Everything must not be in Enugu capital.
I am personally disappointed in Gburugburu.
He has spent four years trying to please every other part of Enugu State except Nsukka zone where he hails from.
And yet people from these other zones erroneously believe the Governor has Nsukkanized Enugu State.
Ask them to point at one single critical investment he has made in Nsukka zone, and they will direct you to Opi-Nsukka Road!
Look UGWUANYI has failed his own part of Enugu State.
I cannot imagine that Nsukka Zone that was marginalized in almost everything both by Federal and state governments are yet to get the kind of critical attention it rightly deserves even now that an Nsukka person is the governor.
I have virtually toured a greater part of the state, and I can tell you that Gburugburu has been sorely distracted from doing the very needful.
Even in his own country home Orba, he has done nothing meaningful. In his own local government headquarters, Obollo-Afor, he has done absolutely nothing critical.
I mean coating the express way with a fresh layer of tar is no critical infrastructure.
Even the little work done in Udenu was given to a useless construction company that uses wheel barrow and implements. Go to Obollo-Afor, what drives that town is largely private commerce, no government presence!
And yet Obollo-Afor, the northern gateway to the Eastern Nigeria holds tremendous potentials to becoming the economic hub of Enugu State.
Who says we cannot have our own Onitsha in Obollo-Afor?
What's difficult in creating a city out of Obollo-Afor?
The dry wharf proposed to be sited there is still largely a mirage!
I visit the site frequently and go home very sad that nothing is going on there!
We saw pictures of the one in Plateau State already completed.
Why can't there be a railway connection between Eha-Amufu and Obollo-Afor and Nsukka Town and Uzo-Uwani and then, a terminus at the bay of the River Niger somewhere in Onitsha or Anam or Nzam or Otuocha?
Why can't an entirely new city be created somewhere at the outskirts of Nsukka Town right from that Ikenga Hotels axis down to Uzo-Uwani.
Look these areas have very nice topography and vegetation and holds great potentials. A new city could be developed right there! We could call it New Nsukka or simply Asadu City.
Look, Enugu Capital is already filled to the brim and already bursting at the seams and spilling and splashing over to the adjoining areas. If a place like Obollo-Afor were in the North, it would have by now outrivalled places like Zaria, Kaduna, and even Kano!
Whatever magic that was performed in all these places to get them booming, is needed here in Obollo-Afor. The Governor should wake up now, time is going. Critical projects take time. His second term in office is just another four years. Some projects take more than four years to mature. Why has Gburugburu gone to sleep in the vainglory of officialdom.
There is work, plenty of work to do, dear Governor.
Come over to Nsukkaland, come now to Enugu North and help us. Create things that can pull a mega population of people to this part of the state. Give us our own city in Nsukka Zone. Help us now or never.
By now focus of development in the state should have been shifted to creating a new city far from the state capital to decongest Enugu City.
After decades of neglect, Nsukka Zone now also endures neglect even when Gburugbu is the Governor.

The little projects he has done here are more of female projects. Figuratively speaking, they are feminine and passive, quite cosmetic and fickle !
We want masculine projects.
We long for aggressive, strong and enduring mega projects.
Things that will turn the lives of the people for good.
Projects that have the capacity to draw a mega population to this side!
We want railways.
We want cargo airports.
We want alternative urban hubs.
We want dry wharfs.
We want industrial layouts.
We want specialist hospitals.
We want manufacturing and assembly plants of all kinds.
Why must they all be in Enugu capital and Ninth Mile Corner?
We want all these things, things that push up life, and even more!
Someone tell Gburugburu that time is going.
Someone tell him that he is squandering a great opportunity already.
Repeat; time is going.
Again; time is going!
Someone tell him to stop looking at faces and pandering to all kinds of interests.
Enough of "eshua ga na azu" ideology.
Enough of "nrashi" jamboree!
Someone tell him to stop awarding contracts to contractors who have no history of competence.
Someone tell him to device an effective mechanism of project monitoring.
Enugu State is being robbed daily by contractors who deliver very poor output at project sites.
Just look at Orba-Obollo-Afor Road, it is already failing in less than three years!
Someone tell him that so much is expected of him.
Tell him to ignore his praise singers and buckle down to business.
Tell him to forget their sugar-coated worship and think more of the verdict of history !
Nsukkaland is desolate. She is naked.
And needs to be clothed with mega infrastructure.
Enough said already.

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It is so sad but I believe he will do the needful in the second term.

