You are a political thug to a politician, who is in office making money, and looting money.
But all you get as a thug is regular beer and miserable crumb.
You are foolish.
They are now arguing that Azumini proposed seaport cannot handle 5000 tons ship. This is how they spread ignorance to kill Igbo projects.
Let's educate them with FACTS:
1. Azumini is NOT a river gutter, it's 19 nautical miles to the Atlantic.
The Azumini Blue River joins Imo River which flows 240km directly into the Atlantic through Akwa Ibom. The corridor is just 35km to the sea. With dredging, it becomes a channel — same way Onne and Port Harcourt were dredged.
2. 5000 tons is SMALL even barges carry it.
Do you know that ordinary river barges in Nigeria already carry 2000-8000 tons daily on the Niger? Calabar Port currently with only 9.5m draft handles 15,000-20,000 ton vessels. So anyone saying Azumini cannot handle 5000 tons doesn't know shipping.
The plan is: Dredge to 10-12m depth like Calabar
Use feeder vessels and barges to connect to Ibom Deep Sea Port and Onne
Cargo moves from big ocean ships at Ibom/Onne to Azumini via barges, that is how 80% of ports work in the world (Rotterdam, Antwerp model).
3. The purpose is NOT to compete with Lekki, but to serve Aba.
Aba needs raw materials IN and finished goods OUT. If Azumini handles even 5000-10,000 ton vessels, logistics cost for Aba manufacturers drops by 40-60%. That is the goal not bragging about big ships.
4. They said Onne cannot work, today Onne is Nigeria's most modern port.
They said Ibom Deep Sea Port cannot work, construction has started. They always say Igbo projects cannot work.
They want us to keep going to Lagos to clear goods and then pay N1.8m per truck to bring it to Onitsha. That suffering is their business.
Azumini will work. The feasibility study will prove the dredging requirement, the draft, the cost and the design.
Stop listening to people who have never built a jetty arguing about tonnage.
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Igbo culture is so unique that if you didn’t learn from your parents, extended family, village, or community, there are so many things you will never learn outside Igbo land.
Online is not the place to cry about a culture you know nothing about.
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Before you let Nairametrics mislead you by framing this as though Nigeria has attracted $700 billion (twice the value of its current GDP) from the United States, here is what this deal means.
Nigeria’s mineral resources are valued at $700 billion, and that wealth is exactly what the Nigerian government has allowed the United States to come in and take.
The U.S is not bringing in $700 billion to your country, it’s rather coming to take. The only money they are going to invest in this is just a few millions to settle interest here and there and acquire machinery. If you are lucky, Nigeria gets to retain up 10% of the total wealth, otherwise, they are taking everything.
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I am now actively dying my body is breaking down in an extreme state rapidly.
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