Okocha101:

In this time and age, Governor Nyesom Wike celebrates miniature projects as though they were mega infrastructural strides of the 21st century. If the Governor of oil-rich Rivers State, with a population of over six million people, pops champagne at the construction of a leisure park and a small artificial lake along Aba Road, Port Harcourt, what then will local governments and communities celebrate?

At a time when cities world over are achieving major infrastructural breakthroughs, it breaks my heart to see that we are still dancing 'azonto for simple aesthetical works. This administration has received billions and billions of naira for two years now, yet, all it can really boast of are just routine road maintenance jobs (inside some parts of Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor LGA), flagging off of fathom projects just before elections, hosting of everyday social events, dirty media fights, et al.

It is not easy to dream, it's even harder to dream big. The vision of Rivers State, is too big for a man whose main preoccupation in life is political power. Wike cannot see River State beyond PH and Obio/Akpor. No, he can't! And That is the reason why the Greater Port Harcourt City Project has been completely abandoned; Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA) crippled; Monorail Project abandoned; Songhai Farm, Banana Farms, Fish Farms, have been either destroyed or helplessly deserted, the list goes on and on.

Since the State is a subdivision of a nation or a federated political entity, it then follows that developmental projects in the State must be tailored along national thinking. Rivers State cannot be operating like a local government area in Nigeria! A Governor that has woefully failed in his primary responsibility of securing lives and properties in the State, is only daydreaming, if he thinks that a leisure park or a small artificial lake, situated in just one LGA, can becloud the rising tide of insecurity and hopelessness in the land.

In terms of the provision of basic amenities, Governor Wike has not shown capacity at all, as per what his responsibilities really are. Take power supply for example, since his inception, Wike has not in anyway complemented the efforts of the federal government in that area. No one hears about rural electrification from the mouth of the governor, save political rhetorics and wild vituperations aimed at perceived political opponents. Wike does care whether that young family somewhere in a remote village, is suffering in perpetual darkness or not; no, he is the Governor of Port Harcourt, or if you like, Obio/Akpor LGA.

The standard of education has been on a steady decline since Wike became Governor. While the Governor is spending billions renovating few schools in PH and Obio/Akpor, hundreds of model primary and secondary schools built by the former administration, in the remaining 21 LGAs, are rotting away in massive dilapidation. Free and compulsory education is no more, as Governor Wike has reintroduced tuition fees and levies in our primary schools. Scholarships have been unceremoniously withdrawn at the behest of the Governor, forcing our children to become refugees abroad. Education is suffering terribly under Wike.

Healthcare in Rivers State, can be equated to what is obtainable in war-torn countries. Recently, three pre-term babies suffocated and died inside incubators in the State-owned Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMSH), due to lack of power supply and the absence of emergency staff at night. Primary Health Centers all over the State, have been reduced to nothing, thereby escalating the already high rate of mother and child mortality. The task of providing quality and affordable healthcare is one which no responsible government should ever toy with, but that is not the case here; healthcare is in ruins in Rivers State.

While the natural environment in Rivers State is groaningly dying from unchecked toxic pollution, the business environment is equally drowning in the sea of insecurity, multiple taxation, and decrepit infrastructure. The black soot that is hovering over Rivers State, can be likened to the darkness that has pervaded the length and breadth of the business community in the State. How bad does it get? Kidnapping, killings, incessant robberies and orgies of violence, have overrun the once blosoming garden city. All thanks to Wike!

Revenue generation is at its worst ebb since the creation of Rivers State. Today, apart from falling monthly federal allocations coming to the State, the oil hub of Nigeria, gets paltry sums as internally generated revenue monthly. During his last media chat, Governor Wike was seen boasting of how the State makes six billion naira or so every month as IGR. I am not sure that the governor is aware of States like Lagos, that rakes in over thirty billion as IGR monthly. Wike should go and learn from them on how not to govern a State like an LGA.

N.B: Rivers State under Wike, neither has a developmental blueprint, nor a budget.

