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I don't think so, unless there's another route to the hospital. I went to the hospital through an offshoot from Orlu-Owerri road, not so good tho'.

Abagworo:


Amaifeke is a different town from Orlu urban and are not even same tribe/clan as Orlu who are of Isu stock. They don't even speak same dialect.

Again you showed this as IMSUTH. Please Centje was there any place like this you saw at the Teaching Hospital?

Abagworo:


Amaifeke is a different town from Orlu urban and are not even same tribe/clan as Orlu who are of Isu stock. They don't even speak same dialect.

Again you showed this as IMSUTH. Please Centje was there any place like this you saw at the Teaching Hospital?

This is the Amaigbo road side of the road to IMSUTH. The Old Orlu-Owerri road side of the IMSUTH road is also like this side in the last four years.

Didn't you hear demonstrating IMSUTH students last two months or so complaining that the road to their hospital is not motorable for years, and that they had complained to government but no solution?

Centje said he went to IMSUTH through an off-shoot road, so he couldn't have seen the two worse entries to the IMSUTH road.

mandax:


This is the Amaigbo road side of the road to IMSUTH. The Old Orlu-Owerri road side of the IMSUTH road is also like this side in the last four years. Didn't you hear demonstrating IMSUTH students last two months or so complaining that the road to their hospital is not motorable for years, and that they had complained to government but no solution?

Centje said he went to IMSUTH through an off-shoot road, so he couldn't have seen the two worse entries to the IMSUTH road.

Nobody will visit Orlu and say Okorocha did nothing or that he paved only 2km of roads. Thats a devilish lie. There is nowhere in Nigeria where 50% of the roads in the State is completely good. Even in FCT you will get a thousand bad roads. My argument has never been that there are zero bad roads but Okorocha turned Orlu from a red semi-urban to an urban area with better layouts, dualised roads with streetlights, better schools and roundabouts. No town of Orlu's level is like that in Igboland.

In Imo State the only people to complain should be Okigwe. I was there too and discovered it has only one poorly dualised road with a big shopping complex and nothing more.

More Pictures of Orlu. @ Centje I think we should show both the good and bad sides of Orlu not just the bad sides

Abagworo:


Nobody will visit Orlu and say Okorocha did nothing or that he paved only 2km of roads. Thats a devilish lie. There is nowhere in Nigeria where 50% of the roads in the State is completely good. Even in FCT you will get a thousand bad roads. My argument has never been that there are zero bad roads but Okorocha turned Orlu from a red semi-urban to an urban area with better layouts, dualised roads with streetlights, better schools and roundabouts. No town of Orlu's level is like that in Igboland.

In Imo State the only people to complain should be Okigwe. I was there too and discovered it has only one poorly dualised road with a big shopping complex and nothing more.

A town of Orlu's level?

If you are truly from Imo state, you ought to know that in 1976 when Imo state was created, there were little or no differences between the levels of urbanization between Owerri, Orlu and Okigwe.

You and your principal seriously believe that a state capital must have all major development infrastructures in a state

Okorocha got more votes in Orlu urban local government than from any other local government area. Considering that, the about 2 kilometres urban roads he dualized in Orlu and placed street lamp poles on some trips only a few persons who have not seen dual carriage roads before in Orlu.
Or name any other infrastructure from Okorocha government in Orlu?


Water supply?. It was Orlu's turn to have the regional water supply project which Ohakim was promising to start. Okorocha knew this but quickly proscribed government supply of pipe borne water when he came in as governor.


All we plead with Okorocha government for now is asphalt the roads his contractors scrapped which are sending dust into people's lungs in Orlu in the last four years.

mandax:


A town of Orlu's level?

If you are truly from Imo state, you ought to know that in 1976 when Imo state was created, there were little or no differences between the levels of urbanization between Owerri, Orlu and Okigwe.

You and your principal seriously believe that a state capital must have all major development infrastructures in a state

Okorocha got more votes in Orlu urban local government than from any other local government area. Considering that, the about 2 kilometres urban roads he dualized in Orlu and placed street lamp poles on some trips only a few persons who have not seen dual carriage roads before in Orlu.
Or name any other infrastructure from Okorocha government in Orlu?


Water supply?. It was Orlu's turn to have the regional water supply project which Ohakim was promising to start. Okorocha knew this but quickly proscribed government supply of pipe borne water when he came in as governor.


