The Igbo Think Tank Group, Aka Ikenga, has thanked President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly for the passage and presidential assent to the South East Development Commission Bill (SEDC).

The group in a statement issued on Thursday by its Director of Publicity, Collins Steve Ugwu, its President, Agbalanze Chike Madueke, said: “It is indeed a thing for noteworthy gratitude that finally, after 54 years of deliberate delays and barriers for a structured reconstruction of the South East region.

“Ravaged as it were by 30 months of Civil War, the swing of history fell upon President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to actualize the elusive process, with his salutary presidential signature making the bill an Act of law for real action.

“We are also proud and grateful to the entire members of the National Assembly for this significant support, the entire South East national legislators for their unique virtue of cohesion and quite deservedly, the Rt Hon. Benjamin Kalu, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, whose zest in leadership inspired the energy and charisma that saw us here and good.

“The Igbo nation’s socio-economic positiveness and the yearning for development without boundaries will be deployed to its fullest to ensure the success of the South East Development Commission which we hope will incorporate the Anioma areas going forward.

“The President and members of the National Assembly especially, South East members, can be assured that Aka Ikenga will be on its toes to monitor and add value to all further processes to enhance speed, competence and capacity in the running of the Commission, having taken five decades plus to achieve.”