Sufferingboy:


Afonja go and die.How is your dirty Ibadan?

Lol, you really must be new to nairaland. Please do small research about Proeast before embarrassing yourself.

This thread is to proffer ideas on how to develop the gold mine in Aba and never about mockery. I'm the last person that will mock an enterprising city like Aba.

proeast:


No, don't put the blame on shop owners please. The state government is absolutely to blame here.

When Oshodi was demolished, do you know how much the traders tried to resist?

When Eke Onuwa Owerri was demolished, do you know how much the traders tried to resist?

It's only a passionate governor or government that knows its onions will look at the bigger picture and do what is right regardless of the challenges it may face. Those that condemn him at that point will later praise him, and posterity will judge him well.

People naturally resist change!

You are not getting my point, the shop owners should come together and have a solid plan or agreement with the government and the developer, as it's stand there is no trust and those shop owners are not going to fold there arms and watch a government to take away there shops and reallocate it to highest bidders.

nabiz:
It seems abia state leaderscdont know the value of Ariaria market. Governor dave Umahi should pls offer Ariaria producer and manufacturers 2years tax and free shop rent to come and occupy our newly constructed international market

umahi is ebonyi state governor

proeast:


Lol, you really must be new to nairaland. Please do small research about Proeast before embarrassing yourself.

This thread is to proffer ideas on how to develop the gold mine in Aba and never about mockery. I'm the last person that will mock an enterprising city like Aba.

Afonja,you cannot deceive me.How is Ibadan?

FIRST CASUALITY OF A SIT AT HOME MADNESS,YU PPL DONT THINK ANYMORE KEEP MISBEHAVING WITH KANU...

proeast:
Anyone who visits Ariaria market will weep at the opportunities wasting away. This market is unarguably one of Africa's largest markets with tens of thousands of shops and production clusters. This market that used to be a pride to not just Aba or Abia State but indeed all Igbos has been reduced to a source of shame and embarrassment.

That Ariaria was allowed to decay is an indictment on all the governors that have ruled Abia State since 1999. It shows they're all a bunch of mediocres who are not fit to govern a state. I was going through my Twitter page a couple of pages ago only to be embarrassed at gory pictures that were trending and they called it Ariaria! The worst is that some of the handles displaying it has hundreds of thousands to millions of followers cut across the globe! In a modern world where information travels at the speed of light, this was nothing but gross demarketing of Aba, Abia State and to an extent SE region. It was indeed a huge shame!! Then I wondered why Ariaria would be like that, a market hub and production centre?!

Ariaria is not just a marketing hub but also a massive production cluster where goods like shoes, bags, cloths, belts are mass produced. However, it makes one to cringe when you look at how irresponsible governance has allowed a goldmine to be wasting away when it requires just policy making and passion to turn the tide and make Ariaria the money spinner it ought to be for Abia State.

It has become critical for Ariaria to be demolished in phases and be replaced with either a massive mall or several mid sized malls and plazas clustered together. There is nothing modern or international about Ariaria in its present state. I don't know if Okezie Ikpeazu is just plain wicked, bereft of ideas or an ogboni man to have left Ariaria in that state. Can't he look at what is going on in Ebonyi State and the revolutionary works of Umahi. Ebonyi is supposed to be a far poorer state than Abia but the sort of projects Umahi builds is something all the idiotic governors of Abia State combined can't achieve since 1999!

I had written severally in the past on the need to replace the archaic lock up shops in Ariaria with massive malls or plazas but nothing seems to change. Instead of having 30,000 derelict shops that get flooded and has leaky roofs whenever it rains, build modern malls and plazas. Construct a dual carriage way and connect it to the Osisioma end of the Enugu/P.H expressway.

What makes it more ironical is that the state government does not even need to spend its own money to achieve this because private investors and banks will be falling over themselves to invest on an extremely viable project such as Ariaria. Again, Ariaria already has a small power plant and Shell recently constructed a gas pipeline to Aba that will be supplying cheap and reliable gas for power generation. In addition, Geometric power is also in Aba, generating huge megawatts of electricity. What this means is that massive malls can be built and they will still be affordable, safe, and conducive since traders won't have need to be wasting money on fueling or repairing their noisy generators and suffering losses from flood or leaking roof.

The multiplier effect on Aba would be massive because international brands like LG and Samsung will start coming in to open branches in Aba. Employment will increase, revenue will increase, quality of life will improve and people will start rushing back to Aba like it used to be in the past.

then you must return your kerosene.
Tell your governor to visit El rufai for advice.

