Interface with Tinubu administration to fix S/east issues – Speaker, Tajudeen to Igbos

Igbo leaders have been urged by House of Representatives Speaker Abbas Tajudeen to look for ways to communicate with the federal government in order to have their justifiable complaints heard.

At Bende, Abia State, Abbas spoke at the opening of the Peace in the South East Project, which was the idea of Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu.

He pointed out that the Southeast had suffered numerous losses as a result of agitations there, despite the region’s strong economy.

According to the Speaker, the prosperity and tranquilly in the Southeast inevitably reflected in the entirety of Nigeria.

“Continues to cripple daily life and significantly paralyse socio-economic endeavours, in a region whose people are renowned for their resourcefulness and economic enterprise,” Abbas bemoaned the wave of insecurity in a statement released by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Musa Krishi.

“The then Eastern region was regarded as the fastest-growing economy in Africa and Asia between 1956 and 1965,” Abbas stated. In fact, the South-East continues to be sub-Saharan Africa’s and Nigeria’s economic engine, leading the region in trade and commerce.

“Igbo people are renowned for being enterprising, resourceful, tactful, persistent, and peaceful—from Aba to Adamawa and Enugu to Europe. That is the nature of the Igbo people. That’s your identity. Aba, Onitsha, and Nnewi are three of your cities; they are among the most industrialised in Nigeria.

Igbo people own a substantial portion of the significant investments in several regions of Nigeria. It is beyond dispute that you have made significant economic contributions to Nigeria through imports, business ventures, and remittances from the diaspora, among other means.

“The Igbo have contributed to every aspect of human endeavour, including academia, the creative industry, literature, and many more, in addition to the economy.”