The South-East economic and security summit: Another talk shop?, By Jideofor Adibe

Organised under the auspices of the South East Governors’ Forum, and held in Owerri, Imo state from September 28- 29 2023, its theme was,’.

The Abia State governor, Dr. Alex Otti, suggested engaging the youth with a view to locating the source of their anger. He also emphasized the need to fight the spate of drug abuse in the region. Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State charged South-East indigenes not to wait for all the problems to be solved by the governors before they can come to invest in the zone, adding that if they don’t stop seeing only gloom and doom “this place will be a desolate homeland.

Three, a very important theme in the Summit was the urge for the Igbo outside Igboland to come and invest in the region . This has been a recurring theme in the various South East Economic Summits. I will also recommend that the governors of the region create a new, jointly owned town along the lines of Abuja, with modern facilities and good security structures. This will satisfy the Igbo cultural reflex for the Diaspora and concomitantly attract the elite to turn it into

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