The Senator representing Enugu West Senatorial District, Senator Osita Ngwu has expressed sadness over what he described as unfair treatment of the South-East region by the Nigerian Government.
Ngwu, who spoke during the Senate Plenary, lamented that the zone is particularly neglected in the area of resource allocation for infrastructure.
While responding to a comment by another Senator who had observed that the South-West had lion’s share, Ngwu queried: “With due respect to Senator Wamako who said lion share to the South-West...when will South East even have lion's share in any particular project?
“Mr President, if this is an omission, it is an expensive omission. The South East cannot continually be treated the way Nigeria is treating the southeast.”
Providing further details he said no dam project in the South-East received a kobo as allocation by the current government.
“Let me give you an instance, out of the dams that were listed here on the south east, Ivo dam was last funded about 12 years ago, with a 5 billion naira spent on it, and it has been abandoned by Nigeria for the last 12 years
“I have written three letters to the Ministry of Water Resources. We have done everything possible to see if they can bring up Ivo Dam and here, a zone is allocated 66 billion, and the entire South at zero.
“What kind of omission is that, Mr President, we should do better than this,” he lamented.
NATIONAL POST reports that cries of marginalization have been fueling agitation for Biafra by separatist groups like the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB.