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SEDC: President Tinubu deserves kudos for reversing years of Igbo relegation - Onuigbo


... Onuigbo tasks pioneer members on excellent performance


CHAIRMAN, Security, Climate Change, and Special Interventions Committee on the Governing Board of North East Development Commission (NEDC), Rep. Sam Ifeanyi Onuigbo, has said that the President, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu GCFR, deserves special thanks for empaneling 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 made available to media, Sunday, in Abuja, Onuigbo, who represents South East geopolitical zone in the Governing Board of NEDC, remarked that the SEDC has unique and specialized roles to play 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- Rehabilitation, 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, President Tinubu has touched a sensitive nerve to heal deep-seated wounds of the past.

He stated: “In all honesty, President Tinubu 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, the President has equipped the commission to intervene in a special way to address the wounds of the past through psychological healing.

“The SEDC has come to remove the nagging feelings of distrust and socio-economic marginalization among the people of South East. For rising to this historical challenge, special thanks should go to President Tinubu.”

He therefore charged the pioneer members of SEDC to work extra hard with uncommon unity of purpose to lay a solid foundation for the commission by achieving great milestones, even as he urged the members to do all in their powers to reenact the past global rating of South East as one of the fastest growing economies in the world.

Onuigbo, who sponsored Nigeria’s landmark legislation on the Climate Change in the 9th National Assembly, said the leadership and members of the 10th National Assembly equally deserve a pat in the back for rolling out the SEDC law.

He stressed that the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu, succeeded in writing his name in gold by that momentous legislation, adding that the ball is now in the court of the members of the SEDC to live up to the great expectations of the enabling law.


“As one who sponsored the Climate Change Act 2021, I know the rigours, hurdles, and challenges of working any piece of impactful legislation through the various processes up to the signing stage. On this score, Rt. Hon. Ben Kalu has justified his position as Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and as a focused leader.

“In the same vein, my appeal goes to the leaders, stakeholders, Ndigbo at home and in the Diaspora, and residents in the South-East geopolitical zone to join hands and support the Emeka Wogu-led members of the Governing Board of the commission to succeed. The success of the commission would be the greatest sign of the show of appreciation to President Tinubu for breaking the jinx and delivering this historic gesture.


“Coming at a time when Nigeria’s independence national anthem has been reinstated, the people of South East can now boldly sing and believe that the journey to building a nation, ‘where no one is oppressed,’ has begun,” Onuigbo declared.


It could be recalled that although the idea of a South East Development Commission was mooted in the life of the 6th National Assembly, the bill suffered many dislocations in the 8th and 9th Assemblies until Hon. Ben Kalu and other lawmakers rallied to its passage and eventual signing into law by President Bola Tinubu in July 2024.

The President recently forwarded the names of members of the SEDC, to be headed by the former Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr. Emeka Wogu, to the Senate for screening and possible confirmation.

According to the establishment Act, the Commission is charged with the responsibility of, among other things, “to receive and manage funds from allocations of the Federation Account for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of roads, houses and other infrastructural damages suffered by the region” during the civil war, as well as tackle the ecological problems and other related environmental cum developmental challenges in the South East states.

Source : https://newsmaxng.com/2024/12/16/sedc-president-tinubu-deserves-kudos-for-reversing-years-of-igbo-relegation-onuigbo/

Tinubu deserve the right to make Nigerians lives better but what do you expect of a man who's ways have been all around and about corrupt practices. Let's be truthful, Tinubu is not a man of high moral standards and this is evident in the beer parlour politics he practices.

Tinubu is a thief and this was evident in the past election observed in Nigeria. As Nigerians, we must learn to say truth to power and stop fanning nonsense all cos of favor or position.

It's not right celebrating thieves, people of questionable characters and sources of how they became wealthy. Wealth gathered through theft, desperation to become president yet it was all about hardship upon Nigerians.

At such age, someone like Tinubu isn't supposed to be gallivanting all in the name of President if not greed. When Yar-Adua was president, we saw the difference not this thief portraying to be a saint.

Nigerian Youths, wake up from slumber and free yourselves from the shakles of slavery in which the thieves in governance have imprisoned you.

Nigerians are suffering like never before while the government is claiming reforms and development on the media

That’s why a whole Lagos developer will lose election in the state he allegedly developed. It’s all propaganda.

