President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to the North East Development Commission (Establishment) Bill, 2017.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Sen Ita Enang, made this known inward a disceptation on Wednesday.
He noted that the committee had the mandate to have as well as create produce funds allocated yesteryear the Federal Government as well as international donor agencies for the resettlement, rehabilitation, integration as well as reconstruction of roads, houses as well as job organization premises of victims of insurgency.
He added that the Act would likewise assist inward tackling the menace of poverty as well as environmental challenges inward the North –East.
“It provides for offices of Chairman, Managing Director, Executive Director (Administration as well as Finance), Executive Director (Humanitarian Affairs), Executive Director (Operations) as well as members representing the North East Zone to locomote rotated with fellow member states of the commission.
“The committee volition with other things coordinate projects as well as programmes inside the Master Plan for the rehabilitation, resettlement, reconciliation, reconstruction as well as sustainable evolution of the North-East Zone.
“This volition locomote done inward the plain of infrastructure, human as well as social services, including wellness as well as nutrition, teaching as well as H2O supply, agriculture, wealth creation as well as job opportunities, urban as well as rural evolution as well as poverty alleviation.
“The committee volition likewise liaise with federal ministries, departments, agencies, states as well as evolution partners on implementation of all measures approved inward the Master Plan for stabilization as well as evolution of the North-East yesteryear the Federal Government.
“It volition as assess as well as study on whatever projection existence funded or carried out inward the North-East yesteryear whatever federal ministry, subdivision as well as way or society that has an understanding with the Federal Government, as well as ensure that funds released for such projects are properly utilised.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the mouth into law.
In a disceptation signed yesteryear the speaker, on Midweek inward Abuja, he commended the President’s 'sensitivity to the plight of the highly traumatised people of the North East'.
“I await that the expeditious coming into strength of the committee volition remedy the long years of underdevelopment suffered yesteryear the region.
“The recovery as well as redevelopment of the zone devastated yesteryear terrorism is expected to terminal decades,” Dogara said.
It volition locomote recalled that the North East Development Commission institution Bill was sponsored yesteryear the Speaker inward 2015.
He had likewise moved a motion which the House passed a resolution calling for the recovery, resettlement, as well as rebuilding of the violence-ravaged share as well as the convocation of an international donor conference for full reconstruction as well as rebuilding of the region.