{"id":77565,"date":"2025-10-27T07:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77565"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:36:57","slug":"abuja-igbo-group-slams-sedc-over-inaction-demands-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/27\/abuja-igbo-group-slams-sedc-over-inaction-demands-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Igbo Group Slams SEDC Over Inaction, Demands Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"240\" data-end=\"309\"><strong data-start=\"311\" data-end=\"331\">By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"311\" data-end=\"331\">\n<p data-start=\"333\" data-end=\"605\">The Igbo Community Association (ICA), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter, has faulted the South-East Development Commission (SEDC) for poor performance and lack of visible progress since its establishment, accusing the agency of failing to meet public expectations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"607\" data-end=\"911\">In a statement jointly signed by its President-General, Engr. Ikenna Ellis-Ezenekwe, and Secretary-General, Mazi Emmanuel Chinwoke Onah, the group urged Igbo leaders and political representatives to show greater interest in the commission\u2019s operations to ensure accountability and transparency.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"913\" data-end=\"1219\">The ICA noted that the SEDC Bill, sponsored by Deputy Senate President Benjamin Kalu, was signed into law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu earlier this year, raising hopes for accelerated development in the South-East. However, six months later, the group said \u201cnothing tangible\u201d had been achieved.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1221\" data-end=\"1415\">\u201cThere are no visible signs of activity, projects, or meaningful engagement,\u201d the statement read, describing the commission\u2019s silence as disappointing for residents who had anticipated change.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1417\" data-end=\"1627\">The ICA also queried the silence of SEDC Managing Director Mark Okoye and Deputy Senate President Kalu, questioning whether the commission was \u201ccreated for real development or as a political arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1629\" data-end=\"1832\">\u201cIf funding is truly the challenge, why have these principal figures failed to communicate openly with the people?\u201d the group asked, demanding answers from the commission\u2019s leadership and stakeholders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola The Igbo Community Association (ICA), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter, has faulted the South-East Development Commission (SEDC) for poor performance and lack of visible progress since its establishment, accusing the agency of failing to meet public expectations. In a statement jointly signed by its President-General, Engr. Ikenna Ellis-Ezenekwe, and Secretary-General, Mazi Emmanuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77567,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77565\/revisions\/77567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}