HOW OUK UNDERDEVELOPED ABIA STATE
Ordinarily, I would have wished OUK well in his self appointed political exile. I had thought he was genuinely resting so that the generation he caused so much pain would have passed away before he could think of inundating us with the decision to RETURN.
OUK was in the saddle in Abi
a State for eight
years and his only achievement was he sustained a long – drawn battle with OBJ.
In his mind, that made him a super champion and self appointed Igbo
leader.
Few weeks after he was sworn in, he took off in break neck speed. Little did Abians know that he was set to hoodwink them. He did and successfully too, otherwise he would not be thinking of returning to politics in a State he labored so much to under develop.
For those who brand FRANKIE JAMES an alarmist and wet blanket, these are my reasons:
1. All the roads OUK did in Aba collapsed after four months. Ask people who lived in Cemetry ( he selfishly renamed it Orji Uzor kalu Road), Osusu, Omuma and Umule.
2. If he truly constructed roads, Aba would not be complaining of poor and dilapidated roads just a week after he left office. That was not what happened to Aka Road in Uyo done by Obong Victor Attah.
3. While Chimaraoke Nnamani was busy transforming Park Lane to a world class tertiary health facility, OUK killed ABSUTH as workers were once owed eleven months arrears of salaries. It was the period his ODIUKO mother ordered the keys to the hospital be returned to her as the workers could go to hell for all she cares.
4. While Achike was building the gigantic workers Secretariat in new owerri, OUK was constructing his CAMP NEYA country home at Igberre. That structure at the time was being maintained by over fifty paid staff. This people were paid from the Government House.
5. Ibori with all his thievery status was still able to build a world class Stadium in Delta State while OUK, even with all the millions of dollars he got through Enyimba only managed to facelift the Township Stadium at Aba. OUK shamelessly tagged that rag tag arrangement an INTERNATIONAL STADIUM.
6. Sam Egwu did so well to make Abakliki look like a Capital. That was at a time when the only structure Umuahia had was the poorly constructed Okpara Auditorium which OUK inherited.
7. OUK lived in a rented Govt. House for eight years and never thought it good to find a befitting and sound structure called a Government House. I am sure few Abians know that the Govt. House where he lived is owned largely by the Omeruahs and their neighbors
8. It was during his regime that shops were littered everywhere in Ariaria thus distorting the once well laid out market. It was build twenty, take ten and give ODIUKO ten. Today, erosion threatens to annihilate traders and residents around the market. From 1999 – 2007, it was widely believed (and that is true) that more shops were erected than there were in the market’s over thirty years existence before then.
9. This is the same thing he did in Abia Poly, causing his Igbere kinsmen to be employed more than the institution’s lean resources could carry. What was the need of taking the glory for employment that you could not honestly fund? Which AbiaPoly did he build? Abia still remains the only State in the South East with one Federal Higher Institution. That was the standard OUK set.
Abia just started afresh because OUK wasted twelve solid years (yes twelve because he held the State under his firm grip until July 2010). I belive this because it was after July 2010, that Umuahia started looking like a State Capital. For those who think he succeeded with Enyimba, they should ask what Enyimba did with all that money. No stadium, no corporate office, no office accommodation and unfortunately no bank account. What manner of achievement is that?
Let OUK allow sufficient time for the injury he caused us to heal. I beg him in the name of anything he holds scared.
Few weeks after he was sworn in, he took off in break neck speed. Little did Abians know that he was set to hoodwink them. He did and successfully too, otherwise he would not be thinking of returning to politics in a State he labored so much to under develop.
For those who brand FRANKIE JAMES an alarmist and wet blanket, these are my reasons:
1. All the roads OUK did in Aba collapsed after four months. Ask people who lived in Cemetry ( he selfishly renamed it Orji Uzor kalu Road), Osusu, Omuma and Umule.
2. If he truly constructed roads, Aba would not be complaining of poor and dilapidated roads just a week after he left office. That was not what happened to Aka Road in Uyo done by Obong Victor Attah.
3. While Chimaraoke Nnamani was busy transforming Park Lane to a world class tertiary health facility, OUK killed ABSUTH as workers were once owed eleven months arrears of salaries. It was the period his ODIUKO mother ordered the keys to the hospital be returned to her as the workers could go to hell for all she cares.
4. While Achike was building the gigantic workers Secretariat in new owerri, OUK was constructing his CAMP NEYA country home at Igberre. That structure at the time was being maintained by over fifty paid staff. This people were paid from the Government House.
5. Ibori with all his thievery status was still able to build a world class Stadium in Delta State while OUK, even with all the millions of dollars he got through Enyimba only managed to facelift the Township Stadium at Aba. OUK shamelessly tagged that rag tag arrangement an INTERNATIONAL STADIUM.
6. Sam Egwu did so well to make Abakliki look like a Capital. That was at a time when the only structure Umuahia had was the poorly constructed Okpara Auditorium which OUK inherited.
7. OUK lived in a rented Govt. House for eight years and never thought it good to find a befitting and sound structure called a Government House. I am sure few Abians know that the Govt. House where he lived is owned largely by the Omeruahs and their neighbors
8. It was during his regime that shops were littered everywhere in Ariaria thus distorting the once well laid out market. It was build twenty, take ten and give ODIUKO ten. Today, erosion threatens to annihilate traders and residents around the market. From 1999 – 2007, it was widely believed (and that is true) that more shops were erected than there were in the market’s over thirty years existence before then.
9. This is the same thing he did in Abia Poly, causing his Igbere kinsmen to be employed more than the institution’s lean resources could carry. What was the need of taking the glory for employment that you could not honestly fund? Which AbiaPoly did he build? Abia still remains the only State in the South East with one Federal Higher Institution. That was the standard OUK set.
Abia just started afresh because OUK wasted twelve solid years (yes twelve because he held the State under his firm grip until July 2010). I belive this because it was after July 2010, that Umuahia started looking like a State Capital. For those who think he succeeded with Enyimba, they should ask what Enyimba did with all that money. No stadium, no corporate office, no office accommodation and unfortunately no bank account. What manner of achievement is that?
Let OUK allow sufficient time for the injury he caused us to heal. I beg him in the name of anything he holds scared.
