TundeBricklayer:
DSS NABBED UBAH AFTER RALLY FLIES HIM TO ABUJA OVER A POLITICAL RELATED MURDER / DESTRUCTION OF CAMPAIGN VEHICLES

A joint team of the men of director of state security services ( DSD) yesterday 29th April 2021 arrested the YPP governorship aspirant in Anambra State, Mr. Ifeanyi Ubah over a confirmed incident that occurred at Igbukwu in Aguata three( 3) days ago where some political campaign cars were reported burnt into ashes.

Our information revealed that Mr. Ubah was arrested after attending his ongoing political visit to some parts of the state

An eyewitness who confirmed that the arrested said it is in connection with the recent burning of campaign cars and other security reports linked to Ifeanyi Ubah especially in Anambra as confirmed through several suspects who have confessed to the crime.

It was also confirmed that the team moved him to Abuja and all attempts to hear from his media failed as none were ready to respond to media agents present.

Jidechukwu Nwanze
Orifite, Anambra state

Rocksvibes234:
Note: Anambra airport is yet to be commissioned.
What they did on 30th April was testing the runway and Also making history of the first aircraft to land in Anambra soil tagged as demonstration of maiden flights.

Account to commissioner of works ANSG, the airport Will be commissioned in two months time or thereabouts

Rocksvibes234:
1. Since the test-landing of two commercial aircraft belonging to Air Peace and a corporate jet belonging to the chairman of the Anambra State Investment Promotion and Protection Agency, Ike Chioke, at Anambra International Cargo/Passenger Airport on Friday, April 30, 2021, the whole nation has been ecstatic about the incredible progress at Nigeria’s most modern airport. Apart from being the first time jet planes have ever landed in Anambra State, the airport has seized the national imagination on account of its being built up to global standards in just 15 months without a loan from any institution anywhere in the world. This is a very impressive record anywhere.

2. It is regrettable, however, that this stupendous accomplishment by the people and Government of Anambra State has not gone down well with a coterie of politically exposed persons who are determined to ruin their own state, all in the name of the gubernatorial vote in the state which will hold on November 6, 2021. The shadowy characters have alleged, for instance, that a whopping two billion dollars ($2bn) has been spent on the airport which has yet to be completed.

3. Two billion dollars ($2bn) translates to nine hundred and sixty billion naira (N960bn), almost a trillion naira (N1tr). This amount is far in excess of the combination of Anambra State budgets in almost the last 10 years. That is, the sum of current and recurrent expenditures since 2001! This is obviously taking fiction too far. It is preposterous. The peddlers of this rumour are not intelligent. The size of the 2021 budget is one hundred and forty thousand naira (N140bn), the biggest in our state’s history, while the size of the 2020 budget was one hundred and thirty seven billion naira (N137bn).

4. The budgetary provision for the airport in the 2020 budget was eight billion naira (N8 billion). And the provision in the 2021 budget is fifty million naira (N50m). The 2021 financial year is far from gone and the airport is still not completed. Therefore, the budgetary provision for this year is not yet exhausted. Even if the total amount for the airport is added to that of last year, it will come to eight billion and fifty million naira. It has to be noted that there are ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) which are directly and indirectly involved in the airport development. The Ministry of Works, for example, is building roads and bridges, among others, leading to the airport and within the airport. It may cost about fifty million dollars ($50m) to complete the first phase of this grand airport which is in a class of its own. In other words, it is nothing near the almost one trillion naira which the political propagandists who hate Anambra State with a passion are bandying about. They will leave nothing to chance in the determination to discredit the state and ruin the homeland of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Dr Alex Ekwueme, Dim Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Francis Cardinal Arinze, Professor K.O. Dike, Professor Chinua Achebe, Dr Nwafor Orizu, Sir Louis Ojukwu, Olauda Equiano, Professor Chukwuemeka Ike, Professor Laz Ekwueme, Professor Ben Enweonwu, Professor Uche Okeke, Dr Arthur Nwankwo, Cyprian Ekwensi, Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, Professor Chike Obi, Professor Alex Animalu, Professor Ben Obumselu, Professor Emmanuel Obiechina, Mokwugo Okoye, Sir Louis Mbanefo, Professor Gordian Ezekwe, Chief Arthur Mbanefo, Professor Ben Nwabueze, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili, Professor Dora Akunyili, Mrs Janet Muokelu, Chief Jerome Udoji, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and many other world-class achievers.

