The House of Representatives was on Friday, engulfed in a rowdy session as members debated a bill concerning the South-East Development Commission (SEDC)

It is understood that those leading the protests in the chambers are members of the House mainly from the South-East geopolitical zone.



They are said to be upset over the abrupt withdrawal of a bill seeking to create a South-East Development Commission, despite the best efforts of House Speaker Yakubu Dogara in explaining that the bill was stepped down because its sponsor, Honourable Chukwuka Onyema, was absent from plenary.

Addressing the House on the matter, Speaker Dogara said the lawmakers were not against the bill, but that debates could not be continued due to the absence of the bill’s sponsor, Hon Onyema.

Order eventually prevailed in the House after about 15 minutes of pandemonium as the bill is now being considered by the lawmakers.

The SEDC has been one of the contentious bills in the legislature following its introduction in 2016 as a response to the North East Development Commission (NEDC) introduced in 2015.

Although its core objectives are yet to be debated, advocates of the bill say it will help tackle alleged marginalisation of the south-east and bridge the development gap of the region – a cry that’s been amplified in the present administration as manifested in the recent exclusion of the south-east in the Federal Government’s modernisation policy of railway projects nationwide.

This also comes amid heightened separatist pressures in the region that saw a massive sit-at-home on May 30 (Biafra day) that crippled economic activities across all five states and parts of the south-south.

For now, the future of the bill is at best conjectural.

http://www.metronaija.com/2017/06/mayhem-in-house-of-reps-over-south-east.html

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Criminals looking for ways to loot more money.

With this I now know that this country can never be one, give every region development commission and give them allocations

Hmm

Hmmmmm... they need cane in dat house

OZAOEKPE:
With this I now know that this country can never be one, give every region development commission and give them allocations

Tell your bloder to leport to the House when he sponsors a bill.

Hmmm

How can you be reporting
A news that happened last
Week Friday today....


Do you think NL is your beer
Parlour joint..

one will tink dey av d interest of the people at heart deep inside of us we knw dey just wnt 2 embezzle d fund

Why are these People so confused. They want south easat development commission, and at the same time they also want biafra

SuperS1Panther:
South East Devt Commission ko Biafrau.d Developers Commission ni

We borrowed them £20 they did not work for in 1970, and they are yet to repay it back.

Sincerely their noise is now becoming irritating. They want referendum, they want south east development commissioin, they want biafra, later they will cry about marginalisation.
I am just sick and tired of their irritating cries. I wish they can get their dream country today.

If that is the case every region deserves a Development Commission.

They should organize induction courses for rep members since they apparently don't know norms governing the house.

The proposed south east development commission is to serve what purpose?

sekundosekundo:
Criminals looking for ways to loot more money.

Criminals like tinubu, fasholas, and .......?

seunmsg:
The proposed south east development commission is to serve what purpose?

To help them catch up wwith the developmental levels of the NE.

NATIONALPASTOR:


Your hate for Igbos will bring BIAFRA faster than you ever thought possible.

Th faster the realisation of your online fraud of a country, the better for the peace of the world and progress of Nigeria.

For now, Biafrau.d is a laughing stock and a joke of the millenium.

Not against your fraudulent country, just follow the proper channel.

My hatred is justified because the Supreme Scam Leader of Biafrau.d Lord of Kuje Prison the toothless yellow pawpaw Nnamid Kunnu, preached more hate against my ethnicity, he even preached killing of people from ethnicity. Do you expect me to love him or I should be raining curses on him and his generations at every 2am of the night for 40days and 40nights.

I do fully understood that most dingbats from certain section of the Nigeria who have been busy calling for restructuring of the country cannot even comprehend the essence of it if stood up on the bridge of their noises. How could one feel twisted because of the so-called SEDC (south east development commission) yet idiotically shout for restructure?

vedaxcool:


To help them catch up with development with the NE.

It is an unnecessary demand that was borne out of the desire to create chaos and further the marginalisation narrative. We can as well cancel all existing state structure and create new regional commissions to replace them.

Maduawuchukwu:
The guy above me na Oluku. Every region go soon get regional development commission.

No problem, but where are the regions hoping to get funds to run the development commissions, I hope they are not hoping to milk the Nigerdelta region. The States in a region can contribute to fund their regional development commission, the regions can tax companies operating within the region as done in the nigerdelta.
The Niger delta development commission NDDC get most of its fundings from the oil companies operating in the region.