Southeast Nigeria Development Quagmire
Recently a bill for the establishment of the Southeast development commission was rejected by the house of representatives for carrying a divisive agenda. Sponsors of the bill maintain the law was intended to compensate the southeast aftermath of the civil war in 1970 as nothing has been done for the region since then, but pure neglect on the part of the FG. This bill helps to solve that problem and probably kill the increasing agitation of people of the southeast for their own sovereign state. There are arguments for and against this said bill, but the major aspect I will consider first is that it is going to be funded by the federal government. This is not a welcome development at all. I also want to ask a question before I continue on this topic. If every region in this country Nigeria gets a development commission, what is then the job of the states, the ministries, and government parastatals? This only brings to the fore the incessant call for the restructuring of Nigeri