SEDC probe: Okorie accuses senate of acting in haste

From Jude Chinedu, Enugu
Prominent Igbo leader, Chief Chekwas Okorie, has criticised the Senate committee overseeing the South East Development Commission (SEDC), accusing it of acting in a haste and unfairly attacking the management of the commission barely months after it began receiving funding.
Okorie, who spoke with journalists in Enugu yesterday, said the committee’s recent public scrutiny of the commission amounted more to an inquisition and coercion than proper oversight.
He recalled that when President Tinubu inaugurated the commission in February 2025, he publicly commended the move, describing it as the first meaningful federal effort since the civil war to address reco...