Nigeria, Nov. 24 -- The Managing Director/CEO of the South East Development Commission (SEDC), Mr. Mark Okoye, has insisted that the Southeast region is in dire need of investments, and not appeasement.

Okoye believes President Bola Tinubu does not owe the South East symbolic appeasement.

According to him, the President owes the Southeast, just as he owes every region, the commitments articulated in the Renewed Hope Agenda, including agricultural modernization, infrastructure expansion, job creation, industrialization, improved security, and strengthened regional collaboration.

Okoye gave his view in a reaction to the heightened media noise around the travails of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and the ...