Good video coverage. Though long n audio low. Akwa is developing n have a lot of potentials. Govt should have master city plan to avoid demolition after building is completed
I'm from Anambra and also a graduate of unizik, but I've always wonder why they've always ignored development in awka , Obiano was the only governor that tried a little . Seeing the state of road in ifite is still bad after 11 years I left there is heartbreaking, sanitation and proper marking of roads is also an issue . We need to do better ! 💔
Sorry to ask, I grew up in owerri and port harcourt, but one thing I noticed is that the earth colour in anambra is very red unlike imo state yet they are all in south east. The red earth makes the place look very dirty. They can do more road sweeping at least
@@desmondnedualaegbu5526 yea orlu cos it’s close to anambra, the red mud makes everywhere dirty. We ain’t fighting pls . Anambra ppl with ego and nothing to show for it. I’m neither anambra nor imo . Stay blessed
Thanks so much, your video is even the best of all I've seen about Awka, though maybe because you really brought out time to do it for us, thanks again all the informations you gave to us are very correct and educative, I got a plus for Willy Obiano at least for construction of those 3 flyovers, Airport's Runway and Control Tower. About Awka becoming the Capital of Anambra State, you said that Capital was moved down from Enugwu to Awka, it's not truth Enugwu still remains a State Capital but for Enugwu State which is the Old Anambra State while Awka because the Capital of the New Anambra State, Enugwu did not get 30 million Naira from Federal government but Anambra State got as a New State back then in 1991 ( Now We Have To Ask Okwadike Igbo Ukwu What He Did With The Money from 1991 to 1993 ) May The Almighty God bless you and give you more strength to give us even the bests of more videos as this. From me from here in Hoogeveen of Netherland, dalu rinne.
Don, this is the spirit behind our videos. Some will just condemn the city in its entirety. The point was just to understand that Awka became the capital city of the new Anambra state.
Thank you yangalife for the impressive tour of Awka my village capital of Anambra state. I can see the seriousness of Gov. Soludo with seven contractors gearing up Awka New City.🎉😂❤
Awka is growing and developing gradually and synergy from all of us will force the government to continue to poriotise the development infrastructures in so many areas of the city just like Lagos is being forced by the people oriented programs.
Awka is very small that I don’t see why all the Roads will not be tarred , sanitation done properly, beautification of the town with trees, and basic amenities.
I see your point. And good to know that the video was done shortly after end of month environmental sanitation. Some of the refused is yet to be packed. On roads, the city needs improve public infrastructures like better standard roads, more organized water management system, with better aesthetics.
You think so? That awka and sub is small did know how large is awka alone and other towns around awka, if you put all these together and also put the rate igbos is developing by individuals you will know that government cannot content with both roads construction and at the same time carry on with other developmental of the state, as for what I expected from soludo and other south east governors to do is any structure they are doing let it be standard like roads should be tarred to edge gutters and be covered even if it is one in your whole tenure should standard, if ebonyi state can do it I wonder why other state in south east cannot do it. Every single project in ebonyi is standard
Thanks so much from you chinedu.i vividly requested this video. But what I can see is a beutifull city that is neglected by govt as usual. One thing I observed about Anambra cities is dirty and unplanned system of roads. Is not different from what other cities look like,no road in entire Anambra state is free from dirts and red sand on top the roads,that u ll even find it difficult to differentiate old road and a newly constructed road,when I heard the presenter said a newly constructed road,I was expecting a good marked roads that is free from dirts and sands on it.but it's a usual thing. Let's use this video to draw the attention of govt incharge that this city is not clean to be called a capital city and to even compare it to some villages in Anambra state . Very beautiful city Awka, but needs a quick govt attention.
Which one is awka city? The roads are quite narrow, they should try and upgrade the roads, with the kind of money people from this state have, is not impressive
@@YangaLife it speaks for itself. Open drainage, dusty on road sides n edges, no side walks, shanty shops everywhere, flies on the table at meat market etc… this is the home of the so called wise people (Igbos)
Iyke, it is a matter of paving all roads and bad ones repaired with everyday sweeping including sweeping off the sands. Then the red sands with disappear.
