The Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Ben Kalu, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to grant the South Easterners a seaport to enhance trade in the region.
Kalu made the request on Friday, in a speech at a reception held at the Enyimba International Stadium in honour of Tinubu after he had inaugurated some projects in Abia.
“Mr President, we want to thank you for what you are doing in our state through our governor and what you are doing around the south East.
“But I must say it is about time that we had another sea port in the South East;
South Easterners are mainly traders and
We need a sea port to enhance our trading.
“I also want to say that the destruction and the demolition of the houses, the offices of our brothers in Lagos makes our hearts bleed,” he said.
Kalu pleaded with the president to speak with the Lagos State governor to allow the Igbo people whose houses have not been destroyed already to regularize their documents.
He said that destruction at this time of hardship makes the hearts of victims bleed, stressing that the need for an amicable resolution rather than destruction of property.
Kalu said governance is about partnership hence the state must partner the federal government and the federal government must partner the state.
He said although he is an All Progressives Congress (APC) party member, it is his character to support the governors of his state to ensure the state succeeded and promised to support Alex Otti to succeed.
“I have gone with him from the morning, visiting all the projects till this evening and I have seen the state’s projects carried out by the governor and for that we commend him.
“But as a member and citizen of this state, I request, like Oliver Twist, that the governor should do more,” he said.
He thanked the president for his assistance in the projects in Abia and urged the Abia Information Commissioner and media houses in Abia to accord Tinubu his merited credits.
Kalu said this would induce the president to do more for the state and the South East which he had shown love to.
