₦airaland Forum

The House of Representatives on Thursday rejected a bill seeking the establishment of South East Development Commission. The House rejected the second reading of the bill after it was put to a voice vote by the speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara.

Chukwuka Onyema (Anambra-PDP), sponsor of the bill, had argued that the bill sought to tackle poverty and ecological problems confronting the South East part of the country.

He said the bill also sought to receive and manage fund from allocation of the federation account for the development, restructure and rehabilitation of roads, houses and other infrastructure in the region.
Contributing to the debate, the House Minority Leader, Leo Ogor (Delta-PDP), said the bill would address most of the issues affecting the region.

“This country cannot continue with the situation where we come to Abuja every month to share money. “I think every zone deserves such commission because it will make everybody look inward.

“This nation needs to be restructured, we cannot continue the way we are going,” Mr. Ogor said.
Sani Abdul (Bauchi-APC) said the agitation to create the commission was as a result of the government’s inability to address the socio-economic challenges in the country. “We should look at it holistically in order not to have problems.

“We are worried, however, because the timing of the bill with the agitation for Biafra is suspicious,” Mr. Abdul said.

Some lawmakers while opposing the bill, said the timing of was not appropriate.

Sunday Karimi (Kogi-PDP) said some of the South-East states were already captured in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and “the creation of a South East Commission will be too much”.

Sani Zorro (Jigawa-APC) said not much consultation was done to ensure the success of the bill.

“I won’t be comfortable that at the end of the day we leave here with acrimony. “In view of the debate we have had so far, I am of the view that the sponsors and supporters of this bill should make further consultations,’’ Mr. Zoro said. (NAN)

Odingo1:
Where did I bank on the north,so northerners are not doing businesses in Biafra land or Nigeria wont need Biafra market,is it only Biafra that will need Nigeria then why not them have the Biafra,then you will understand what I am talking about.

Nafizzey:
Literate? Or you want put I
Illiterate? Confuse lots Kawai

oshe11:
I no "LAFIYA" means FINE....


like Nakwana.....

Lafiya Alawu


But whats the meaning of "DOLE" again



My second FTC sinx I joined Nairaland...


And 1st was also Today!


Keep the Hustling on, U wud mk It sumday....


Dnt ever relent

conductor2:
No, I must first have to remove the unclean spirit from your skull before any other thing.

conductor2:
Nobody replied you because most responsible Biafrans have gone to their various workplaces to makeup for yesterday's massive sit-at-home.
And who will even discuss Biafra with a cone headed hydraulic who believes the world ends inside his father's brownroof mud house in Ogbomosho?

Stay here and keep pounding your ewedu moozlem skull on the floor till you have sense.

Phonefanatic:
FFK is a politician and you know what all politicians are capable of now who made these quotes below?

"(Going by election results), constituencies that gave me 97% can not in all honesty be treated, on some issues, with constituencies that gave me 5%. I think these are political realities. While, certainly there will be justice for everybody but the people who voted, and made their votes count, they must feel the government has appreciated the effort they put in putting the government in place. I think this is really fair...."

If I should go with politicians word for word tell me why the so called liepods won't believe FFK

swagagolic01:
Uve not answered me, stop d noise nd answer me

icedfire:
He had one full year after the conference to implement the outcome yet he didn't. Abeg lets admit, Jonathan failed.
A sovereign national conference would have been a solution to start with

Implementing the 2014 Congress report would have been progress.

He just wasted people's time a money constituting a conference