All we plead with Okorocha government for now is asphalt the roads his contractors scrapped which are sending dust into people's lungs in Orlu in the last four years.

Owerri was only 4th behind Onitsha, Aba and Enugu in population but 2nd most important after Onitsha in religion. In of istration Port Harcourt was even under Owerri province just like Orlu, Aba, Umuahia, Ohafia and Okigwe. The old Imo State was created out of Owerri province following removal of Ahoada from Owerri. Only Ebonyi part of Imo was from Ogoja province.

Now to Orlu. If the entire stretch of Road done in Orlu area is less than 5km may all my descendants perish but if its more than 2km may all your descendants perish.

I say amen to mine which is 5 km say amen to yours.

The Imo state government should think of creating a city out of Mmahu, Egbema. They already have the trappings such as quality roads and layout. What they're lacking is what quasi towns that are not even up to Orlu and Okigwe level possess and that is some level of commercial activity. Mmahu should be made to compete with nearby Omoku in Rivers State.

centje:
Again Abagworo was wrong about the Orlu stadium. Here's the State of the stadium...

Abagworo is a born-again sycophant.

Abagworo:


Owerri was only 4th behind Onitsha, Aba and Enugu in population but 2nd most important after Onitsha in religion. In of istration Port Harcourt was even under Owerri province just like Orlu, Aba, Umuahia, Ohafia and Okigwe. The old Imo State was created out of Owerri province following removal of Ahoada from Owerri. Only Ebonyi part of Imo was from Ogoja province.

Now to Orlu. If the entire stretch of Road done in Orlu area is less than 5km may all my descendants perish but if its more than 2km may all your descendants perish.

I say amen to mine which is 5 km say amen to yours.

I told you about near-equal urbanization levels between Owerri, Orlu and Okigwe in 1976 when Imo state was created but you talk about the istrative status of Owerri then and beyond. Is there any correlation between the level of urbanization and istrative status of a town? If there is, Onitsha or Calabar for example, should have been more urbanized today than say, Abuja.

Only touts swear with their descendants.
Even if the urban roads Okorocha government did in Orlu measure up to 5 kilometres, as you claim, so what? Considering the large expanse of Orlu urban town, that is like a drop of water in the sea.
Visit Orlu, its urban roads are mostly fully built on both sides with houses with unpaved roads, but not dangerous because the roads' surfaces were not scrapped and abandoned.

Even the many roads built by Udenwa istration and NDDC here are left by Okorocha government to rot away without maintenance.

What is being highlighted here and elsewhere is the necessity to save thousands of people in Orlu the possible eruption of lung diseases as they have been inhaling dust from the roads scrapped by Okorocha contractors in the last four years.

Centje who recently brought pictures from Orlu sounds like a medical doctor or another sort of health worker, ask him/her the implications for a population subjected to prolonged inhalation of dust from scrapped roads.

Afam4eva:
The Imo state government should think of creating a city out of Mmahu, Egbema. They already have the trappings such as quality roads and layout. What they're lacking is what quasi towns that are not even up to Orlu and Okigwe level possess and that is some level of commercial activity. Mmahu should be made to compete with nearby Omoku in Rivers State.

not sure government is responsible for commercialization of an environment

This hopeless old man I have warned you to always avoid mentioning any part of Anambra and its people. Focus on your worthless state and leave us alone. We are not interested in you or wherever you come from because we have nothing in common.

Whenever you are held hostage with facts here you will start dragging anything and anybody to drown with you. We will come to camp here real soon to treat your fvck up since you don't want to respect your old age.


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Abagworo:


Owerri was only 4th behind Onitsha, Aba and Enugu in population but 2nd most important after Onitsha in religion. In of istration Port Harcourt was even under Owerri province just like Orlu, Aba, Umuahia, Ohafia and Okigwe. The old Imo State was created out of Owerri province following removal of Ahoada from Owerri. Only Ebonyi part of Imo was from Ogoja province.

Now to Orlu. If the entire stretch of Road done in Orlu area is less than 5km may all my descendants perish but if its more than 2km may all your descendants perish.

I say amen to mine which is 5 km say amen to yours.

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Abagworo:


He wants development to spread to outskirts of the town. The Stadium was built by Udenwa in his village of Amaifeke which is beside Orlu urban while Okorocha moved it far to Okporo which is Beremx's hometown. Most of Okorocha's projects in Orlu are sited at Okporo town. Mandax is related to Udenwa and is bitter about Okorocha overshadowing them in Orlu town. The state of that road you plied from Nkwerre was the state of most roads in Orlu before Okorocha. Orlu was more rural.

