Representative Deputy Speaker Agrees To Head Up Campaign Against South East Insecurity

The deputy speaker and member for the Bende federal constituency, Rt Hon. Benjamin Kalu, has declared that he will spearhead the effort to find answers to the South East’s insecurity from the front lines.

“So, those who are seeking for political leadership should go ahead; those who want to lead in the mist of the trouble should also go ahead,” he maintained.

Kalu made the explanation while speaking to newsmen, few days after the inauguration of his brainchild, Peace In South East- Project in Bende, the headquarters of Bende local government.

He said one of the disturbing dimensions of the challenge is the observation of sit-at-home in the region every Monday to protest the detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

According to him, observation of the order has been causing incalculable setbacks and damage to the economy of the region and by extention affecting the Gross Domestic Product of the entire country.

“So, it calls for a concern expecially when the impact of what is happening in the geo-economic region has a ripple effect across the other regions of the country.”

The second term lawmaker argued that it would be abnormal for a South East leader to keep quite over the develoment as it is seriously down-grading the achivements of President Bola Tinubu in the region.

Kalu, therefore, explained that it was his concern for the “hydraheaded problem of insecurity in the region” that gave birth to the project which was inaugurated last December 29.

He clarified that the project’s goal is to find a win-win situation and a dialogue rather than a quick fix to the problem, and that one of the strategies is to identify the underlying causes and take direct action against them.