South-East
Governors on Sunday announced that they would meet with the Federal Government
over the various challenging the zone, especially the prolonged detention of
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
The
Governors made the disclosure while addressing journalists after their meeting
in Enugu.
Chairman of
the Forum, Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, listed the issues to be
discussed to include Kanu’s detention, as well as agitation for Biafra by the
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, the Movement for the Actualization of the
Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, among others.
The meeting
was attended by Governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Rochas Okorocha, Willie Obiano of
Enugu, Imo and Anambra, respectively.
According to
Umahi, “today, we discussed a number of issues, but let’s first announce to you
that our secretariat here in Enugu is now fully functional, so that if you have
a need to contact the South-East Governors Forum, you do that through our
secretariat. Fortunately it is also in government house Enugu.
“On the
issue of IPOB, MASSOB, Kanu’s detention, ecological problems of South East,
various water dams that have been abandoned in South East, our challenges of
power, our challenges of security, and other very many concerns of our people,
the South East governors today agreed to meet with the various and appropriate
authorities of federal presence to address these problems. We are very
committed to this and actions already started on these issues.”
He added
that they equally agreed “to meet with all stakeholders of South-East to
discuss and address all issues that are of interest to our people.
“We approved
economic committee of South-East governors and we have mandated then to
immediately meet and fashion out roadmap towards our economic integration and
this we will do in coming weeks so that they will present a road map for our
economic indices and development in our next meeting.”
(Daily Post)
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