Orashi river is touted to be the deepest in southeast and the deepest part is the confluence where it is connected to Oguta lake. That part Orashi is about 7.6 metres deep. From available information there is no known river in southeast that is up to 10 metres deep.
An average draught of a vessel is between 16 metres deep (already deeper than any river in southeast). Now consider that the deadweight of a vessel is about 500 million kgs. A container can weigh up to 32,000 kg.
It will be worthy to note that even at the sea port the large vessels remain at the high sea and smaller vessel are used to shuttle between the vessel and the port for loading.
A loaded crude oil vessel fully contains 2 million barrels. Kindly note also that vessel is very delicate because when a vessel encounters a collusion it must sink.
Considering the draught (16 metres), the size and deadweight of a vessel (500 million kg) it will be practically impossible to dredge orashi or Ukwa river as masochists theorised.
Friends, permit me to submit, that those who planned Nigeria or better still the founding fathers programed Port Harcourt to serve the Igbos as an alternative seaport and don’t forget that River State was a component part of Eastern region suffice it to say that both eastern and western regions were blessed with one seaport each.
The campaign for another seaport when there is one redundant in our Region is destructive to the regional block we are supposed to be building.
The current president of Ohaneze is from River State so how can Igbos sustain the argument that we don’t have a seaport. Is the evil from Afaraukwu Ibeku more Igbo than senator Azuka Mbata or any other riverian.
Rt Hon Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe and his team met a college at Ibadan and they gave us our own at Umuahia. They met a University at Ibadan and gave us our own at Nsukka. They gave us main market and projected Enugu as metropolitan city like lagos and sighted an airport at Enugu. Akanu Ibiam airport started as aerodrum in 1960, then there was no airport in the north or the west.
The Port Harcourt seaport was developed as a means for the transportation of coal to the west. Port Harcourt seaport was established in 1913 as well as Lagos seaport.
The fact that Ojukwu and most recently Emperor Nnamdi Ochi Kanu the evil child from Afaraukwu Ibeku dismantled or debunked all these historical fact doesn’t change their existence.
The evil hunting Ndigbo is the war and agitation. Ojukwu and his predecessors destroyed everything that Rt Hon Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe built in Igboland.
Friends kindly note that the narratives does not correspond to the facts on ground. What we lack is coordination. The little cohesion that existed till recently was totally devastated by that overzealous antichrist from isiama Afaraukwu Ibeku.
Ndigbo jilini nwayo.
On Port Harcourt we must always remember that with about 72 percent population of Igbos living in Port Harcourt Igbos are supposed to control or rule Port Harcourt perpetually.
That alone explains how politically naive the Igbo man could be. If a yoruba from Ondo or Kwara can lay claim to Lagos why can’t an Igbo from Anambra or Abia lay claim to Port Harcourt.
Common sense is not common nowadays.
We are discussing Lagos and Abuja when we can’t control Port or even Delta.
Written by Dr Paul Okoye
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