The eventful South East Summit on Security and Economy, SESSE 2023, has ended with a strident call for the setting up of the South East Development Commission (SEDC) to manifestly and unwaveringly operationalize ideas for their development through actions for results, not jaded rhetorics.
This was the blunt remit of Prof Sam Amadi, former Executive Security of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission and a foremost development scholar in an intensive lead paper he delivered at the Summit.
He asserted that, the historic rapid transformation of the then Eastern Region of Nigeria under the premiership of late Dr. Michael Okpara in the first republic, was a record other nations marvelled and copied, and therefore could be replicated without any pretence to magic or laments of limitations, but simply a leadership commitment to a mission and zeal for action.
Reemphasizing the successes of the zone in the first Republic that made the region the fastest growing economy in the world then, he declared that the ‘rocket attitude’ was the right mix of development processes, a coordinating body and a strong political will and character that made inclusion a norm and citizen mobilization a charm.
“We have seen how Europe and Asia transformed their economies. We can borrow or reincarnate what we knew, to create a developmentalist state, that has political will to mobilize relevant consensus on a development agenda that drives and thrives coherently and consistently.”
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