He will not do anything. He is not known as an achiever...more of a bribe-and-pass guy

Ugwuoke347:
Everything must not be in Enugu capital.
I am personally disappointed in Gburugburu.
He has spent four years trying to please every other part of Enugu State except Nsukka zone where he hails from.
And yet people from these other zones erroneously believe the Governor has Nsukkanized Enugu State.
Ask them to point at one single critical investment he has made in Nsukka zone, and they will direct you to Opi-Nsukka Road!
Look UGWUANYI has failed his own part of Enugu State.
I cannot imagine that Nsukka Zone that was marginalized in almost everything both by Federal and state governments are yet to get the kind of critical attention it rightly deserves even now that an Nsukka person is the governor.
I have virtually toured a greater part of the state, and I can tell you that Gburugburu has been sorely distracted from doing the very needful.
Even in his own country home Orba, he has done nothing meaningful. In his own local government headquarters, Obollo-Afor, he has done absolutely nothing critical.
I mean coating the express way with a fresh layer of tar is no critical infrastructure.
Even the little work done in Udenu was given to a useless construction company that uses wheel barrow and implements. Go to Obollo-Afor, what drives that town is largely private commerce, no government presence!
And yet Obollo-Afor, the northern gateway to the Eastern Nigeria holds tremendous potentials to becoming the economic hub of Enugu State.
Who says we cannot have our own Onitsha in Obollo-Afor?
What's difficult in creating a city out of Obollo-Afor?
The dry wharf proposed to be sited there is still largely a mirage!
I visit the site frequently and go home very sad that nothing is going on there!
We saw pictures of the one in Plateau State already completed.
Why can't there be a railway connection between Eha-Amufu and Obollo-Afor and Nsukka Town and Uzo-Uwani and then, a terminus at the bay of the River Niger somewhere in Onitsha or Anam or Nzam or Otuocha?
Why can't an entirely new city be created somewhere at the outskirts of Nsukka Town right from that Ikenga Hotels axis down to Uzo-Uwani.
Look these areas have very nice topography and vegetation and holds great potentials. A new city could be developed right there! We could call it New Nsukka or simply Asadu City.
Look, Enugu Capital is already filled to the brim and already bursting at the seams and spilling and splashing over to the adjoining areas. If a place like Obollo-Afor were in the North, it would have by now outrivalled places like Zaria, Kaduna, and even Kano!
Whatever magic that was performed in all these places to get them booming, is needed here in Obollo-Afor. The Governor should wake up now, time is going. Critical projects take time. His second term in office is just another four years. Some projects take more than four years to mature. Why has Gburugburu gone to sleep in the vainglory officialdom.
There is work, plenty of work to do, dear Governor.
Come over to Nsukkaland, come now to Enugu North and help us. Create things that can pull a mega population of people to this part of the state. Give us our own city in Nsukka Zone. Help us now or never.
By now focus of development in the state should have been shifted to creating a new city far from the state capital to decongest Enugu City.
After decades of neglect, Nsukka Zone now also endures neglect even when Gburugbu is the Governor.

He will not do anything

Chikpat:


He will not do anything

He will do great things.
Let's be positive about that.
I believe Gburugburu means well.
He will definitely perform better this time.
He owes that to himself.
He owes that to his name.
It is time to be dead serious with the hard tasks of infrastructural development.
There can be no excuses.
Expectations are very high now.
And he must toughen up and get those working for him to get going in getting things done!
I repeat: expectations are astronomically high!

We have seem the volume of work done in Ebonyi State by Dave Umahi, and we are hoping to see an explosion of construction and mega civil engineering all around us, far and above what has been wrought in Ebonyi by their State Government.

Ugwuoke347:




He will do great things.
Let's be positive about that.
I believe Gburugburu means well.
He will definitely perform better this time.
He owes that to himself.
He owes that to his name.
It is time to be dead serious with the hard facts of infrastructural development.
There can be no excuses.
Expectations are very high now.
And he must toughen up and get those working for him to get going in getting things done!
I repeat: expectations are astronomically high!

We have seem the volume of work done in Ebonyi State by Dave Umahi, and we are hoping to see an explosion of construction and mega civil engineering all around us, far and above what has been wrought in Ebonyi by their State Government.

You dont know the guy. He is not famous for doing projects...just popular for buying his way through....
He will not do anything

Chikpat:



You dont know the guy. He is not famous for doing projects...just popular for buying his way through....
He will not do anything

You have some points there.
However, he has no need for "bribe-and-pass" any more.
He has passed the post already!
What else could stop him from pursuing massive projects
with resolute aggression?