5. The State Government has made it an article of faith to limit expenditures to budgetary provisions. The result is the humungous fiscal discipline which has enabled the state to carry out projects and programmes which, as the Joint National Assembly Committee on Aviation publicly stated during its inspection of Anambra International Cargo/Passenger Airport on March 27, 2021, even richer states like petroleum-bearing ones are unable to execute. No wonder, on August 31, 2020, BudGIT, funded by the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, published a report showing Anambra and petroleum-rich Rivers State have the best fiscal responsibility indices of all 36 states in Nigeria plus the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja.

6. If not for the prudent financial management of the state’s lean resources, the airport could have cost two billion dollars ($2bn). Maybe this is the amount which would have been expended on it if the project had been handled by the shadowy politicians whom the great Chinua Achebe most memorably described as “renegades who want to turn my homeland of Anambra State into a bankrupt and wretched fiefdom”.

7. The Government and people of Anambra State are delighted that the delivery of Anambra International Cargo/Passenger Airport has been attracting the attention of not just the Nigerian public or the aviation sector or the tourism industry but also leading researchers in financial management, project management and related disciplines. Governor Willie Obiano, by building a world-class international airport in 15 months and without borrowing from any financial institution, has demonstrated, once again, his solid background in banking, auditing, accounting, business management and political leadership. The airport will certainly make a rewarding study in prudent management of resources.

God bless Anambra State, the Light of the Nation.

Signed

C. Don Adinuba
Commissioner for Information & Public Enlightenment.

Pass11:

Governor Umahi is building an international airport bigger than Anambra own without making noise about it.Obiano pay media agencies should come up with other obiano project biko.

ChimaAdeoye:
At the point where the dual carriage airport road starts from the Enugu - Onitsha expressway, I wish we could put a solid airport sign built with blocks on bricks background, as we find abroad. Instead of the usual ugly corrugated iron sheet, we use as signboards in Nigeria. Which after a few months rust and become an eyesore.

These signs are also artwork that helps to beautify a city and a state by creating landmark junctions. Let this airport truly introduce new and better ways of doing things to the highest quality instead of our local ways of doing everything to be the lowest quality in the world.

cjrane:


What is even wrong with you people?

We love Gov. Umahi doing a great airport in Abakaliki, just as we applaud Obiano for completing a world-class international airport in record time. If Gov Umahi keeps to his promise to make a 4KM runway, then we shall praise him after we verify that he indeed built a 4KM longest runway in Nigeria. Until he actually does it, it is still all noise for now.

There is NO REASON you guys should not be happy for Anambra, just as Anambra people will also rejoice with Ebonyians when Umahi completes his airport.

My concern with Umahi's airport is that its going too slowly that he might not complete it before his tenure runs out. I am hoping that he manages to complete it.

Rocksvibes234:
Ebonyi Airport is developed on 4km by 4km of land approx 1400 hactres, the runway is 3.5km the tarmac is 100x10 X304mm thickness which is 1 foot concrete

Anambra airport is developed on a more than 2100 hactres with, the runway is 3.7km with 2km resa (5.7km), the tarmac is 300x200 x 560mm thickness which is 1.8foot concrete almost 2foot.

The only things about Ebonyi Airport is the big terminal they're building that's all

Anyways both governors are doing well

ANSMEDIA:


It is 3000m(3km) runway

chiefobdk:


Please stop the hype.. If Obiano could do this project what stopped him from doing similar projects depending on need across the state...

I am from Nnewi but i cant beat my chest and proudly mention any Obiano project in Nnewi town...

Obiano did well in this airport but overall i am disappointed....

Why be say na dis airport everyone keep taking about.. 6 billion naira project should be normal for a state as developed as Anambra is

Rocksvibes234:
Ebonyi Airport is developed on 4km by 4km of land approx 1400 hactres, the runway is 3.5km the tarmac is 100x10 X304mm thickness which is 1 foot concrete

Anambra airport is developed on a more than 2100 hactres with, the runway is 3.7km with 2km resa (5.7km), the tarmac is 300x200 x 560mm thickness which is 1.8foot concrete almost 2foot.

The only things about Ebonyi Airport is the big terminal they're building that's all

Anyways both governors are doing well

IDENNAA:



You made a solid point here, bro. And to be honest , I felt Nnewi has been abandoned for many years , but it's partly because Ndi Nnewi are more business inclined than politically inclined. There is no way Nnewi could not use their financial muscles to make Obiano to rearrange Nnewi and plan it to be more visitors friendly. Ndi Nnewi are more concerned about who get money pass who. That's their problem.

And this is what happens when you have a lot of money with little exposure. Also , there is a big divide between the Nnewi businessmen and the political/elite class.

