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“A bill for an Act to establish the South East Development Commission charged with the responsibility of, among other things, receiving and managing funds from allocation of the Federation Account for the construction and rehabilitation of roads, houses and other infrastructural damages suffered by the region as a result of the civil war as well…“A bill for an Act to establish the South East Development Commission charged with the responsibility of, among other things, receiving and managing...
Sponsored by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, and other lawmakers from the region, the bill also passed the third reading at the House in December 2023. Part of the lamentations of the people was that leveraging the Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation declared by a former head of State, General Yakubu Gowon after the war, the Federal Government was able to give speedy attention to rebuilding infrastructure and other misgivings suffered by other zones of the country during the unfortunate fratricide but failed to pay such attention to the Southeast region.
Nwigwe added: “An eight months projected figures of that year had shown that the entire five states generated about N21 billion and closely followed by the Northeast region with N38 billion. With the bill establishing a Development Commission for the zone now awaiting President Tinubu’s assent, stakeholders from the region are upbeat that the fortunes of the zone would change when the commission eventually takes off.
On the importance of the commission, he stated that it would “solve the age-long problem of the Southeast governors’ inability to establish a common platform for integrated development of the region.” He said there are enormous challenges waiting for the commission to address in the zone such as erosion issues, rehabilitation of infrastructure, roads, bridges, and creation of employment opportunities, among others.
“As you may know, the two worst underdeveloped regions in Nigeria today are the Northeast and the Southeast. The National Assembly had since passed the North East Development Commission Bill into law, leaving the war battered Southeast region neglected. Although the general perception remains that the commission is an idea whose time has come, Ezike, however, thinks that certain precautions need to be taken for it to deliver on its mandate in the zone.
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