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🤣😂 TALES BY MOONLIGHT INDEED — THE ARGUMENT HAS FINALLY COLLAPSED UNDER ITS OWN NOISE! So because someone displayed allocation figures on a website, he has suddenly become the Auditor-General, Accountant-General and project inspector of Ohafia LGA? 🤣🤣 My brother, allocation is not the same thing as idle cash sitting inside a chairman’s bedroom! Local government funds cover salaries, pensions, primary healthcare, sanitation, education support, security, rural infrastructure, administration and other statutory obligations. But our “Grandmaster Psychic” has already concluded that nothing is happening because he has not personally commissioned a project in Abiriba. 😂 Abiriba is important, but Ohafia…

🤣🤣 THE CONFIDENCE IS LOUD, BUT THE LOGIC IS ON LEAVE! So because Governor Alex Otti is constructing roads, rebuilding schools and improving public infrastructure, Local Government Chairmen must now suspend their own responsibilities and hide behind the Governor’s achievements? Wonderful mathematics! 😂 You asked whether there is a single LGA project in Abiriba, but before anyone could answer, you had already written the conclusion, prosecuted the case and delivered judgment from your WhatsApp courtroom. Please calm down, Your Lordship! 🤣 The truth you are desperately running away from is simple: government is coordinated. The State Government and the 17…

ABIA’S LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE WORKING WITH THE STATE — ALLOCATION FIGURES ALONE DO NOT PROVE CORRUPTION The publication of monthly allocations to Abia’s 17 Local Government Areas is welcome. Transparency should never frighten a government that is working. However, it is misleading to display gross allocation figures and immediately conclude that the Local Government Chairmen are corrupt, ineffective or have done nothing. An allocation figure tells us how much was credited. It does not, by itself, tell us: How much went into salaries and personnel obligations; How much was committed to pensions and statutory responsibilities; How much funded primary healthcare,…

OTTI’S STEWARDSHIP: GOVERNMENT AS A SACRED TRUST The figures before us are more than monthly allocations to Abia’s 17 Local Government Areas. They represent a fundamental principle of democratic governance: public resources belong to the people, and the people have a right to know what their government receives, spends and delivers. From Aba South’s ₦754.54 million to Ukwa East’s ₦417.23 million for April 2026, the information is available for citizens to examine. This is in the spirit of transparency Governor Alex Otti has consistently encouraged. He has nothing to hide. Theoretically, government exists through a social contract. The people surrender…

IN PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: NINE VOICES, THREE CITIES AND THE COUNTDOWN TO ABIA’S OKADA BAN Voice of the People | Metro Policy Review | Okada Ban Effective June 29, 2025 The clock was ticking. Across Aba, Umuahia and Ohafia, one date continued to appear in conversations, motor parks, markets, offices and roadside shops: June 29, 2025. For many residents, it was not merely another date on the calendar. It represented the day movement, commerce and everyday survival could change dramatically following the enforcement of the state government’s ban on commercial motorcycles, popularly known as Okada. Would the policy bring greater…

SERIOUSLY, PROFESSOR? 😳😂😂😂 A government constructs a major road, and your new measurement of success is: “How many Abians are on the board of Julius Berger?” Haba! Was the contract for road reconstruction or for the compulsory allocation of Julius Berger shares and board seats? 😂😂😂 By this strange economic theory, before Toyota supplies government vehicles, Abians must sit on Toyota’s board. Before Microsoft provides software, Abians must become Microsoft shareholders. Before an airline carries Abians, somebody from Obingwa must be appointed to its board! 😂😂😂 Let us conduct a small lecture. Public procurement is not ethnic wealth distribution. It…

THE BIG ECONOMICS OF A FIVE-STAR HOTEL: MOSES ORJI’S “HOTEL CRAZE” AND THE DELIBERATE MISREPRESENTATION OF PRODUCTIVE ASSET CONVERSION A Response to Mr Moses Ayodele Orji, Writer, and Mr Eric, Poster By Pastor Prof. Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke Mr Eric recently circulated an article written by Mr Moses Ayodele Orji under the dramatic title, “What’s This Craze About Five-Star Hotels?” The article is lengthy, angry, insulting and politically theatrical. It portrays Governor Alex Otti as a leader wandering around Abia State, acquiring land and erecting luxury hotels wherever he finds an empty space. According to this curious narrative, an airport district…