The House of Representatives, has passed bills seeking to establish a South-West Development Commission, South-East Development Commission, North Central Development Commission and a North-West Development Commission.
The SWDC bill is titled, ‘A Bill for an Act to Establish South–West Development Commission charged with Responsibility, among others, Manage Funds from Allocation of the Federation Account, including Donations and Gifts, to Receive and the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation of Roads, Houses and other Infrastructural Damages Suffered by the region and the Need to Tackle the Ecological Problems and any other Related Environmental or Developmental Challenges in the South West States; and for Related Matters.’
The SEDC proposal is titled, ‘A Bill for an Act to Establish the South-East Development Commission to Receive and Manage Funds from Allocation of the Federation for the Rehabilitation, serve as a Catalyst to Develop the Commercial Potentials of the South East, Address any Environmental or Developmental Challenges, Reconstruction and Reparation for Houses and Lost Businesses of Victims of the Civil War.
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The NCDC bill titled, ‘A Bill for an Act to Establish North Central Development Commission charged with Responsibility among other things to tackle the Ecological Problems and any other Related Environmental or Developmental Challenges in the North Central States, Receive and Manage Funds from Allocation of the Federation Account for the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation of Roads, Houses and Other Infrastructural damages suffered by the Region as a result of the effects of the Communal Crisis and for Related Matters.
The NWDC proposal is titled, ‘A Bill for an Act to Establish North–West Development Commission charged with the responsibility, among other things, to receive and Manage Fund from Allocation of the Federation Account and International Donors for the Settlement, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Roads, Houses and Business Premises Destroyed by Multinational Crisis as well as Tackling Literacy Level, Menace of poverty, Ecological Problems and any other Related Environmental or Developmental of Challenge in the North West State; and for Related Matters.’
All the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria will now have development commissions, as the Niger Delta Development Commission already exists for the oil-producing states in the South-South and some in the Southwest and South-East.
