The South East Governors’ Forum has set up a 10 member committee to fashion out ways to integrate and boost economy of the zone.
The Chairman of the forum, Gov. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi, disclosed this  to newsmen in Enugu on Sunday at the end of its meeting.
Umahi said that the committee made up of two representatives each from the five states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo states in the zone, would present its report at the next meeting of the forum.

“We have mandated the committee to meet and fashion out road map towards our economic integration.
“This, the committee will do in coming weeks and present our economic indices and development route in our next meeting.

“We equally agreed to meet with all stakeholders in the zone to discuss and address all issues of interest to our people,” he said.
He said that the activities of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and others were also discussed.

“We discussed the issue of IPOB, MASSOB, Nnamdi Kanu’s detention, ecological problems of South East and various water dams that have been abandoned in the zone.

“Other challenges such as power, security and other very many concerns of our people were also discussed and we agreed to immediately meet with the various and appropriate authorities to address them,” he said.

Umahi said that the governors were committed to addressing the challenges and had already initiated action on them.
He said that the meeting was so crucial that they agreed to attend in persons instead of sending representations.

“To underscore the importance of this meeting, we decided to attend in our capacities as governors,” he said.

The chairman said that the secretariat of the forum in Enugu had become fully functional adding that the governors could be contacted through the secretariat at the government house in Enugu.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that all the governors in the zone except Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia,  could not attend because of delayed flight from Lagos.

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Impressive. This is a good way the southwest has set good example for other regions to follow like the Southeast and in the future,there will be healthy regional competition and tertiary integration of the regions on the long run and Nigerians will be better for it.

Sounds nice let's see what the group will come up with economicly to impose themselves. It seems the SE is done sleeping politicaly. First they get on the Transport ministers case now this. I have hope for them. Let's see how they use Kanu as political bargaining chip.

ecological problems of South East and various water dams that have been abandoned in the zone.

Would the ecological issues be erosion? The Water dams should be right up Buhari's alley since he wanted to build a few hundred dams.

“Other challenges such as power, security and other very many concerns of our people were also discussed and we agreed to immediately meet with the various and appropriate authorities to address them,” he said.

The power capacity will be solved. I know they will find ways to intice investors to tap in Natural gas projects like in Amanbra or coal projects. They got it if they aren't just flying to look busy.

Another waste of time.

On the issue IPOB, let there be positive outcome.
God bless SE.

God bless SS.