The stadium is located at Umuowa and not Okporo. Can you please name the projects Okorocha sited in Orlu except the School of Midwifery?

mandax:



I told you about near-equal urbanization levels between Owerri, Orlu and Okigwe in 1976 when Imo state was created but you talk about the istrative status of Owerri then and beyond. Is there any correlation between the level of urbanization and istrative status of a town? If there is, Onitsha or Calabar for example, should have been more urbanized today than say, Abuja.

Only touts swear with their descendants.
Even if the urban roads Okorocha government did in Orlu measure up to 5 kilometres, as you claim, so what? Considering the large expanse of Orlu urban town, that is like a drop of water in the sea.
Visit Orlu, its urban roads are mostly fully built on both sides with houses with unpaved roads, but not dangerous because the roads' surfaces were not scrapped and abandoned.

Even the many roads built by Udenwa istration and NDDC here are left by Okorocha government to rot away without maintenance.

What is being highlighted here and elsewhere is the necessity to save thousands of people in Orlu the possible eruption of lung diseases as they have been inhaling dust from the roads scrapped by Okorocha contractors in the last four years.

Centje who recently brought pictures from Orlu sounds like a medical doctor or another sort of health worker, ask him/her the implications for a population subjected to prolonged inhalation of dust from scrapped roads.

Say amen to that if you are not a born liar. Finally list 2 roads done by Udenwa. The NDDC roads were attracted by Nzeribe from my town and Idiga. Nzeribe equally attracted dualisation of Owerri-Onitsha road and repaving of Orlu-Owerri and Ihiala-Anara. Since you people pushed him away no other lawmaker from Orlu zone has attracted such federal presence.

Afam4eva:
The Imo state government should think of creating a city out of Mmahu, Egbema. They already have the trappings such as quality roads and layout. What they're lacking is what quasi towns that are not even up to Orlu and Okigwe level possess and that is some level of commercial activity. Mmahu should be made to compete with nearby Omoku in Rivers State.

You are intelligent and your idea has already been grabbed.


http://www.channelstv.com/2015/08/25/imo-state-presents-industrialisation-plan-in-trade-investment-forum/

As contained in a plan presented at a Trade
Investment Forum on Monday, the park would be
located in Ohaji Egbema and Oguta oil producing
areas of the state in eastern Nigeria, with a target
to generate about five billion dollars yearly.
The three-day Imo Trade Investment Forum is
organised by the State government and is holding
at the Imo State Trade Investment Centre in
Owerri, the Imo State capital.
Declaring the Forum open, the Imo State
Governor, Rochas Okorocha, said that the State
government had already earmarked 20,000
hectares of land in Ohaji Egbema for the easy
take-off of the modern industrial park that will
open Imo state to the world.
He reiterated his commitment to ensuring that
within the next four years, his mission and vision
remained industrialisation, wealth creation and
creation of job opportunities for teaming
unemployed youths in the state.
The newly completed Imo Trade Centre, the
venue for the Forum, came alive on Monday, with
business men and investors both foreign and
local all gathered to witness the first ever
investment forum.
During his campaign for a second term in office,
Governor Okorocha had emphasised his plan to
industrialise the state, with a campaign mantra;
“jobs, jobs, jobs; industry, industry, industry,
industry; factory, factory, factory”.
Since industrialisation and business investment
is the main focus of the Forum, the chairman of
the Imo State Trade Investment Forum
committee, Rex Anunobi and the chairman of the
proposed Industrial Park, Innocent Nzuma, reeled
out the potentials embedded in Imo State, areas
of partnership and the benefits of investing in
Imo State.
Mr Nzuma, who is also the CEO of Zuma Energy
Group, said the Imo Industrial Park when running
is capable of generating about five billion dollars
for the state annually, especially with the large
deposit of gas in Imo state, the presence of the
Ohaji Egbema power plant, the proposed Sam
Mbakwe Cargo Airport and the proximity of Imo
State to other commercial states like Onitsha,
Aba and Port Harcourt.
He urged investors and businessmen, both local
and foreign, to take advantage of the proposed
park and partner with Imo State on the project
that would expectedly boost the economic of the
state and the nation at large.
Foreign investors at the Forum expressed
readiness to do business in the state at the
completion of the Park.
Agriculture, oil and gas, construction,
procurement and logistics, healthcare and
education are the basic areas the Trade
Investment Forum is focusing on.

