OMANBALA1:


Where are these people crawling out from and screaming Ifeanyi Uba every where. Ifeanyi Uba is not a heavyweight in Nnewi nor Anambra politics. He is wasting his money trying to muscle his way into political prominence but he will never make it.

He will contest till frustration sets in. You guys can make him president Nnewi improvement union but he will never represent Anambra people. What a joke. Obiano doesnt need Uba's campaigning for him, he (Uba) is insignificant and he knows this.

OMANBALA1:


Where are these people crawling out from and screaming Ifeanyi Uba every where. Ifeanyi Uba is not a heavyweight in Nnewi nor Anambra politics. He is wasting his money trying to muscle his way into political prominence but he will never make it.

He will contest till frustration sets in. You guys can make him president Nnewi improvement union but he will never represent Anambra people. What a joke. Obiano doesnt need Uba's campaigning for him, he (Uba) is insignificant and he knows this.

ANSMEDIA:
Reconstruction of inner streets of Fegge and Waliwo ongoing.

Handsomegod:
More like it! Kudos to Obiano for doing this. Long overdue. All Onitsha and Igbo cities littered with our gigantic multi-storey residences need are well paved streets. I also hope they will cover the gutters and also construct pedestrian walkways. Asking for green areas in the already cramped and narrow streets is asking for too much. Again,Kudos. Let him remember Awada and other areas.In my opinion,there should be a long term phase-by-phase plan to pave all inner streets in Onitsha,Awka and Nnewi. Next should be to enact a law that will mandate the landlords to repaint their houses once every 5 years at least. Most of the buildings in Eastern cities are solid and firm. Outward maintenance is the bane. Since the State water corporation is dead,at least let every building sink boreholes to provide water for the residents.

ANSMEDIA:
Reconstruction of inner streets of Fegge and Waliwo ongoing.

NonsoWow:
Anambra has abundance of boreholes. Anambra has been supplying enugu state with water via tankers for ages now.

Handsomegod:
Even sinking boreholes will have long term environmental effects on our cities in the future. The indiscriminate puncture and digging will weaken the soil structure and make it susceptible to landslides,earth movements and erosion eventually. At least,no pro-environmtal laws exits yet to regulate these things. Again,with the lack of proper sewage treatment in our cities,most of the water derived from boreholes are contaminated,unknown to our people. With the exception of state housing in Abakpa and Nkisi in onitsha,no other location I know around has a central sewage treatment facility. I may be wrong though. Advocating for boreholes is a palliative and should be a short term intervention pending when the states get their acts together to provide efficient water supply system or suburbs organise themselves in clusters to have common water plants. I know Enugu state government has a massive water plant at Ajali in Ezeagu LGA and at other locations. The World Bank water programme carried out during Sullivan Chime's regime led to remarkable improvement in providing water for the residents and that was not from Anambra state. There are also many other central locations with boreholes and water plants where Enugu people get water from. How Anambra provides water for Enugu people as declared by you is another wonder. As always,you are trying to reduce this discourse to another dick measuring contest. Smh.

ANSMEDIA:
Onitsha urban terminal-1 at Upper-Iweka has been put to use. No more parking anywhere you see on the road because OCHA brigade and ATMA are always on our roads to maintain orderliness. It is a ''park and pay'' facility. It has decent convenience and administration office. The urban terminal-2 is under construction.

ChimaAdeoye:


Boreholes may not be the best way to provide portable water, but without them, the alternative will be cholera outbreaks everywhere in Igboland. There is also NO scientific evidence that boreholes cause landslides or erosion as you claimed.

Our cities are packed with population density of European cities. Unless we figure a way to provide portable water and insist that every house must use a water closet toilet system, we would have thousands of deaths from enteric diseases especially cholera.

So while having a central sewage system and central water supply system is desirable, we know our governments are too poor to provide them. If people did not provide these facilities in their buildings, all our gutters will be filled with water proof containing human feces.

Handsomegod:
Chima I acknowledged the failure and inability of governments to provide all the water needs of the populace. As per the environmental impacts of borehole,here is a link citing some studies. I can provide more to buttress it. Please note am not against it on the short term as it is the only means to provide and sustain our people. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/water-crisis-as-borehole-becomes-ticking-timebomb/

ChimaAdeoye:


Although it is unintended, I feel somewhat insulted that you would paste even US news stories by journalists as scientific evidence.Yet, i know US journalists research their stories because there are consequences for false news. It is even more atrocious to post Nigerian journalists as scientific evidence. INEC has said cell phones prevent them from conducting free and fair elections. Now you will soon cite that as scientific evidence of factors affecting free and fair elections.