- Solomon Okocha

Okocha101:

In this time and age, Governor Nyesom Wike celebrates miniature projects as though they were mega infrastructural strides of the 21st century. If the Governor of oil-rich Rivers State, with a population of over six million people, pops champagne at the construction of a leisure park and a small artificial lake along Aba Road, Port Harcourt, what then will local governments and communities celebrate?

At a time when cities world over are achieving major infrastructural breakthroughs, it breaks my heart to see that we are still dancing 'azonto for simple aesthetical works. This administration has received billions and billions of naira for two years now, yet, all it can really boast of are just routine road maintenance jobs (inside some parts of Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor LGA), flagging off of fathom projects just before elections, hosting of everyday social events, dirty media fights, et al.

It is not easy to dream, it's even harder to dream big. The vision of Rivers State, is too big for a man whose main preoccupation in life is political power. Wike cannot see River State beyond PH and Obio/Akpor. No, he can't! And That is the reason why the Greater Port Harcourt City Project has been completely abandoned; Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA) crippled; Monorail Project abandoned; Songhai Farm, Banana Farms, Fish Farms, have been either destroyed or helplessly deserted, the list goes on and on.

Since the State is a subdivision of a nation or a federated political entity, it then follows that developmental projects in the State must be tailored along national thinking. Rivers State cannot be operating like a local government area in Nigeria! A Governor that has woefully failed in his primary responsibility of securing lives and properties in the State, is only daydreaming, if he thinks that a leisure park or a small artificial lake, situated in just one LGA, can becloud the rising tide of insecurity and hopelessness in the land.

In terms of the provision of basic amenities, Governor Wike has not shown capacity at all, as per what his responsibilities really are. Take power supply for example, since his inception, Wike has not in anyway complemented the efforts of the federal government in that area. No one hears about rural electrification from the mouth of the governor, save political rhetorics and wild vituperations aimed at perceived political opponents. Wike does care whether that young family somewhere in a remote village, is suffering in perpetual darkness or not; no, he is the Governor of Port Harcourt, or if you like, Obio/Akpor LGA.

The standard of education has been on a steady decline since Wike became Governor. While the Governor is spending billions renovating few schools in PH and Obio/Akpor, hundreds of model primary and secondary schools built by the former administration, in the remaining 21 LGAs, are rotting away in massive dilapidation. Free and compulsory education is no more, as Governor Wike has reintroduced tuition fees and levies in our primary schools. Scholarships have been unceremoniously withdrawn at the behest of the Governor, forcing our children to become refugees abroad. Education is suffering terribly under Wike.

Healthcare in Rivers State, can be equated to what is obtainable in war-torn countries. Recently, three pre-term babies suffocated and died inside incubators in the State-owned Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMSH), due to lack of power supply and the absence of emergency staff at night. Primary Health Centers all over the State, have been reduced to nothing, thereby escalating the already high rate of mother and child mortality. The task of providing quality and affordable healthcare is one which no responsible government should ever toy with, but that is not the case here; healthcare is in ruins in Rivers State.

While the natural environment in Rivers State is groaningly dying from unchecked toxic pollution, the business environment is equally drowning in the sea of insecurity, multiple taxation, and decrepit infrastructure. The black soot that is hovering over Rivers State, can be likened to the darkness that has pervaded the length and breadth of the business community in the State. How bad does it get? Kidnapping, killings, incessant robberies and orgies of violence, have overrun the once blosoming garden city. All thanks to Wike!

Revenue generation is at its worst ebb since the creation of Rivers State. Today, apart from falling monthly federal allocations coming to the State, the oil hub of Nigeria, gets paltry sums as internally generated revenue monthly. During his last media chat, Governor Wike was seen boasting of how the State makes six billion naira or so every month as IGR. I am not sure that the governor is aware of States like Lagos, that rakes in over thirty billion as IGR monthly. Wike should go and learn from them on how not to govern a State like an LGA.

N.B: Rivers State under Wike, neither has a developmental blueprint, nor a budget.

thank you brother

- Solomon Okocha

Lifestone:
I thought somebody is going to disprove what the OP said rather than insulting him.

