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Save South East From Collapse, Okonjo-Iweala Tells Governors  

by Angela Nkwo- Akpolu
2 years ago
in Cover Stories, News
A picture taken on July 15, 2020, in Geneva shows Nigerian former Foreign and Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala smiling during a hearing before World Trade Organization 164 member states' representatives, as part of the application process to head the WTO as Director General. - South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee on February 5, 2021 abandoned her bid to become head of the WTOm, Seoul said, clearing the way for Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become the global body's first woman and first African director-general. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

A picture taken on July 15, 2020, in Geneva shows Nigerian former Foreign and Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala smiling during a hearing before World Trade Organization 164 member states' representatives, as part of the application process to head the WTO as Director General. - South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee on February 5, 2021 abandoned her bid to become head of the WTOm, Seoul said, clearing the way for Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become the global body's first woman and first African director-general. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Director-general of World Trade Centre, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has called on Southeast governors to eschew bitterness, and embrace togetherness to boost the economy of the region.

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Okonjo-Iweala made the call yesterday when she addressed stakeholders as the keynote speaker at the ongoing Southeast summit on economy and security in Owerri, the Imo State capital.

The WTO DG who joined the meeting via zoom, lamented that lack of unity among the governors but commended them for daring to change the narrative.

She said Igbo have high human resources even as a huge number is scattered across the world and excelling.

The former Nigerian finance minister called on the Southeast governors to convene an investment forum to examine the cause of blockages within the zone and how to address them, saying they should eschew bickering and work together.

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She also asked the governors to open discussions with pharmaceutical companies, and vaccine producers on how to create a market chain in the zone saying it can be achieved since power had been privatised.

The WTO boss further appealed to the governors to maximise the huge Ndigbo human resource to support professors to develop high-quality schools, and diaspora doctors to build quality hospitals saying all will bring people.

A former Senate President, Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, who was the chairman of the summit, lamented that the rising spate of insecurity may be a result of the inability of Igbo leaders to make a strong statement and define their position in the Biafran agitation.

 

He charged the Igbo leaders to engage the agitators in a robust discussion to find a lasting solution to the problem.

 

Anyim regretted that the once peaceful zone had turned into a war zone where safety was no longer guaranteed.

 

The Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe called for the restoration of Igbo values to drive economic goals.

 

Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo state welcomed his brother governors to the state and declared commitment to the Ndigbo cause.

 

Governors Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State, Alex Otti of Abia State, Peter Mbah of Enugu State, and Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State all declared their readiness to work for the unity and safety of Ndigbo and the zone.

 

On his part, founder of Zinox computers, Chief Leo-Stan Ekeh called for the release of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu saying it will help to reduce criminality in the zone masked as agitations.

 

The event was attended by serving ministers, national assembly members of the zone, traditional and religious leaders, and several others. The summit continues today.


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