@@YangaLife , talk talk solution can buy sweeper trucks now to start sweeping major roads daily as he is constructing roads , why wait? Those sweeper trucks are giant vacuum cleaners on wheels. Infact, I will make a video for you once I see them on my way to work. We have to exchange phone numbers , email?
@@desmondnedualaegbu5526Owerri doesn’t have red mud . The colour of earth sand in owerri is whitish to brown. Not red like anambra, it makes everywhere dirty
Until the day I see Julius Berger constructing roads in Anambra before I take the government of the day very serious. Till then , all na eye service and hype.
Let's keep Hope's alive. If not I would have love the present administration to atleast engage JB in some few important roads before they will leave Anambra.
Good morning Nedu! Just had time to watch the video. Once again well done my brother! It’s worrying aesthetics don’t matter to our people, ifite road is a major road yet it still looks a mess. If soludo really wants to work, he must redesign that road and construct with all road components. Those small shops and markets lined up on both sides must go!
U O, your contributions are nice. As regards roads like I use to say, all MAJOR roads are supposed to be re-awarded to a good company like Berger in our three major cities. Subject to availability of funds. They can start gradually and not all at once. Minor roads given to good local contractors.
@@desmondnedualaegbu5526, take a picture of what the road looks like now and when it’s finished! If he can’t relocate all those shanty looking shops and replace with underground drainage systems and pedestrian walkways plus green areas, I give up .
Exactly, just that some areas in Africa has more challenges than some. Neat city is non-negotiable to the existence of humanity. Hope to subdue that challenge in near future.
Which city in nigeria well planned? Pls praise efforts of Igbos which city in nigeria can you compare with cities in igboland in terms of buildings? Though I know we don’t have good roads which governors and federal government is supposed to be providing
Government need to step up for their responsibilities especially in terms of modernism the city with a good design roads and all this shanties should remove, but one thing i like is Awka is fast developing and their is publicity, please i will like to know how A.M.C and Dubai estate how development is going there.
Anambra state government should emulate the out going govenor of Ebonyi State in terms of Road construction and beautification. The good thing is that they have high buildings. Also they should embark on building repainting as well.
GOD forbid ebonyi as yardstick for Anambra to develop! We can’t settle for less , we want world class standards like cities in Europe that have merged history with the future. Onitsha reminds me of Madrid a lot , solution should go there and see how that old city looks today.
Why do Igbo lands have roads with open gutters all over the place? Those open gutters would have been used for pedestrian walkways while proper underground drainage systems are put in place. All signs of failed governments and proper planning.
@@YangaLife some many things the style of infrastructure like roads just look at the kind of roads in Awka 75% of roads in Awka is supposed to be dual carriage roads but they still give contracts to build roads and still maintain the old style of single carriage road population is increasing daily and it needs to be plans for the future. How many roads in Awka have walkways or how many flyovers is been constructed in places where there is a lot of roads joining together just take Ebonyi state as a case study.
@@desmondnedualaegbu5526 😂😂😂😂😂hide your face brother what will you now say about Ebonyi State that has twenty four flyovers 😂🤣🤣 that's just under the space of eight years Mr David umahi the current Governor transformed the state to five star state.
Thanks for the video. Given that some of our people lives outside Igboland, some Nigerians don't believe that we have a thriving homeland. My advice to our governor is that he should make Anambra state better. I understand that Abakliki ( pardon my spelling) has been changed to club road.
Thank you very much. Anambra government should provide the necessary infrastructure and security, our people will do the rest. We have enormous capacity as a people.
Nwanya, the best thing would have been to invite good Construction company like Julius Berger to work on major roads and then leave the other link roads to smaller good companies.
If I may advice the state governor atleast 50% of money budgeted in infrastructural development should go to Awka . What I noticed govt does in any previous administration was that they neglect Awka and concentrate in other towns and villages where they will get votes for the next election and forgot that awka is state capital. That’s why upto this moment there is no government house in awka . Only state In Nigeria without govt house .
@@desmondnedualaegbu5526 Mr man I have been to other states that how I know that my state Anambra is a mess it's not about having money it's about city planning.
