The Senator Representing Anambra Central Senatorial District, Senator Victor Umeh has expressed optimistic that the South East Development Commission Bill when passed into law will scale up economic activities by bringing together resources of the five Eastern states to tackle major projects that will benefit the zone.
Senator Umeh stated this while addressing Journalists on National issues at Enugwu-Ukwu in Njikoka Council Area.
According to Senator Umeh, the Bill for the South East Development Commission presented by Senator Sam Anyawu and co-sponsored by all the Senators from the South East, was aimed at address the decay in infrastructural development in the South East geopolitical zone occasioned by the civil war.
Senator Umeh argued that the Federal government brought a Bill for the establishment of North East Development Commission due to the activities of Boko-Harm and recalled that the Federal government promised Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Recociliation to South East which never saw the light of the day, stating categorically that the activities of the Boko Haram in North East is nowhere close to that of the civil war in South East.
Giving an insight of the positive implications of the Commission on the South East region, Senator Umeh who is also the APGA candidate for Anambra Central Senatorial District in the next month General Elections revealed that one percent of Ecological fund available to Nigeria in its annual budget will be allocated to the Commission to combat issues of erosion menace and infrastructure in the region while the federal government will also be contributing the fifteen percent of the monthly allocation accruable to the five Eastern states to the Commission to boost funds at its disposal.
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