SEDC: Onuigbo Hails President Tinubu For Carrying Igbos Along
SEDC: Onuigbo Hails President Tinubu For Carrying Igbos Along
Member representing the South East in the Governing board of the North East Development Commission (NEDC), Chief Sam Onuigbo, says President Bola Ahmed Tinubu deserves applause for mainstreaming the Igbo people in the political arithmetics of the country.
Chief Sam Onuigbo who was a former member of the House of Representatives was speaking in connection of the newly created South East Development Commission by President Tinubu to help rehabilitate, reconstruct and reintegrate the zone into the nations epicenter of activities where it belonged before the civil war between 1967 and 1970.
Chief Onuigbo who is also the Chairman, Security, Climate Change, and Special Intervention Committee on the Governing Board of North East Development Commission (NEDC) disclosed this while interacting with the media at the nation’s capital territory, Abuja.
He also explained that the SEDC has unique and specialized roles to play to reposition the region after the intense devastations of the civil war affected the people and their means of livelihoods adding that the president has done what other leaders could not do.
“In all honesty, President Tinubu deserves special thanks from the people of South East, because for more than half a century, the scars of the civil war remained with us in terms of infrastructure despoliation, social disconnection and economic tribulation.“
“By signing the South East Development Commission establishment bill into law and following it up with the constitution of its members, the President has equipped the commission to intervene in a special way to address the wounds of the past through psychological healing.”
The two term member in the green chamber of the national Assembly, Chief Sam Onuigbo also appreciated the Deputy Speaker, House of representatives Benjamin Kalu for sponsoring the law and pursuing it to the latter.
On the newly constituted board, the lawmaker and climate change expert, Chief Onuigbo urged the pioneer members to be dutiful by getting to work with the aim to achieve results of revamping the South East zone for sustainable growth and development.
The Former Lawmaker also urged the members to do all in their powers to reenact the past global rating of South East as one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
“As one who sponsored the Climate Change Act 2021, I know the rigours, hurdles, and challenges of working any piece of impactful legislation through the various processes up to the signing stage. On this score, Rt. Hon. Ben Kalu has justified his position as Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and as a focused leader.” He explained.
According to him “South East interventionist commission was coming more than 54 years after a proclamation to address the promises of the triple Rs- Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, and Reintegration-which were virtually abandoned by successive military and civilian administrations.”
The stakeholders in the Nigerian project, Chief Onuigbo appealed to other leaders in the Igbo land including those at home and in the Diaspora, rally round the Emeka Wogu-led members of the Governing Board of the commission to enable them succeed in their assignment.