Beremx:
The stadium is located at Umuowa and not Okporo. Can you please name the projects Okorocha sited in Orlu except the School of Midwifery?

It is still outside the town. What is your definition of projects? Check the length of Owerri-Orlu highway all the way to Akokwa. Thats about 55 to 60km. The man has done much for Orlu and should extend to other places like Mbaise. He can dualise Owerri-Mbaise road to Ahiara junction and equally dualize internal roads in Ahiara/Aboh semi-urban with streetlights. Okigwe zone needs same attention at least to Amaraku.

Abagworo:


It is still outside the town. What is your definition of projects? Check the length of Owerri-Orlu highway all the way to Akokwa. Thats about 55 to 60km. The man has done much for Orlu and should extend to other places like Mbaise. He can dualise Owerri-Mbaise road to Ahiara junction and equally dualize internal roads in Ahiara/Aboh semi-urban with streetlights. Okigwe zone needs same attention at least to Amaraku.

You said most of Rochas's projects in Orlu are sited in Okporo abi? And i said it's a lie!
The only project Rochas built is the school of midwifery for now. I don't think there is any ongoing project as far as i can .

Beremx:
You said most of Rochas's projects in Orlu are sited in Okporo abi? And i said it's a lie!
The only project Rochas built is the school of midwifery for now. I don't think there is any ongoing project as far as i can .

That same area has a lot of things like stadium, judiciary complex, new park and new market. Maybe the towns are different but I thought all were in Okporo.

Beremx:
You said most of Rochas's projects in Orlu are sited in Okporo abi? And i said it's a lie!
The only project Rochas built is the school of midwifery for now. I don't think there is any ongoing project as far as i can .

That same area has a lot of things like new stadium, new judiciary complex, new park, new general hospital and new market. Maybe the towns are different but I thought all were in Okporo.

And Berem I saw one of those primary schools there too .

Abagworo:


That same area has a lot of things like new stadium, new judiciary complex, new park, new general hospital and new market. Maybe the towns are different but I thought all were in Okporo.

And Berem I saw one of those primary schools there too .

They are not all in Okporo. You should have taken pictures for us to see.

The judiciary complex was built by Udenwa and not Rochas and it's not situated in Okporo. Am very sure of that.

EASTSIDAZ:
This hopeless old man I have warned you to always avoid mentioning any part of Anambra and its people. Focus on your worthless state and leave us alone. We are not interested in you or wherever you come from because we have nothing in common.

Whenever you are held hostage with facts here you will start dragging anything and anybody to drown with you. We will come to camp here real soon to treat your fvck up since you don't want to respect your old age.


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Chino,you should take a chill pill. Whatever grouse u have with the person of Abagworo shouldnt spill over to you hating imo state as much as you do. Imo state is an igbo state same way anambra is. You both can engage in healty rivalry spiced with constructive criticisms. But going to the extent of hating another state and speaking evil of it is a no no. Abagworo,same goes to u.
I am a proud imolite and i have got homiez from all over igbo states.

So u guys can do well to tone down the hating

Good morning

asha80:
not sure government is responsible for commercialization of an environment

Government can create an enabling environment for commerce to thrive and this is caputured in the news article that Abagworo posted. We can develop Ohaji/Egbema and Oguta to the extent that they will sprawl towards Avu junction and Ogbaku.

RareDiamonds:
More Pictures of Orlu. @ Centje I think we should show both the good and bad sides of Orlu not just the bad sides

thats not a city... thats a developed village.
But it can be classified as a suburb but never a city.

I don't care but he should focus on his state but should expect me once he crosses the line. It is as simple as that.

vivalavida:


Chino,you should take a chill pill. Whatever grouse u have with the person of Abagworo shouldnt spill over to you hating imo state as much as you do. Imo state is an igbo state same way anambra is. You both can engage in healty rivalry spiced with constructive criticisms. But going to the extent of hating another state and speaking evil of it is a no no. Abagworo,same goes to u.
I am a proud imolite and i have got homiez from all over igbo states.

So u guys can do well to tone down the hating

Good morning

MyGeneration:

thats not a city... thats a developed village.
But it can be classified as a suburb but never a city.

