– Agbakoba wants the government to repair the current Niger Bridge or build the Second Niger Bridge which has been abandoned
– The lawyer is also seeking the creation of two more states in the southeast region for the sake of political balance
– Agbakoba says the damages he is asking for, if granted, would be jointly shared by the current five states in the southeast region
Ex-Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) president Olisa Agbakoba has sued the federal government for a whopping N1trillion being damages for the neglect of the southeast region of the country.
The Guardian reports that the lawyer filed an application before a Federal High Court in Enugu in which he challenged the total neglect of the Southeast zone.
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Agbakoba said the sum of N1trillion that he is seeking as damages will be shared among the five Southeast states in the region.
Olisa Agbakoba says he wants FG to pay N1trillion that will be shared by states in the southeast region.
The report says the fundamental rights class action is before Justice A. R. Mohammed and was filed on behalf of Agbakoba and the Southeast zone on the grounds of discrimination, pursuant to Section 42 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
Agbakoba says there is total neglect of the geopolitical zone by the Federal Government, in terms of infrastructure and general federal presence.
He accused the FG of leaving the Niger Bridge to collapse.
He noted that failure to build the ‘Second Niger Bridge,’ is making him, the
He said it is also causing him worries about disaster of crossing the existing bridge.
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Agbakoba is also seeking an order directing the FG to swiftly create two additional states in the Southeast geopolitical zone.
According to him, such move would bring a balance with the seven states in the Northwest, thereby ending the discrimination against the Southeast zone both legislative representation, political and judicial appointments terms and not federal allocation accruing to the zone.
A date has yet to be fixed for the hearing of the application.
Meanwhile, ZENITHBLOG.com gathered that there is presently a hot battle between the southeast and the northeast for the job of David Babachir Lawal, the suspended secretary to the government of the federation.
Leading members of the ruling All Progressives Congress from the southeast have begun a race for the top job which they say the region deserves in order to bring a great sense of belonging within the federation to that part of the country.
Watch this ZENITHBLOG.com TV video of Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) speaking about the plight of the southeast after his court trial on Monday, March 20.
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