Prominent Igbo sons and philanthropists Emeka Offor and Arthur Eze have thrown their weight behind the peace initiative in Nigeria’s south-east region with financial commitment.

The initiative is being championed by an organization known as Peace in South East Project (PISE-P) with the support of the members of the National Assembly from the zone led by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu.

The project is a comprehensive five-year peace-building and development initiative designed to address the complex socioeconomic challenges and security issues facing the South East region of Nigeria.

It is essentially pushing for a non-kinetic means of resolving the lingering air of violence and security challenges in the region, improving the infrastructural development of the state and ensuring greater political inclusion of the zone in the national equation.

Receiving a delegation of the organization led by Kalu who paid him a courtesy visit yesterday, Offor lauded the initiative, saying it was a welcome development.

He said that going by the eight cardinal pillars of Education, Agriculture, Commerce and Industry, Infrastructural Development, Culture and Tourism, Sports and Entertainment, Governance and Leadership; and Reconciliation/Rehabilitation/Reintegration encapsulated in the non-kinetic measures, PISE-P is well positioned to give a new lease of life in the south east by tackling the security challenges.

To this end, Offor doled out an undisclosed amount of money to support the project even as he called other prominent Nigerians of Igbo extraction and, indeed, Nigerians from all walks of life to support the project.

Similarly, another prominent Igbo son and billionaire businessman, Arthur Eze, has also firmed up his promise of committing some finances to the project.

It will be recalled that Kalu also recently led a delegation of PISE-P to brief him on the project’s mission to which he pledged some huge amount of money.

Meanwhile, PISE-P will be officially unveiled on December 29, 2023 in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State.
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