History will be harsh and severe on him
if he trifles away this great opportunity.

I personally feel he has better plans this time.
I hope to see earth movers, demags, and steel monsters of all kinds and functions
roaring and tearing down,
building up and levelling up,
making things good and
changing the shape and face of our environment for good and for real !
We want to see a Gburugburu who speaks only the language of construction! Mega construction! Just like, or even better than Dave Umahi.
That is a huge possibility.

Ugwuoke347:





You have some points there.
However, he has no need for "bribe-and-pass" any more.
He has passed the post already!
What else could stop him from pursuing massive projects
with resolute aggression?

History will be harsh and severe on him
if he trifles away this great opportunity.

I personally feel he has better plans this time.
I hope to see earth movers, demags, and steel monsters of all kinds and functions
roaring and tearing down,
building up and levelling up,
making things good and
changing the shape and face of our environment for good and for real !
We want to see a Gburugburu who speaks only the language of construction! Mega construction! Just like, or even better than Dave Umahi.
That is a huge possibility.

I can understand how you feel. A guy your kind should be part of the politics. You have a sound mind and you are better than the mofos working with the guy.
You see in South East, Dave Umahi is matchless
You self you no try to dey compare Ugwanyi and Umahi....like comparing ede with fried rice. The guy stayed 12yrs in the HoR with nothing to show on ground. He will not do anything. He will buy history and people will be praising him for doing nothing

Chikpat:


I can understand how you feel. A guy your kind should be part of the politics. You have a sound mind and you are better than the mofos working with the guy.
You see in South East, Dave Umahi is matchless
You self you no try to dey compare Ugwanyi and Umahi....like comparing ede with fried rice. The guy stayed 12yrs in the HoR with nothing to show on ground. He will not do anything. He will buy history and people will be praising him for doing nothing

I am afraid of the part, "He will buy history and people will be praising him for doing nothing".
Unfortunately, that is a regrettable possibility this side of the globe.
But then, which sane man would rather buy history with the same resources useful enough to permanently earn him a golden place in history?

I want to believe these politicians are not completely thoughtless.






Thanks a bunch for the commendation.
I am only a concerned human person.
I have no self interest in these things.
My concern is hinged upon my firm belief in goodness.

Ugwuoke347:





I am afraid of the part, "He will buy history and people will be praising him for doing nothing".
Unfortunately, that is a regrettable possibility this side of the globe.
But then, which sane man would rather buy history with the same resources useful enough to permanently earn him a golden place in history?

I want to believe these politicians are not completely thoughtless.






Thanks a bunch for the commendation.
I am only a concerned human person.
I have no self interest in these things.
My concern is hinged upon my firm belief in goodness.

If all concerned human beings reason like you, Nigeria will be a better place for all. If you can articulate development like you did in the original narrative, it will be a disservice to your people if you do not play active roles in improving their values, their infrastructure, their governance and ultimately their humanity.

Chikpat:


If all concerned human beings reason like you, Nigeria will be a better place for all. If you can articulate development like you did in the original narrative, it will be a disservice to your people if you do not play active roles in proving their values, their infrastructure, their governance and ultimately their humanity.

Wow!
I am touched by those words.
I feel humbled by your estimation of my person.
I must still say that my intention for writing is in service of the Greater Good.
Thanks again for your inspiring inputs.
Stay blessed.

Ugwuoke347:








Wow!
I am touched by those words.
I feel humbled by your estimation of my person.
I must still say that my intention for writing is in service of the Greater Good.
Thanks again for your inspiring inputs.
Stay blessed.

The aim is not to "touch" you but to "move" you into necessary action(s).

Chikpat:



The aim is not to "touch" you but to "move" you into necessary action(s).

What can a person like me do?
I do not wear my shoes in the corridors of power.
I have got no long legs.
What action can I possibly take right from my ken?
How do I proceed?
I have no means of actually taking "action".
I can only take actions in my private sphere where things are firmly under my control.

Nevertheless, I understand your thrust very well.
I must say now that you have got me thinking seriously about taking ACTION beyond my private environment.
I am still trying to figure out the right forms the action will take.
But then, my experience has taught me that when you are not in a position of authority, you cannot actually make a head way.
I have actually tried some things within a small environment.
I was met with sabotage and stiff resistance by the same people I meant to help!
I then felt that it is not right to impose help on others.
Help must be earnestly asked for by those in need of it.

I am still thinking.