Commissioner for Environment, Beautification and Ecology, Architect Mike Okonkwo leads team to Ajasa/Ose Market to monitor compliance with the operation evacuation of unwanted dirts from the drainage.

With him are members of Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra, Traffic Management Officers, among others.

According to the Commissioner, the desilting exercise is aimed at enthronement of a healthier and more beautiful Anambra State.

ON GOING CLEAN UP @ OSE MARKET ONITSHA

I think with the appointment of the new commissioner of environment, Obiano is very serious about the state' s poor environmental situation!. Onitsha & Anambra ga adili mma!

mktinsight:

Please what do you mean by Enugu is more spread out than Onitsha and Awka combined?

investnow2013:
I think with the appointment of the new commissioner of environment, Obiano is very serious about the state' s poor environmental situation!. Onitsha & Anambra ga adili mma!

The greatest generators of waste are commercial buildings. The state needs to focus on markets, commercial areas and multi tenant buildings. Get them to pay waste fees and pay private operators to clear their rubbish.

investnow2013:
ON GOING CLEAN UP @ OSE MARKET ONITSHA

Great effort to clean up.

One hopes that all the dirt removed from the gutters onto the roads will be cleared up quickly by the environmental sanitation truck.

The usual practice is to bring dirt from the gutters to the road and then leave it there for the rains to wash them back into the gutter and everything returns to square one Africa and the way Africans operate is one of the funniest phenomena i have studied in my life.

post=67300481:

Please what do you mean by Enugu is more spread out than Onitsha and Awka combined?

Enugu city is larger geographically than Onitsha and Awka so transport costs should be higher since you are going longer distances with fewer people per trip. Anambra cities are denser. So people squeeze 18 people in a hiace meant for 12 people or 5 in a keke meant for 3. The solution for Anambra is higher capacity vehicles plying high traffic routes not lots of undersized commercial vehicles. Where planning comes in is establishing routes and scheduling not yielding to lawlessness. ANSG can get transport consultants that could do this for it cheaper than the blackheads in the ministries.

mktinsight:


Enugu city is larger geographically than Onitsha and Awka so transport costs should be higher since you are going longer distances with fewer people per trip. Anambra cities are denser. So people squeeze 18 people in a hiace meant for 12 people or 5 in a keke meant for 3. The solution for Anambra is higher capacity vehicles plying high traffic routes not lots of undersized commercial vehicles. Where planning comes in is establishing routes and scheduling not yielding to lawlessness. ANSG can get transport consultants that could do this for it cheaper than the blackheads in the ministries.

I don't want to engage in silly argument with you, you are ignorant, Onitsha metropolis is largest city in southeast, what is the population of Enugu when compare to Onitsha?

post=67302916:

I don't want to engage in silly argument with you, you are ignorant, Onitsha metropolis is largest city in southeast, what is the population of Enugu when compare to Onitsha?

He is 100% correct. Anambra state government were too myopic to open up new layouts in Onitsha and environs reason why people relocated to Asaba.
Oba old road and Nsugbe shout have been opened up long ago but our mediocre governors couldn't.

post=67302916:

I don't want to engage in silly argument with you, you are ignorant, Onitsha metropolis is largest city in southeast, what is the population of Enugu when compare to Onitsha?

Of course Onitsha is twice more populated than Enugu, Awka and Abakaliki combined. Enugu is more spread out because it has good dual carriage roads leading to the outskirts of town for a very long time. Onitsha only had the Enugu-Onitsha express way and that is why development was on that axis. The Onitsha -Owerri road was just dualized less than 10 years ago and it has helped a lot. People moved to Asaba because Onitsha became impossible to expand due to lack of major dual carriage roads away from the city.


The 33 (Trans-Nkisi) road to Umuleri needs to be dualized too ASAP. Obiano promised that during his re-election campaign. We have to see if that promise is kept. It will help decongest Onitsha and make living in the northern axis of the city a feasible option for the state. Dualization of the 33 (Trans-Nkisi) road from Onitsha to Umuleri or Aguleri will be the single greatest contribution of Obiano to the development of Anambra state.