Well done, bro, for showing these cities as they really are with no frills. I understand that many people want to see these cities as they really are. However, I expected you to mix things up a little bit albeit with a little more emphasis on the new rather than the old for the simple reason that Awka is a relatively new state capital. Unfortunately most of the graphics depicts a rundown, dilapidated structures all over, dotting dirty, rickety roads that hardly do justice to the status of a state capital.l in this day and age. I'm sorry to say but what you're showing the world is just a little better than a glorified village. You mentioned new flyovers built to ease traffic congestion but wouldn't show them to viewers. What's the point in mentioning them at all if you would not show them. There are modern individual buildings scattered here and there, but for the most part there's no evidence of a well planned city authored by the United Nations planners. Far from it. This presentation has done a lot of damage in my opinion, to Awka. All I see is a rusty, raggedy, landscape of the old Awka as opposed to the new. Speaking for myself in the diaspora, I DO NOT want to see the worst, but the best in my country and Africa, as a whole, why, because we've seen enough of the worst in prejudiced, racist Western media. Bro, you have your modus operandi, which I respect, but it's about time we Africans showcased our best places to the world not our worst because nobody adverises his worst products or assets but the best.
IMPRESSIVE number of buildings from 1991 to date but the most disorganized and unplanned urban area in AFRICA. ANAMBRA just left OLD ANAMBRA STATE in 1991, if you can't plan something better than NEW HAVEN, ACHALA LEYOUT, GRA and so on in ENUGU why don't you REPLICATE THEM? THIS IS MODERN URBAN JUNGLE MAN. Even ABAKPA NIKE is currently better organized. WHY THESE ENDLESS UNKEPT ROADS WITH NO STREETS ADJOINING TO THEM AND DISORGANIZED STRUCTURES? Come on people, AWKA SHOULD BE THE MOST MODERN CITY IN THE EAST. You started travelling abroad long, long before any other group from OLD ANAMBRA STATE but it is not reflecting here at all. Pls stop now and get ORGANIZED.
You have said what you think is most correct. Anyway you are not alone neither you are the only one to comment. Hoping to hear from others point of view. Thank you for visiting.
This is why there is a lot of crime and cultist in Nigeria, Nigerians are almost trapped in an area due to lack of good infrastructures. There is more rubbish on the road than there are good roads. If these roads were tarred and traffic flow freely people would be busy going places, different commercial activities to even remember crime. But the lack of decent roads means more and more people don't see the need to go anyway, are trapped in a place, with time they will become a menice and all sort of social vices in society. Anambra need to do better. I don't know why it's so difficult for Nigerian government to have road maintainance agency in every town to fix roads...Next to every police station should be road maintenance agency task with fixing roads, potholes, clean roads etc.
More and more viewers are complaining about this bad roads in Anambra and Southeast and no doubt about that. About the road maintenanc agency, what if the agencies are scattered all over places and yet they dont do their job?
What is the government waiting for? That much stretch of roads and main streets without patterned parallel streets and cross streets for future growth and traffic management. They visit all these foreign countries but don't seem to learn a lot from them. The various governments in the Southeast, state and local governments alike, should do everything they can to secure the necessary right of way before any further developments. Furthermore, it will be much easier than to have to demolish structures after the fact that prove to be far more expensive for future administrators. They need a comprehensive planning with the necessary infrastructure in place before private individuals start their helter skelter building activities. There ought to be a moratorium on any new building until they come up with a plan to address future growth needs and development.
Its a pity that Anambra state govt cant boast of a good standard road or an estate in its capital city. What i saw here is far fetched to be called a clean city. The govt green and clean initiative is what i cant even figure out. 😊
Yangalife if you believe Awka is a nice town and people in comment section think otherwise then you should ask yourself questions…maybe you did not capture Awka very well because in your own eye is a sweet town but what the viewers are seeing is a poor , unplanned, dirty , bush glorified town
Iyke, I recognize the fact that Awka needs some attention just like every other cities around but for some to condemn the city because of one or two things they don't like is not fair.