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Any Business idea with 10m
?

The ones created for North West, North East, Southwest how many politicians from that region thanked Buhari or Tinubu.

This my political brother & neigbour from the East also agrees that the SE has always been marginalized hence my brothers sholud fall flat on their bellies to say thank you for thesame thing other regions have been enjoying for decades .

This thank you measage exposes & confirms that our brothers from the East have always suffered marginalisation, economic & political negiect

Tinubu is the best Nigeria president so far

They will still not be satisfied though.

https://www.nairaland.com/8286010/africa-u-grant-scam-stanic

Beware Nigerians of this scam

Man102:
Source : https://newsmaxng.com/2024/12/16/sedc-president-tinubu-deserves-kudos-for-reversing-years-of-igbo-relegation-onuigbo/

Even if e do everything for them, dem no go appreciate.

All because Thier favourite lost election to him 😁

yommen:
They will still not be satisfied though.

Satisfied of what?,coconut head

BAT the man they love to hate is generous, selfless and magnanimous to his haters in victory

Red cap sabotuer, i wonder how much Tifnubu paid him to tell this lies to his people.

Okay, na una sabi

For where? Nothing is good in the eyes from those across the Niger.
Despite all what Jagaban did for them when he was the governor of Lagos state. He allowed them to participate in his government. Most of them were vice-chairmen of LGA in lasgidi. Yet they still supported chinedu over his own candidate; same thing they can't allow in their own state.
One of them was just bursted on Twitter not quite long concerning a comment he made in 2020.
Nothing Jagaban can do to please them. I tell people that it's not as if they are blind to Jagaban's achievements or that of his successors in Lagos state. But the hatred they have towards him is solely based on their mentality that how can one man single handedly determines the fate of millions of people? How can he speaks and millions will listen to him? So this is act is alien to them. They believe that the average ibo man is a king on his own hence they don't take instructions from a man like them. It isn't their fault; they've been like that since the colonial era. They practiced decentralized system of government. May God heal them and open their hearts!

ANOTHER FOOL TALKING NONSENSE.

WEN ELDERS MUMU



IF U WANT TO BEG FOR APPOINTMENT, DO SO, BUT LEAVE IGBO OUT OF IT.

Onuigbo, you don pass your boundary.

Your family history will soon be in public view now.

benikad:
Any Business idea with 10m
?

Buy crypto and hodl you will eat good next year. Avoid memes if you got no idea about it.

Noted.

benikad:
Any Business idea with 10m
?

A lot, invest in Healthcare or Education. Time tested businesses that outlives other businesses.

DatNiggaDaz:


The ones created for North West, North East, Southwest how many politicians from that region thanked Buhari or Tinubu.

This my political brother & neigbour from the East also agrees that the SE has always been marginalized hence my brothers sholud fall flat on their bellies to say thank you for thesame thing other regions have been enjoying for decades .

This thank you measage exposes & confirms that our brothers from the East have always suffered marginalisation, economic & political negiert.

Be sensible for once!

Is it everything one jokes with?

You are not serious!

How has he reversed Igbos relegation if Igbos were ever relegated?? Besides, is he not sitting on an Igboman's freely given mandate that he stole

Give me a break and tell your tale to the baboon. We know how he got to where he's sitting

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Hungry praisesingers and bloody stooges are everywhere this day

Man102:
Source : https://newsmaxng.com/2024/12/16/sedc-president-tinubu-deserves-kudos-for-reversing-years-of-igbo-relegation-onuigbo/

We are all happy for these new development commissions but unlike the NDDC we all know where it's allocation and funding comes fromas paid by the FG.
But the newly formed development commissions where will their funding come from?
Also let them also note that those Eastern States that were added to the NDDC they should all be moved out to their right places which is the SEDC.

Please, has the relegation of Igbo reserved? We the Igbos we have serious problems, anybody that got one useless appointment will just go to the media and started talking nonsense.

Nonsense talk

I'm not surprised. Anything to promote the failed and incompetent administration of the drug criminal.

benikad:
Any Business idea with 10m
?

Find a northern state and go into Pampers and menses pad business. With a year, if u can click a steady supply and availability of goods, you will triple of that money.