OreMI22:


Of course Onitsha is twice more populated than Enugu, Awka and Abakaliki combined. Enugu is more spread out because it has good dual carriage roads leading to the outskirts of town for a very long time. Onitsha only had the Enugu-Onitsha express way and that is why development was on that axis. The Onitsha -Owerri road was just dualized less than 10 years ago and it has helped a lot. People moved to Asaba because Onitsha became impossible to expand due to lack of major dual carriage roads away from the city.


The 33 (Trans-Nkisi) road to Umuleri needs to be dualized too ASAP. Obiano promised that during his re-election campaign. We have to see if that promise is kept. It will help decongest Onitsha and make living in the northern axis of the city a feasible option for the state. Dualization of the 33 (Trans-Nkisi) road from Onitsha to Umuleri or Aguleri will be the single greatest contribution of Obiano to the development of Anambra state.

I wish obiano can see all this your right ups. We need dualization of all our major roads in anambra most especially in onitsha, awka and nnewi. The population in anambra state is increasing rapidly and we also need a good and modern transport system like mini train, cable train e.t.c

Stnomso:

I wish obiano can see all this your right ups. We need dualization of all our major roads in anambra most especially in onitsha, awka and nnewi. The population in anambra state is increasing rapidly and we also need a good and modern transport system like mini train, cable train e.t.c

lol at cable train

I have heard too many nonsense talk about how to build Dubai and Los Angeles in Southeast.
Truth is that those talks are either deliberately deceitful, or folks don't know a thing about how great cities evolve.

The foundation of every great city isn't necessarily building skyscrapers from day one, but adequately planning the city very well to ensure development occurs evenly and future developments can still occur without destroying the city.

Roads and use of roundabouts at every road intersection is critical. Many new African and Asian cities already know this and build new areas of their cities with lots of roundabouts to compensate for lack of power to operate traffic lights as we see in American cities.

The plan below should be adopted as a model for city expansion. By the way, this is Palmas which is the capital city of the state of Tocantins, Brazil. This is their city extension plan and you can see their generous use of roundabouts. This is how Southeast cities should plan new areas for expansion.

Demolition of illegal structures and shanties continues in Onitsha...

Today, the Taskforce led by the Honourable Commissioner for Road, Rail and Water Transportation, Hon Uchenna Okafor Wiper on foot toured the whole streets of Ajasa - New Market Road -Bright Street Main Market - Bida - Emeka Offor Section - Nottidge terminating at Egerton Street inspected the level of compliance by the general public.

The team met on ground the Chairman of Onitsha North LGA, Hon Pat Agha Mba and his enforcement unit members facilitating the inspection. Particularly around numbers 4, 5 6, some petty traders were seen displaying wares on drainages, the Commissioner safely guarded their wares and the shanties were destroyed instantly.

Mrs Nkiru Nwankwo who has a property at No 6 Ajasa in a special way appreciated the working government of His Excellency Chief Dr Willie Obiano stressing that as a landlady, she cannot park her vehicle inside her compound because of street traders. According to her, the inhabitants of Onitsha will forever remain grateful to Gov Obiano for breaking this jinx.

A clean Anambra is possible. DecongestTheRoads

Obika Chidiebele
Onitsha

ONITSHA CLEAN UP

It seems that Obiano want to do a very difficult & rewarding job in Onitsha!.....

Does onitsha even have a development master plan as awka does?

ONITSHA(AFRICANWORLD NEWSPAPER)

In the 2006 Nigerian census, Onitsha city had an estimated resident population of over half a million people, and, as of 2016, has an estimated metropolitan population of 7,425,000. The indigenous people of Onitsha are Igbo and speak the Igbo language. The Onitsha people like to be referred to as Ndi Onicha.