@@YangaLife it is fair, it shows you their anger towards the government and the lack of love for their people, their love is just to steal from the people...rather than the nonsense governor to address issues in the state....he is busy buying his house of rep to approve loans and buying them cars....one of his campaign promise was to change the face of Okpoko and till now nothing has been done instead of facing governance he was busy attacking Peter Obi....Anambra is slightly larger than Lagos but cannot be compared whether Lagos was initially the FCT doesn't matter...This governor has travelled out of the country and can see what has been done....how hard is it to emulate that in his own state...like with common sense one can govern a state to look world class even yourself will do better except your intentions are not in the interest of the people. Ebonyi state governor doesn't have 2 heads even tho I dislike the man, go to Enugu state capital again development is not about massive building
GameWothPete, I see your point. The issue is that many were over reacting and tackling the present governor as if he will perform magic to turn things around. I sincerely wish he can. The fact that some things are not good doesn't mean that something is not good. Gradually, we will get there. Our prayer is that God's willing by the time we move round again after 2, 3, or 4 years let their be tremendous positive difference.
Awka is a shame, looking like a village town. I don't know what peter obi, Obiano and this present talkative called Soludo did to bettet this their capital. Noting so interesting there.
Lol but awka is also the capital of anambra state. So what do you mean. It’s even no way near calabar or uyo. Cannot even campare with port harcourt. The truth is that the eastern governors are not doing anything that will drive critical growth in their states. And it’s a big shame. They are reason theses eastern cities are stagnant and languishing. They all need to come together and formulate an economic reform to make better progress in respective areas in their regions. I’m from the east as well and it’s shame we cannot boast of any major or critical development in the region.
That response has a big error. Probably, wanted to type another thing. And the person that started the conversation world have used capitals like PH and not even Ikeja. However, Lagos revenue can't be compared to Anambra. But that was not an excuse. The problem is commitment to standard. The infrastructure on ground, how good are they? Are they up to standard expectations? Even if not all how many?
@@desmondnedualaegbu5526 what is wrong with u about Owerri ,Owerri this Owerri that all the time,the bone of the contention here awka... Let me shock u.there is no road in entire Anambra state that is as neat as Douglas road in Owerri. Counter this let me see. Anambra state is a lovely state ,no doubt about that,but intense of keeping environment Anambra state has failed. Anambra is dirty ,that's only remark any reasonable person can attribute to this this video after watching the city. Same goes to onitsha,a very dirty slum called a state.
@@desmondnedualaegbu5526 all Ur saying is fact. But do u agree with me that Anambra is one of dirtiest state in Nigeria. Very dirty.witg poor road design and drainage systems.
@@desmondnedualaegbu5526 I see u are nothing but a kid,none of Ur comments is devoid of calling names,and insults.make Ur point and learn how to talk to Ur elder. Am old enough to be Ur father. I see nothing in this video that warrant insult.than to make Ur point. Even chinedu who u never one day encouraged of bringing this to us has never talk to anybody like this . Pls learn and grow.
The day govt ll procure sweeping machine and employs people for sweeping the roads and clearing the gutters,with prompt evacuation of waist . The landscape will change. For what i saw here is below acceptance to be called a capital. Soludo can quickly go to abakiliki and learn how to preserve environment.let me not call lagos. #awaka_is_ dirty.
We don’t need people to clean gutters, construction of underground drainage will solve that problem. Sweeper trucks will sweep the roads daily. Aesthetics don’t matter to our people and it’s very sad!
@@YangaLife is not looking like a capital city that's my state Anambra but our governors are not trying is looking very bad as capital city that's shame to our Anambra governors
Awka need a 6 lane road apart from Enugu onitsha express way , Govt should Construct it intentionally so as to open up the town . The adjoining roads will link it up . This will go a long way to open up awka . They should also do more in sanitation. Everywhere is full of garbage
Keep misleading yourself thinking you are tricking people to watch your video. If you post fake picture in your headline no reasonable person will come back to your channel. This your dishonesty act can make your channel not to grow.
@Desmond nedu alaegbu for avoidance of doubt am from Anambra state so stop been sentimental on this issue say the truth at all time yes I want awka and government of Anambra state to step up the infrastructural development and control refuse dump on road side create management in other to keep Anambra state clean and plant trees 🌳 and grasses beside the road to make it more livable for our people and visitors by the way there is no way you will compare awka with owerri because owerri is well plan city and neat too so stop your sentiments 😉
@@YangaLifeplease stop calling Awka city …lack of town planning, Bushes every where no beautification even infront of so called international conference center , Bad roads . Please Awka need a complete overhaul.
