Onuigbo lauds Tinubu over South-East Development Commission

The Chairman of the Security, Climate Change, and Special Interventions Committee on the Governing Board of the North East Development Commission (NEDC), Sam Ifeanyi Onuigbo, yesterday, said that President Bola Tinubu deserves special thanks for empanelling the South-East Development Commission (SEDC).

He noted that by expeditiously assenting to the bill for the creation of SEDC after its checkered passage by the 10th National Assembly, the President did what other Nigerian leaders before him could not do.

In a statement, Onuigbo, who represents the South-East geopolitical zone in the Governing Board of NEDC, remarked that the SEDC has unique and specialised roles and promises to fulfill for the region after the intense devastations of the civil war.

He declared that the South East interventionist commission was coming more than 54 years after a proclamation to address the promises of the triple Rs, Rehabilitatio, Reconstruction, and Reintegration, which were virtually abandoned by successive military and civilian administrations.

Onuigbo, who served two terms as the representative of Ikwuano/Umuahia North and Umuahia South Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, remarked that as a man of history, Tinubu has touched a sensitive nerve to heal deep-seated wounds of the past.

He stated: “In all honesty, the President 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.”