Onitsha, port and market town in Anambra State, Southern Nigeria, lies on the east bank of the Niger River just south of its confluence with the Anambra River.
It grew to become the political and trading centre of the small Igbo (Ibo) kingdom of Onitsha. Its monarchical system (rare among the Igbo people) was patterned after that of Benin. An Obi (“king”) negotiated in 1857 with William Balfour Baikie, a British trader, for the establishment of a British trading post in the
town.
Onitsha remains the chief entrepôt for goods coming upstream from the Niger River Delta and those transported downstream from towns on the Niger and Benue rivers.
Roads lead to the town from Enugu and Owerri, and the completion in 1965 of the 4,606-foot (1,404-metre) bridge across the Niger River to Asaba provides Onitsha with a direct road link to Benin City and Lagos.
Palm oil and kernels are the most important local exports, but yams, cassava (manioc), corn (maize), citrus fruits, palm produce, rice, taro, fish, and beef also are traded in the Onitsha market. The market building, one of the largest in Nigeria, was destroyed in 1968 in the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70), but it was rebuilt.
The town is the site of the Roman Catholic Holy Trinity Cathedral (1935) and the Anglican All Saints Cathedral (1952). Its oldest secondary schools, including the Dennis Memorial Grammar School (1925; Anglican), St. Charles Teacher Training College (1929; Roman Catholic), and Christ the King College (1933; Roman Catholic), are noted for their academic excellence.
Onitsha is also known for the annual Ofala Festival, which honours the Obi. Onitsha’s industries include tire retreading, sawmilling, printing, and soft-drink bottling. A textile plant is located on an industrial estate south of the town near the bridge.
The Onitsha people were among the first Igbos to embrace Western education, producing notable people like Dr Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria's first President, Dr Chike Obi, a renowned mathematician, Louis Mbanefo, Chief Justice of Biafra, Ben Enwonwu, famous sculpture, Ukpabi Asika, East-Central administrator after the civil war, Olisa Agbakogba, lawyer and human rights activist, and leader of Nigeria's first coup, Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna.

Anambra cities are disgusting: narrow roads, open gutters, streets trading and less oxygen in the atmosphere due to poor tree planting culture

investnow2013:
Commissioner for Environment, Beautification and Ecology, Architect Mike Okonkwo leads team to Ajasa/Ose Market to monitor compliance with the operation evacuation of unwanted dirts from the drainage.

With him are members of Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra, Traffic Management Officers, among others.

According to the Commissioner, the desilting exercise is aimed at enthronement of a healthier and more beautiful Anambra State.

When dirty is brought out from the gutters and used to litter the streets, i don't know if its a good idea at all.

I pray, and hope and plead that the rubbish brought out of these gutters be evacuated into a tipper and discharged somewhere else rather than left of the streets as eyesore.

If the rains meet these rubbish on the street, it will disperse them and make the streets even more dirty and in the absence of street sweepers, they will finally end up in the gutters again. Thus, work done = zero

We just need to BAN desilting gutters and putting the trash on the street because it is counter productive. I feel sad just watching evacuation of trash onto the street knowing that in their minds, that is the end of what they should be doing. They will NEVER return to evacuate the trash they put on the streets.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWyXAa67xRc

DawatNama:
Anambra cities are disgusting: narrow roads, open gutters, streets trading and less oxygen in the atmosphere due to poor tree planting culture

Watch your tongue there

investnow2013:
It seems that Obiano want to do a very difficult & rewarding job in Onitsha!.....

Quite difficult but very necessary, I heard traders around Ochanja had been notified already. When Ocha Brigade are done with Main market/Ose, next stop is Ochanja

AuntLaVIV:
They are still desilting. Ofcourse it will be carted away as they are being removed from the drainages. The commissioner of environment is there on ground to see that the right job is done.

That is my fervent prayer and hope.

Let those of us in Onitsha and environs please track and report this continuously so that they don't abandon these trash on the street.

In the future, we should begin a practice of bringing a trash truck so that the rubbish is directly dumped on the truck instead of using them to deface the road for a few weeks before a good Samaritan comes to evacuate them (IF WE ARE LUCKY)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3yQdX8Gd78

horsepower101:
Does onitsha even have a development master plan as awka does?

Every city is unique, when Awka was declared a capital, successive governments tried mapping out a master plan for the future city which it of course did unlike Onitsha which initially was believed to be within Onitsha North and South LGAs but since had so expanded and encompassing other towns due to the massive influx of people in recent times. This I guess caught the state government unawares and it has been trying its best to amend the situation.

Who are those guys wearing yellow. That color should be changed asap.

Afam4eva:
Who are those guys wearing yellow. That color should be changed asap.

Ocha brigade guys, dem no dey smile o.

Correct Road signs and makings should be added on our roads.