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.”
