A member representing Ezeagu/Udi Federal Constituency of Enugu State in the House of Representatives representing, Hon. Sunday Cyriacus Umeha, has commended the Senate for passage of the South East Development Commission (SEDC) bill.
The lawmaker, who gave the commendation in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, also appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to give an accelerated assent to the bill once transmitted to him.
Umeha traced the chequered history of advocacy and clamour for the Commission which dates back to the 8th National Assembly and described it as a timely legislation which would go a long way in assuaging the feelings of neglect and marginalization by the Igbo.
He further urged Tinubu to ensure a speedy assent to the Bill when it is finally transmitted.
“The passage of the SEDC Bill is another evidence that the 10th National Assembly is a people-oriented legislature with the concerns of the ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria at heart.
“It had always been my advocacy that an establishment of a South East Development Commission will represent the first significant milestone of the Nigerian government to heal the wounds of the Civil War which are still evident in the South Eastern region through a peculiar case of infrastructural deficit and manifesting itself through widely held secessionist sentiments in the region.
“I am confident that when the Commission comes on stream, it would be a veritable vehicle for the much-needed investment in human, social and physical infrastructure in the region.
“I hope that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would show uncommon leadership by granting immediate assent to the Bill unlike what happened in the past administration”, Umeha said.
