The Igbo Think Tank, a.k.a IKENGA has formally reacted and thanked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the entire National Assembly, for the passage, and now Presidential assent to the South East Development Commission Bill, SEDC made public on Wednesday.

In a release by the Director of Publicity of the Association, Collins Steve Ugwu, the President of AKA IKENGA, Agbalanze Chike Madueke said, “It is indeed a thing for note worthy gratitude that finally, after 54yrs of deliberate delays and barriers for a structured reconstruction of the South East region, ravaged as it were by 30 months of civil war, the swing of history fell upon President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to actualize the elusive process, with his salutary presidential signature making the bill an Act of law for real action.”

He stated further, we are also proud and grateful to the entire members of the National Assembly for this significant support, the entire South East national legislators for their unique virtue of cohesion and quite deservedly, the Rt Hon. Benjamin Kalu, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, whose zest in leadership inspired the energy and charisma that saw us here and good.”

Applauding Ndigbo generally for their patience and persistence, Dr Madueke emphasized that, the Igbo nation’s socio-economic positiveness and the yearning for development without boundaries will be deployed to its fullest to ensure the success of the SE Development Commission which we hope will incorporate the Anioma areas going forward.

The President and members of the National Assembly especially, South East members, can be assured that Aka Ikenga will be on its toes to monitor and add value to all further processes to enhance speed, competence and capacity in the running of the Commission, having taken five decades plus to achieve.