Cyberterror:
Aba as a whole is an eyesore. The whole town should be demolished and rebuilt from scratch.

funny

Hehehehehe

Proeast don vex be dat!

Sufferingboy:


Afonja go and die.How is your dirty Ibadan?

You are the real Afonja trying to discredit a good idea from proeast. Majority of Nairalanders knows that PRO-EAST is Igbotic to the core that seeks the development and togetherness or Ndigbo.

ImmaculateJOE:

You are the real Afonja trying to discredit a good idea from proeast. Majority of Nairalanders knows that PRO-EAST is Igbotic to the core that seeks the development and togetherness or Ndigbo.

Aboki mind your business.

Yorubas are fanatically obsessed with Igbos. See how they have already invaded this thread to spew trash as usual. Tufiakwa!

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You are the real Afonja trying to discredit a good idea from proeast. Majority of Nairalanders knows that PRO-EAST is Igbotic to the core that seeks the development and togetherness

Poor aboki

blues234:
Yorubas are fanatically obsessed with Igbos. See how they have already invaded this thread to spew trash as usual. Tufiakwa!

Don't mind them.

Ngorbungor:


For me I won't blame the government, I will rather blame the shop owners, truth be told the government has tried to rebuild that market but the shop owners never wanted that to happen, because they don't trust the government and many other reasons.

I'm saying this because my uncle and my cousin have a shop in ariaria.

You don't want to blame Abia state government?
Same government that allowed additional nonsense shop constructions from Orji Uzor, T A Orji to Ikpeazu.

So shop owners are more powerful than government?

If the government is serious, they should offer compensation plans of the rebuilding for those that don't want reallocation.

But the government is not willing to pay to make things better.

If the drainage network in Faulks road is not good, flooding will remain a normal occurrence in Ariaria, no matter how beautiful Ariaria is.

proeast:
Anyone who visits Ariaria market will weep at the opportunities wasting away. This market is unarguably one of Africa's largest markets with tens of thousands of shops and production clusters. This market that used to be a pride to not just Aba or Abia State but indeed all Igbos has been reduced to a source of shame and embarrassment.

That Ariaria was allowed to decay is an indictment on all the governors that have ruled Abia State since 1999. It shows they're all a bunch of mediocres who are not fit to govern a state. I was going through my Twitter page a couple of pages ago only to be embarrassed at gory pictures that were trending and they called it Ariaria! The worst is that some of the handles displaying it has hundreds of thousands to millions of followers cut across the globe! In a modern world where information travels at the speed of light, this was nothing but gross demarketing of Aba, Abia State and to an extent SE region. It was indeed a huge shame!! Then I wondered why Ariaria would be like that, a market hub and production centre?!

Ariaria is not just a marketing hub but also a massive production cluster where goods like shoes, bags, cloths, belts are mass produced. However, it makes one to cringe when you look at how irresponsible governance has allowed a goldmine to be wasting away when it requires just policy making and passion to turn the tide and make Ariaria the money spinner it ought to be for Abia State.

It has become critical for Ariaria to be demolished in phases and be replaced with either a massive mall or several mid sized malls and plazas clustered together. There is nothing modern or international about Ariaria in its present state. I don't know if Okezie Ikpeazu is just plain wicked, bereft of ideas or an ogboni man to have left Ariaria in that state. Can't he look at what is going on in Ebonyi State and the revolutionary works of Umahi. Ebonyi is supposed to be a far poorer state than Abia but the sort of projects Umahi builds is something all the idiotic governors of Abia State combined can't achieve since 1999!

I had written severally in the past on the need to replace the archaic lock up shops in Ariaria with massive malls or plazas but nothing seems to change. Instead of having 30,000 derelict shops that get flooded and has leaky roofs whenever it rains, build modern malls and plazas. Construct a dual carriage way and connect it to the Osisioma end of the Enugu/P.H expressway.

What makes it more ironical is that the state government does not even need to spend its own money to achieve this because private investors and banks will be falling over themselves to invest on an extremely viable project such as Ariaria. Again, Ariaria already has a small power plant and Shell recently constructed a gas pipeline to Aba that will be supplying cheap and reliable gas for power generation. In addition, Geometric power is also in Aba, generating huge megawatts of electricity. What this means is that massive malls can be built and they will still be affordable, safe, and conducive since traders won't have need to be wasting money on fueling or repairing their noisy generators and suffering losses from flood or leaking roof.

The multiplier effect on Aba would be massive because international brands like LG and Samsung will start coming in to open branches in Aba. Employment will increase, revenue will increase, quality of life will improve and people will start rushing back to Aba like it used to be in the past.