Lifestone:
I thought somebody is going to disprove what the OP said rather than insulting him.

gare:


It is not all about insult, we know what this article is all about, Wike is doing the best he can, how many of Wike aids doing see buying or spending money like it was during Ameachi's tdime, none.

They should allow Wike to work than distract him, when last did you hear the voices of APC chairman in the state or it's spokesman, they all have nothing to say because Wike has overwhelmed them.

So guy just leave Wike alone and focus on your destiny.

Lifestone:
I thought somebody is going to disprove what the OP said rather than insulting him.

Lifestone:

I am not from River State and not interested in the local politics, what I support is for citizens to hold their leaders accountable. He has listed what he claimed to be the failures of Wike, if you think he is lying, disprove him point for point and list the achievements of Wike, shikena rather than been abusive and insulting.

gare:


You need to come to Rivers State to see for yourself or else you stop commenting on issues you know nothing about, if not for your one track mind why would believe him and be looking for someone to disprove him

gare:


It is not all about insult, we know what this article is all about, Wike is doing the best he can, how many of Wike aids doing see buying or spending money like it was during Ameachi's time, none.

They should allow Wike to work than distract him, when last did you hear the voices of APC chairman in the state or it's spokesman, they all have nothing to say because Wike has overwhelmed them.

So guy just leave Wike alone and focus on your destiny.

frankmoney:
wike has done nothing , all he does is patch a few potholes and come out and start acting like he constructed something magnificent a typical example is woji road

Lifestone:

But you've got an opportunity to enlighten me and others like me who may not be in River State soon.

frankmoney:
wike has done nothing , all he does is patch a few potholes and come out and start acting like he constructed something magnificent a typical example is woji road

Lifestone:

But you've got an opportunity to enlighten me and others like me who may not be in River State soon.

gare:


Since you don't intend to come to Rivers State soon, then forget about issues concerning Rivers State, what is currently happening in ikorodu by the badoo boys is worse than what happens In Rivers State but nobody seems to talk much about it because an APC state, nobody has called for a state of emergency in Lagos, nobody has called for Ambode head on a spike, you can see all this write up are all political

gare:


Since you don't intend to come to Rivers State soon, then forget about issues concerning Rivers State, what is currently happening in ikorodu by the badoo boys is worse than what happens In Rivers State but nobody seems to talk much about it because an APC state, nobody has called for a state of emergency in Lagos, nobody has called for Ambode head on a spike, you can see all this write up are all political

NextGovernor:


Go and sitdown my friend.

Construction of
Elelenwo - Akpajo Road (Dualization)
Garrison - Slaughter Road (Dualization)
Akpajo - Woji Bridge
Slaughter - Woji - Elelenwo bridge
Bori road Dualization

These projects are around me and road I ply always. So there are many others I don't even know. I am talking from "I saw" not "I hear".

Give me one achievement of Buhari for the same 2 years as Wike.

gare:


You mean to tell me he patched Woji road? Are you even in port Harcourt? What about Elelewon that is being worked by Julius Never as we speak is also patching? Obiri Ikwere road to Airport that was abandoned by Ameachi that he completed was also patching, Igbo eteche road was also patching, my friend wake up

blackbriar:



I WILL GIVE YOU 5K,IF YOU CAN ENETER OMOKU IN BROAD DAY LIGHT AND COME BACK UNSCATHED.

blackbriar:



I WILL GIVE YOU 5K,IF YOU CAN ENETER OMOKU IN BROAD DAY LIGHT AND COME BACK UNSCATHED.

Okocha101:


Give us counter facts and quit the insults.

Insult is a symptom of mental weakness.

You can make your point without spewing invectives at yourself.

I insist, Wike is governing Rivers State like an LGA!!!

Then take him to court, since you insist, APC rats

frankmoney:
he patched it and I can tell you the exact spots , I stay in woji , I can tell you the particular spots he patched and threw a party like he constructed a new road , Wike has tried but ya'll should stop acting like he has done a great job in terms of construction

gare:


Ok since you STAY in Woji name the exact spot that he patched at least it should have a name, you're only concern about Woji road, which is not the only road In Port Harcourt.