14/08/2025
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Nwoke Oraifite is still fighting hard to change the address of the permanent site of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi to have its address as Oraifite
One of his strategies for achieving this is by distabilizing and diving the political space in Nnewi. Sadly, he's using many ndị Nnewi to achieve this political disunity in their own Nnewi.
A typical case of akpịrị ego and lack of integrity.
Our fathers here in Nnewi paid every price for Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital to be set up in the 90s .
They attracted the project, erected buildings and donated equipments to the hospital to get it functional.
This hospital caters to the health issues of the entire south east and beyond.
People from different states in Nigeria work there too.
When the hospital was about to be relocated to the permanent site, three communities which are Nnewi, Oraifite and Ozubulu donated lands for the relocation, which means the project cuts across the three communities.
However, the hospital will always be referred to as Nnewi because :
1. Nnewi is the town that hosted the hospital initially
2. Nnewi is the big city among the three places. Oraifite and Ozubulu are suburbs of Nnewi.
What is the fight now for?
The existence of the hospital in that location will benefit everyone. Properties surrounding that neighborhood both in Akammili Umudim Nnewi, Oraifite and Ozubulu keep appreciating in value everyday.
Nnewi, Oraifite and Ozubulu all have their people as workers in the hospital as well.
What is the fight really for?
Had it been ndị Nnewi didn't attract the hospital, donated land,built structures and equipped it in the 90s, will these communities ever have the opportunity of having a federal teaching hospital close to them?
Even the permanent site has a lot of buildings that were erected and donated by ndị Nnewi.
We should know when to fight and when to properly take advantage of a development.
The permanent site of the hospital currently needs a lot of complementing investments like standard laboratories and diagnostic centres, standard pharmacies,standard private hospitals,real estate for the workers in the hospital, standard hostels for medical students, supermarkets for the hospital community, standard primary and secondary schools for the children of the hospital workers and the residents of the environs etc.
Why are they not taking advantage of these opportunities, instead of fighting for address of what they didn't lay foundation for?
We all should do better.