I love the fact that we built an airport, needless to say I was not in support because I felt we had other pressing issues like pipe borne water, retraining primary and secondary school teachers to reach their best potentials. I felt like channeling these funds in upgrading our Teachers College to international standards, building trade schools( Carpentry , Iron works, Mechanics with license) , to keep upgrading our rural hospitals to full capacity. I wanted Obiano to plan the towns around Nnewi , Onicha , Awka , Ihiala and Aguleri/Umuleri so that when developments starts spilling into these towns they dont end up becoming a slums another slum like Okpoko. I wanted many things before this airport but the airport is here and I can't pull it down. My only choice is to keep hammering on the areas I felt we need urgent improvements. I want every areas and sectors to be touched and improved.

chiefobdk:


If i get u right. Nnewi people should use thr private money to develop the town while Obiano tax Nnewi to develop other places. Did this ur submission make sense?

IDENNAA:


Please , Obiano isn't using Nnewi tax money to develop Anambra, after Nnewi doesn't pay more taxes than my own Idemmili. So , chill. Try not to be emotional and write with some logic. Ndi Nnewi nwelu ego but they have failed to use it to their advantage. And no you don't have to pull your personal finance to build infrastructures , because that's the government's job. But , how many times did Igwe Orizu mobilized all Nnewi illustrious sons and daughters (Kingsley Muoghalu, Ibeto, Coscharis, Innoson, Ifeanyi Ubah, Chisco etc) to pay Obiano a visit and present an Nnewi agenda ? The answer is zero! Money nobi everything.

Go to Nnewi you see buildings in every little piece of land you can find defacing the town and making it look uninhabitable. The whole place look like a slum with nice houses. However, I am not cutting Obiano any slack because thats his job but he failed Umuanaedo and I believe we all can agree.

IDENNAA:


[s]Please , Obiano isn't using Nnewi tax money to develop Anambra, after Nnewi doesn't pay more taxes than my own Idemmili. So , chill. Try not to be emotional and write with some logic. Ndi Nnewi nwelu ego but they have failed to use it to their advantage. And no you don't have to pull your personal finance to build infrastructures , because that's the government's job. But , how many times did Igwe Orizu mobilized all Nnewi illustrious sons and daughters (Kingsley Muoghalu, Ibeto, Coscharis, Innoson, Ifeanyi Ubah, Chisco etc) to pay Obiano a visit and present an Nnewi agenda ? The answer is zero! Money nobi everything.

Go to Nnewi you see buildings in every little piece of land you can find defacing the town and making it look uninhabitable. The whole place look like a slum with nice houses. However, I am not cutting Obiano any slack because thats his job but he failed Umuanaedo and I believe we all can agree[/s].

chiefobdk:



The places Obiano built did the community leaders go to beg before they got the projects... Una go just dey use emotions dey talk trash..


Tell me ur town in idemmili lets compare it with Nnewi... You dont lump a group of towns and pit against a single town... The tax from Ibeto factory and TUMMY TUMMY overshadow whatever money they get from ur residential village.. I will assume u re talking about Idemili North....... nkpor and obosi.. Because if na south... Nothing dey south

Pass11:

Governor Umahi is building an international airport bigger than Anambra own without making noise about it.Obiano pay media agencies should come up with other obiano project biko.

Chikeluba25:
From what am even seeing in that 3D design. I saw something like tower attached to the roof. Since they are claiming that plane will land there before the yr end, and we are yet to see a sign of control tower; maybe Umahi will use local pattern of attaching tower to the terminal roof.... there is nothing special in Ebonyi airport.

globemoney01:

Where did you get the nonsense that Umahi is building an airport bigger than Anambra own? By runway or what? Umahi cant even even afford to build an airport bigger than Anambra own. All he goes to inspect every time is their terminal building, where is the control tower, runway, apron, access roads, etc.

Obiano never made any noise about Anambra Airport until it reached its advance stage, he even banned the media from accessing the project but check nairaland how many times umahi has gone to inspect Ebonyi terminal and yet nothing tangible, immediately he heard of Anambra test running, he quickly rushed there for another inspection. So who is paying media agencies here?

You haters and losers should advise Umahi that Obiano is not his mate.. He should stop competing with someone that is miles above him in governance. I'm very certain that if Obiano did not build Anambra airport there would be nothing like ebonyi airport.

Pass11:

Oga you are well known political prostitute from Ngige to obiano,so I understand your hustling side in defending every government.

globemoney01:

And you are an enemy of progress, take your wailing out here and go back to facebook. I responded to you usual nonsense and instead of staying on topic you deflected to nonsense. I defend every govt, why didnt I defend peter obi govt, ewu