Imanuelle: The article was on and on about owerri, with just a few lines talking about the school.

I think the governor has reduced imo state as a whole to owerri.

Hotels, hotels and more hotels.

Just a few things about the other parts of the state are worthy of note.

jbaur24:


Is this 120 schools built by okorocha? He built this one lumped up hot in the name of school. okorocha is a failure. That is a fact! There is no amount of propaganda that can change the fact that imo state has been unlucky with leaders from ohakin and now okorocha. You people should wise up and elect a fraud-free gov.

Biafra diplomat: You're a very dishonest man, Imo has not lacked good leaders except perhaps Achike Udenwa, even Ohakim was not performing badly but he was unfortunate to be up against an institution in the mould of Okorocha. Okorocha has not disappointed the Imolites in terms of performance but his greatest undoing is dining with the hypocrites called ACN. Imo is a PDP state but APGA equally has a large following and Igbos are emotionally and sentimantally attached to the party. I hope Rochas would jilt ACN because the party is now seen as being controled by their enemies. 2015 is unpredictable and Imo is a highly enlightened and literate state, he will not be giving the presidential ticket of ACN or is it APC for obvious reasons.

Imanuelle: This was the class block that was being used while ohakim was in office, it was so messed Up until UBE intervened with 2 classroom blocks and a staff room.


Below it is the recent one by rochas .

It's just 2 blocks.

A total of 12 classrooms altogether.

And still UNDER CONSTRUCTION! !

greatgilbert:

Let me give you a few examples of what is wrong with that environment:
1- tarred major road adjacent to classroom windows
2- distractions from people doing PE (Physical Education is a subject at school or you don't know)
3- you have only 8hours per day for effective teaching/learner so that environment is not so arranged
4- 2013, technology, technology. I will tell you that I have been searching to see what was installed outside boy nothing oh I saw water-tank. No technology
5- somebody is confusing entrance/exit with fire-escape
6- ability for modern crowd control and security not visible

Do you want more

Abagworo:

Even Udenwa didn't perform badly. He built the present secretariat and actualized New Owerri which remained a dream 23 years after its planning. He also maintained Owerri well.

Biafra diplomat: Rochas did not reduce Imo to Owerri, rather on the contrary he took development to the hitherto abandoned glorified villages like Orlu and Okigwe, today, those two places can be termed emerging cities.

Abagworo:

Even Udenwa didn't perform badly. He built the present secretariat and actualized New Owerri which remained a dream 23 years after its planning. He also maintained Owerri well.

millionaireman:

Okigwe and Orlu as once glorified villages but now emerging cities? Well, provided the road projects the governor started in them are not abandoned at the long run.
Okigwe, Orlu and Owerri - there were little or no differences in sizes between those three towns when Imo state was created in 1976. Issue has been that some people in Imo state made it a point of duty that every state governor must be cornered to accept that all there is in a state for development is the state capital alone. Thus Okigwe and Orlu have remained under-developed ever since. And that factor has made Imo the least developed among those created at the same time with it. Wonder why the two cities of Okigwe and Orlu had engaged themselves in a long race to exit the present Imo state to form the nucleus of any new state to be created in the southeast.

Biafra diplomat: yea, though he was lopsided, concentrated at Orlu axis, built the teaching hospital there, stadium and regional market also( even when Eke Onuwa market Owerri is congested).

Biafra diplomat: paucity of funds is most likely the reason why the Okigwe and Orlu roads are on hold, its apparent that Rochas is in a haste to develope Imo state which informed his decision to state so many projects at the same time, at a point I began to wonder if Imo was this rich for him to be financing all these projects simultaneously. There was a song I used to hear when I was young and it goes thus; Obodo n'ile emepechala.., ya afo Okigwe na Orlu.., ndi na achi ha amaghi ihe! But Rochas has come to change that mantra for good.

Abagworo:
Project has over-stayed. Show me any other governor that has built 120 schools since 2011. All the schools are not same size though. I believe they were built according to the expectant population of each area involved.

taharqa2: And a large chunck of these schools wud have bn built with FG's 50% UBEC Counterpact fund... Can't just undastand why many State Govts wud not just acknowlege this. It took a long time and lots of arguments b4 Baba Oshio grundgely admitted the contribution of UBEC funding in most of d schools he is renovating/rebuiding in Edo State (and he has done a pretty impressive job so far)!!..... Anyways, congrats to d people of Imo, and God bless Okorocha and others pushing this

Imanuelle:

actually, I just visited the village,
I'm from mbaise , the things that are of note are, a round about, built at ahiara junction, but since it's on a federal road, then I believe it's got little or nothing to do with the governor.

