spoke as a concerned Anambrarian, said that the House was just playing bad and malicious politics with the budget.

He said that Anambra people wanted the budget to be passed so that Obi would sustain the tempo of work he was admirably doing and counselled the House that its job was not to make budget, but to monitor its implementation through oversight functions, adding that he was not surprised at what was happening in the House since election did not take place in the state and as such the members were not representing the people.



FOR THOSE THAT DIDN'T KNOW, THIS GUY (OZO UGHAMADU) WAS ONE OF THE TWO FORMER MEMBERS, WHO WERE PROMISED AUTOMATIC RETURN TICKETS WHEN THEY IMPEACHED MR PETER OBI THE LAST TIME.

HE HAS SEEN THE LIGHT.....