A suburb is usually part of greater city. What greater city is Orlu part of? Orly can be classified as a small town and that still makes it a city.

Afam4eva:

Government can create an enabling environment for commerce to thrive and this is caputured in the news article that Abagworo posted. We can develop Ohaji/Egbema and Oguta to the extent that they will sprawl towards Avu junction and Ogbaku.

Have you been to Oguta? Oguta sprawls to Mgbidi and is quite developed and well organised. What Okorocha can do for us is to dualise the road from Mgbidi to Oguta town with well marked roads. We have the money to invest in tourism sector. We need the resort either completely re -organised or concessioned to a serious investor.

NB Oguta is different from Oguta LGA.

Afam4eva:

A suburb is usually part of greater city. What greater city is Orlu part of? Orly can be classified as a small town and that still makes it a city.

Orlu is a small town but the urban has expanded to neighbouring communities. A little more fill up of scanty farmlands and Nkwerre will merge with Orlu and Amaigbo.

I invite all Igbos coming from diaspora not to miss coming to Owerri this Xmas. The biggest Christmas tree in Nigeria will be unveiled today and the city is indeed beautiful with well built Hotels and ts for relaxation. It is tge only city with functioning well organised parks.

Abagworo:

Have you been to Oguta? Oguta sprawls to Mgbidi and is quite developed and well organised. What Okorocha can do for us is to dualise the road from Mgbidi to Oguta town with well marked roads. We have the money to invest in tourism sector. We need the resort either completely re -organised or concessioned to a serious investor.
NB Oguta is different from Oguta LGA.

I have been to Oguta and i'm aware that is is different from Oguta LGA.

Beremx:
You said most of Rochas's projects in Orlu are sited in Okporo abi? And i said it's a lie!
The only project Rochas built is the school of midwifery for now. I don't think there is any ongoing project as far as i can .

and he placed a giant billboard in front of said school, with his face on it like the money came from his father's pocket

Imo people elected a politician, not a governor.

Abagworo:
I invite all Igbos coming from diaspora not to miss coming to Owerri this Xmas. The biggest Christmas tree in Nigeria will be unveiled today and the city is indeed beautiful with well built Hotels and ts for relaxation. It is tge only city with functioning well organised parks.

meanwhile, salaries are yet to be paid o, but the buffoon spent millions on christmas decorations done by chinese contractors.

I just stumble on this, decided to share. me think rochas has destroyed imo state. besides what I suffered on owerri road on my way to p-town is a story for another day. I dont know why all these abuja buses still this route? the whole town was jammed with traffic. will share d pix when I settle down.




Workers in Imo shut down state over 13 months unpaid salaries and allowances By Maduabuchi | December 2, 2015

Sick of the inability of the state government to pay salaries and allowances for up to 13 months in some cases, angry civil servants in Imo state took to the street in a protest that virtually shut down the state capital Owerri on Tuesday.

Governor-Rochas-Okorocha

Most of the workers, who wore black attires, a symbol of grief, wept and sang while directing curses at the istration of Governor Rochas Okorocha.

“What have we done to Okorocha to deserve his punishment?’ ‘Governor Nebuchadenazar, pay us our salaries,’ ‘Our children are suffering,’ ‘Rochas, the Idi Amin of our time,’ and ‘We have never had it this bad,” where inscribe on the placards some of them were carrying.

According to the workers, Okorocha mismanagement of the state resources is responsible for his inability to pay workers.

“The judiciary staff are now owed for nine months and the end of their travails appears not yet in sight. We are really in for hard times in this state and the governor is not worried about our plight,” one of the workers said.

According to the Vanguard newspaper, workers of the state’s Water Board have not been paid for 12 months; Library Board, eight months; Due Process, nine months; Imo Marketing Board, 10 months; Imo Specialist Hospital, 13 months; Hospital Management Board, nine months, and Imo ADP, 10 months.

The State Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr. Austin Chilakpu, said that the workers were left with no choice than to embark of the protest following the repeated failure of the government to honour agreements reached with workers in the past.

“The leadership of the NLC had, on November 13, promised workers that the state government would pay their salaries on November 17, based on the agreement it entered into with labour but failed.

“This failure on the part of government made the workers to doubt the inability of the organised labour to fight for their rights,” Chilakpu said.

Source: The Vanguard

^^^^owerri ph road is a federal road though