The primary school is the only change I have noticed in my village so far, alongside the flagging off of a road construction from afor-ogbe to aba.
however, all the trucks and machines have since disappeared after the flag off.


As for owerri, I think it it neater, there's a junction that cuts accross wetheral and bank road, another monumental round about has been erected there.

Douglas road may never change, probably due to the market there. it's both dirty and always a no go area if you are driving.

These are the few things I've observed in my short stay. I may not know about policies and other things, I definitely cannot see the whole of the state , but I've just explained my day to day observations.



Updated with Pictures


as at the time of this post, the truck wasn't there, but by the time I went back to take pictures, the truck came in.

Some security guys also.


However, it is obvious that this is a federal project.

Lordjunta: Pls we ar no longer kids here,any report or claim without any action pictures is as good as a Biology teaching without illustrations,history without dates. Rochas played into d hand of Gen. Buhari in 2003 and he was taught a red letter lesson. Now he has once again played into d hands of d combined Evil of Buhari and Tinubu. I weep for him. He wants to be president of Ogboko abi? Time wil tell.

Imanuelle: The whole article was about owerri.

I'm gonna snap the almost completed school close to my house tomorrow.


Sorry about the picture quality , I had to crop, due to nairaland's 200kb limitation.

Imanuelle:

the school you have in the picture you uploaded is probably the best he built .

I know that one on wetheral, that's even why the pedestrian bridge was constructed.

But I hope you will agree , that the school structure on wetheral is not same for all 120..

some others are just 2 classroom blocks . some are more, some are less.

bruno419: yea i am 4rm ogbe in mbaise,owelle is really trying but the contractors had to use wood on ours instead of the lite metal used by others

jbaur24:

sherbol: What 120 schools?I reside in Owerri n I work in d educational sector,there is nothing like that.d nature of ma job carries me around schools in Imo state n I ve nt seen what u r talking abt.apart 4m d OWERRI CITY SCHOOLS on Wetheral there is nothing like dat.pls don't misinform piple hear.

taharqa2: And a large chunck of these schools wud have bn built with FG's 50% UBEC Counterpact fund... Can't just undastand why many State Govts wud not just acknowlege this. It took a long time and lots of arguments b4 Baba Oshio grundgely admitted the contribution of UBEC funding in most of d schools he is renovating/rebuiding in Edo State (and he has done a pretty impressive job so far)!!..... Anyways, congrats to d people of Imo, and God bless Okorocha and others pushing this

gidson12:
Mrs know all......now without basic education who's gonna work in that your job creation, and who's gonna have the knowledge to create and manage a job well, on the contrary underdeveloped countries needs basic education to be creative inother to develop itself, people shouldnt wait for government to creat jobs for them all the time education can develop your mind to creat a job for yourself thereby reducing unemployment....
for on your point about roads and electricity, BASIC EDUCATION is very important.
every government has his plan and road map on how to govern, maybe this guy just want to start with education and gradually take it up from there touching every other needs.....remember this is just 2yrs into his administration don't be so critical.......

use your head

some-girl:


I do mind very much and I have yet to give you permission to do so, so don't thank me yet.
You may refer to yourself as such however.

Education and the abundance of SECONDARY SCHOOLS is less important in an underdeveloped country with little job prospects after graduation.

Upgrading existing secondary schools and perhaps adding a few extra schools in target areas, and providing goods roads to facilitate transportation to and from these schools would have sufficed.

You are the type of person nigerian leaders like; those who, like them, have trouble focusing on the big picture.

kel4soft:

Without education you won't know that, Education is less important to roads and electricity. So you have finally contracdicted to yourself.

Imanuelle: The whole article was about owerri.

I'm gonna snap the almost completed school close to my house tomorrow.


Sorry about the picture quality , I had to crop, due to nairaland's 200kb limitation.

Lordjunta: if dis is wht u tagged, Okorocha has completed 120 modern schools in Imo den u need to visit Amechi's Rivers and c wht is d completion of modern schools. No doubt, empty druns makes d loudest noise bt a drun filled wit somethin doesnt make sound.U should be ashamed of urself dt a man is sucking and blowing breez to educated-yet unconscious and unsuspected Imolites. 2 yrs LG allocatns embezzled,Ministries and parastaters subventions crippled,ITC sold, Adapalm sold,Lamonde real estate biz liters evrywh in d state,Imo educatn trust fund duly funded is whr. My friend pls remove d scale in ur eyes,and knw yee dt all Nigerian Politicians ar d same,bt some ar diplomatic thieves dan d others.

some-girl:


My point, which you and your cohorts have failed to understand, is simply that the state doesn't need so many NEW secondary schools. He, like most Nigerian governors, do things like this to make people believe they are doing a lot when in fact they are doing very little.