Funny thing is that Ngwa road market (Ahiaohuru -second biggest market in aba) is being remodelled line by line by a private investor.

Last we heard of Ariaria being remodelled was just last year. Early 2015, a Chinese investor proposed being given most of Ariaria market to rebuild into a modern multistorey open market, but the market association in Ariaria took the state government to court and it became history.
Annoyingly enough, the foundation to remodel the market is already on ground.

1) Access bank built a top notch 2000 store shopping facility (ekumi shopping centre ) behind Ariaria market. As of today it has close to a 1,000 store empty-because traders refuse to move into it.

2) the 10mw aba ipp in front of A-line Ariaria is investing heavily to provide electricity to the market --(geometric power plant is still cold and now tied to the Chinese Ruyi group project.)

3) A new concrete road ( omuma road )is being built from osusu-Ariaria market .when completed,there will be two roads from main town Aba to the market.


And there isn't a shortage of investors willing to buy into the project.All the state government needs to do is to resolve there the lingering issues the have with the Ariaria market unions about shop allocation in a remodelled market (current shop holders are refusing to vacate or pay for a remodelled shop)

NGpatriot:
That rotten and decayed market is not the problem, your dirty and filthy lifestyle is the problem and it doesn't matter where you relocate to or what you build, the same rotten and decayed problem wount go away.


Change your dirty and unsanitary ways, it's a matter of public safety.

This is the root cause and changing this is the only lasting solution.

eduj:





Funny thing is that Ngwa road market (Ahiaohuru -second biggest market in aba) is being remodelled line by line by a private investor.

Last we heard of Ariaria being remodelled was just last year. Early 2015, a Chinese investor proposed being given most of Ariaria market to rebuild into a modern multistorey open market, but the market association in Ariaria took the state government to court and it became history.
Annoyingly enough, the foundation to remodel the market is already on ground.

1) Access bank built a top notch 2000 store shopping facility (ekumi shopping centre ) behind Ariaria market. As of today it has close to a 1,000 store empty-because traders refuse to move into it.

2) the 10mw aba ipp in front of A-line Ariaria is investing heavily to provide electricity to the market --(geometric power plant is still cold and now tied to the Chinese Ruyi group project.)

3) A new concrete road ( omuma road )is being built from osusu-Ariaria market .when completed,there will be two roads from main town Aba to the market.


And there isn't a shortage of investors willing to buy into the project.All the state government needs to do is to resolve there the lingering issues the have with the Ariaria market unions about shop allocation in a remodelled market (current shop holders are refusing to vacate or pay for a remodelled shop)

I'm happy they didn't allow the Chinese investor to take over.

No remodelling can happen there without full support of the owners. It's matter of the government having a tete a tete with them, without recourse to deception of being bullish.

eduj:





Funny thing is that Ngwa road market (Ahiaohuru -second biggest market in aba) is being remodelled line by line by a private investor.

Last we heard of Ariaria being remodelled was just last year. Early 2015, a Chinese investor proposed being given most of Ariaria market to rebuild into a modern multistorey open market, but the market association in Ariaria took the state government to court and it became history.
Annoyingly enough, the foundation to remodel the market is already on ground.

1) Access bank built a top notch 2000 store shopping facility (ekumi shopping centre ) behind Ariaria market. As of today it has close to a 1,000 store empty-because traders refuse to move into it.

2) the 10mw aba ipp in front of A-line Ariaria is investing heavily to provide electricity to the market --(geometric power plant is still cold and now tied to the Chinese Ruyi group project.)

3) A new concrete road ( omuma road )is being built from osusu-Ariaria market .when completed,there will be two roads from main town Aba to the market.


And there isn't a shortage of investors willing to buy into the project.All the state government needs to do is to resolve there the lingering issues the have with the Ariaria market unions about shop allocation in a remodelled market (current shop holders are refusing to vacate or pay for a remodelled shop)

You said the truth, like I mentioned earlier, the shop owners are the one holding ariaria from being rebuilt, they don't just trust the government and its partners, unless a solid arrangement or agreement is reached ariaria will still remain like that for many years to come

WhatCanIsay:


I'm happy they didn't allow the Chinese investor to take over.

No remodelling can happen there without full support of the owners. It's matter of the government having a tete a tete with them, without recourse to deception of being bullish.

Good point, but the owners should be realistic. Ariaria is bad and it's design is obsolete.it has no fire station or car park or a storage zone.
How can you expect an investor to pour billions into rebuilding Ariaria and hand over the shops back free of charge ?

The Chinese investors fleeing was bad, because the Chinese would have turned that market into a distribution hub -according to there plan