Ikemba Front Says PBAT Can Rewrite History With Southeast Development Commission


The Ikemba Front, a political pressure group, has said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu can change the narrative of Igbo question in Nigeria by signing and implementing the tye South East Development Commission Bill which has been passed by the National Assembly.

Mr Arinzechukwu Awogu, the National Coordinator of Ikemba Front said this in a state while commending the Senate for passing the Bill which was sponsored by Den. Ifeanyi Ubah, member representing (APC) Anambra South Senatorial District in Awka on Sunday.

Awogu said the Bill if assented to and implemented would mark the beginning of post war reconstruction process in the Southeast region of Nigeria.

He said the Commission would address the issues that the reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation could not do, pointing out history presented President Tinubu the opportunity to right the wrongs.

According to him, the SEDC Bill sponsored by Sen. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, to my mind, is more than an additional state for the South East.
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Recall that the civil war was fought here, right here in the Southeast, but they started building bridges in Lagos, construction was not happening here.

"Roads, houses, bridges, schools, hospitals, markets, churches, farmlands, rail lines, jetties, among others, that were obliterated did not see reconstruction till date.

"There is a huge debt of social injustice owed to the former Eastern region by the rest of the Nigerian state but I believe that the Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah's sponsored SEDC Bill, will be Game-changer," he said.

Awogu said what was needed was a government that will embrace justice, equity and fairness; charity for all and malice towards none

He said the Ahmed Bola Tinubu's government appeared to be tilting towards that direction with the passage and expected assent to the SEDC Bill.

"Perhaps, Ashiwaju's administration with this Bill, is beginning to edge closer to healing the wounds of the fratricidal civil war and the deliberate policy of marginalisation, deprivation, ostracization and criminal neglect of the Igbo population.

*Certainly, President Ahmed Bola Tinubu stands the chance of giving the Igbo reason to be hopeful and to feel belonged again in a federation where they have become the only true federating people of the Nigerian federation," he said.

Signing the bill is not the problem but appointing the right people (not just corrupt allies) to run it as well as funding it. Anyone can sign any bill into law, but what happens afterwards?