Am happy the Federal House members used a voice vote to shout down the South-East Development Commission Bill (SEDCB). It goes a long way to justify our demand for Biafra and will win us more converts who will start seeing reason why we are demanding to be sperated from this injustice called Nigeria.
Bills for the development of Northern Nigeria can easily get passed since Kano State alone and Jigwa has more house members than South-East and South-South combined. While same bill for development of South- East gets shout down vote.
You want to borrow money to build railways but excludes South-East in the development, but included us in paying back the loan.
Majority of the funds to run this county comes from the oil wells of South-south and South- east, but it is the federal house members from the north that determines who get what. And they always find a way to manipulate things and give north a lion share.
Am happy that our bold push for Biafra is forcing our law makers to boldly demand for the development of South-East. Am equally happy that the northern law makers rejected the bill. It exposed the hypocritical nature in their one Nigeria crusade.
These things that are meant to hurt us is rather serving a positive purpose of bringing us together.
By: Peter Agba Kalu
