A critical appraisal of the legislative exploits of Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, Deputy Speaker of the HOR, would reveal an uncommon leadership pattern that tends to navigate through the complexities that define our collective setbacks as we lurch with staggering steps, towards nation building, in the recent decades.
An ingeniously designed pattern that tends to incorporate as well as embrace our unifying strengths as a nation, while dousing the inflammable divisiveness that often hide under the veil of religious intolerance, unhealthy ethnic mistrust and rivalry, as well as political differences.
When he emerged as the no. 6th citizen of the most populous black nation on earth, Nigeria, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu Deputy Speaker, HOR., saw the strategic need to resolve the lingering security challenges in his home region, the SouthEast, which had greatly compounded the socio-economic and political outcomes of decades of failed leadership.
Peace In The SouthEast Project, PISE-P, initiated by Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, Deputy Speaker, thus became the primed foundation on which to lay bare, the complex and conflicting variables matted into the Southeastern geopolitical landscape for decades.
To disentangle and resolve the complexities, in his quest to achieve peace in the SouthEast, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, Deputy Speaker, foresaw the inevitableness of the establishment of a constituted commission/agency, to generate policy-backed framework and also oversee the socio-economic and infrastructural revolution in the SouthEast, which will prepare the fertile ground for PISE-P to thrive.
The bill for the establishment of the SouthEast Development Commission, ably sponsored by the Deputy Speaker, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, was just recently passed unanimously by the Senate, signalling the final parliamentary stages of the bill, preparatory to its ratification and adoption by the National Assembly.
But the determination, constancy and persistence of our iconic representative, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu Deputy Speaker, knows no bounds as he keeps demonstrating the firm resolve to bring into alignment, all the conflicting and complex issues plaguing his beloved SouthEast.
To achieve this, the Committee For The Amendment Of The 1999 Constitution, deservedly chaired by non other than RT. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu Deputy Speaker, was duly inaugurated on the 26th of February 2024.
At last, the first symptomatic pangs announcing the rebirth of a better structured sovereign entity Nigeria, has finally begun.
Events got even more spirit-stirring when Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu Deputy Speaker, announced a 24 month timeline for the conclusion of the constitutional review exercise recently.
The good people of Bende Federal Constituency, the SouthEast region and indeed every Nigerian that ever yearned for the enthronement of true participatory democracy, must be clinking their champagne glasses in hearty toasts to celebrate the dawn of an era when phenomenal leaders like Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, Deputy Speaker of the HoR, showcases leadership style that satiates and rewards the people.
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