Please don't insult all of us here with that type of beer parlor talk. THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE THAT BOREHOLES CAUSE LANDSLIDES, EARTHQUAKES, EROSION ETC that you claimed.

In places with very few rainfalls per year, it is said that water wells or boreholes can make the water level to drop and make newer boreholes or wells to be dug even deeper. The other issue is the potential for diseases in very shallow wells. Even at that, southern Nigeria isn't a place with scanty rainfall like in the sahara desert.

Please learn to research topics before coming here to rubbish the forum as a bunch of uninformed folks by posting ridiculous opinions. You can research "Environmental impact of deep wells and boreholes" in West Africa, Nigeria etc. Please don't post newspaper opinions for us here.

By the way, i also heard that growing Millet, groundnuts and tomatoes predispose a country to droughts and desertification because they suck the water from the soil. Now tell me such newspaper articles are also true?

Handsomegod:
Nna! All these vitriol and covert curse words on top borehole? Haba! Iam not your candidate sir. By the way,i never mentioned any American studies neither in my original blog or preceding ones.I saw plenty boreholes located closed to soakaway pits in our cities. I saw some boreholes caving in after a heavy rainfall or after sustained usage. I saw cities without sewage treatment. These and many more will make borehole an unsustainable means of water for us in the future. We didn't disagree here so what's the beef all about? I am no environmental expert but by observation and common sense,i know the dangers these things will pose eventually. Does the fact the link I quoted was a local view automatically invalidate some of the issues they raised? Even a bad clock is right twice in a day. Please let us disagree modestly.

ChimaAdeoye:


Oga nobody is cursing you. If you know me, i don't enegage in such.

I just wanted to point out how ridiculous it is to cite Nigerian newspaper opinions for scientific evidence. Even Wikipedia may be more acceptable than Nigerian newspapers.

Anyhow, i totally agree that boreholes or wells must be at least 30 feet (10 meters) away from soakaway sewage pits. Since soakaway pits are usually behind buildings, we could make it a Public Health law in Nigeria that boreholes are sunk only in the front yard space to ensure adequate distance from the soak away pits.

mktinsight:


Every city requires a central water system and sewage system not thousands of boreholes. Common Harare, Zimbabwe has one. Yes it is expensive but what development is cheap? The Anambra state government has to partner with aid agencies and lenders to build these systems in its cities and pay it back over decades.

The best way is to do section by section of a city till everything is covered.

The question is more about whether the ANSG are ready or serious. Basic waste collection they are dismal at.

ChimaAdeoye:


I totally agree with everything you said.

Every normal city should have the government provide central water system, central sewage system, reliable and uninterrupted electricity supply, adequate waste disposal and safe tarred streets for citizens.

Is Nigeria normal?

ChimaAdeoye:


Oga nobody is cursing you. If you know me, i don't engage in such.

I just wanted to point out how ridiculous it is to cite Nigerian newspaper opinions for scientific evidence. Even Wikipedia may be more acceptable than Nigerian newspapers.

Anyhow, i totally agree that boreholes or wells must be at least 30 feet (10 meters) away from soakaway sewage pits. Since soakaway pits are usually behind buildings, we could make it a Public Health law in Nigeria that boreholes are sunk only in the front yard space to ensure adequate distance from the soak away pits.

shizzle1:
You all should be careful of this yoruba guy NonsoWow. He is not Igbo but claims to be from Anambra state. His mission is to create a divide between Anambra and our sister states in the East, by making disparaging and condescending remarks about other eastern states. His aim is to give the impression superiority claim by Anambra people to the chagrin of other states. The overall objective is for Igbos to quarrel and throw punches at each other with claims and counter claims, thereby creating a divide so as to suite their (yourba) narrative that igbos aren't united.

He fist comes off as liberal and diplomatic so you don't decipher his evil intended at the beginning, then the disparaging remarks about other states begin to creep in gradually, then you see him arguing vehemently on how Enugu are wawa pigs or ebony are fake igbos bla....bla....

Here, he is already claiming Anambra has been supplying Enugu water for ages (whatever that nonsense means), and some of you are replying him thinking it's an innocent comment, he has a motive and that how it starts. The reason there is no quarrel on that is because there are no Enugu indigens here otherwise the thread would have being derailed by now

I have warned all of you. Don't take that yoruba FOOL (NonsoWow) serious.

Some of have lived long enough on nairasand with multiple monikers, we know ourselves and know how the tricks/gimmicks works.

Be CAUTIOUS of that yorooba boy in our midst

O gwuchaa ka o'ham n'onu for now

Daalu nu!

Handsomegod
ChimaAdeoye

Obdk:



We kno he is yoruba.