Nigeria: Theodore's Edifice of Shame (1)

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AS YOU descend the long, undulating hill that leads to Aba River, popularly called waterside, you would have beheld a glittering horizon illuminated by the floodlights from a magnificent edifice, some few poles away.

Right on the bridge over the waters, you would have savoured the velvet reflections of light that brighten the waters as it cascade along its snaky shores. Then, as you cross the bridge, and begin to climb into another area of the metropolis known as Orgbor-hill, you would have embraced a well-designed landscape of vast greenery of flowers and trees, with parks and gardens, all overlooking the waters.And from the balcony of this eight-storey edifice, you would have beheld a beautiful scene of the city, with motorists and pedestrian competing for space on the narrow single-lane streets. You would have captured Aba, the historic, commercial nerve-centre of Abia State, with all its vibrations. You would have retired back to an abode of peace and comfort. You would have been inside Enyimba Hotels, Aba, the lofty dream of late Chief Sam Mbakwe, former Governor of the old Imo State. This was the dream of the visionary for his people. This was a dream that was never to be. WHY

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