• Deputy Speaker making Nigeria proud globally, says media aide
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has intensified talks with President Bola Tinubu towards ensuring the release of the incarcerated leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, soon.
Also Kalu has been described as very outstanding in his job, making Nigerians proud in national and international assignments.
Fielding questions, yesterday, from the Flow FM, Umuahia, Abia State, programme, “Ben Kalu’s Mandate,” monitored by The Guardian, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Deputy Speaker, Livinus Nwabughogu, said that all the assignments given to Kalu have been handled with utmost care, stressing that he was not resting until the IPOB leader is released from the Department of State Services (DSS) detention and freed.
According to him, the Deputy Speaker has made several visits to the President, talking with him to free Kanu, expressing optimism that it would be realised soon. He urged the South East people to have patience and maintain peace.
He said: “On Nnamdi Kanu, the Deputy Speaker has met with the President many times. He is working hard. Tinubu likes the South East. We are grateful to him. He is working towards Kanu’s release.”
Nwabughogu noted that the Deputy Speaker, who represents Bende Federal Constituency in Abia State, was at the United Kingdom Congress few days before he travelled to attend the 148th session of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU), along with the Senate President, Godswill Apkabio, to Switzerland, adding that he was scheduled to address the sessions.
He said: “ Kalu is making Nigeria proud globally. In any month, there is action. There is action on the ground. Something is going on. He is not shying away from it.”
The media aide disclosed that the Deputy Speaker has successfully held a capacity building programme for members of his staff, which saw in attendance the two former Deputy Speakers, Emeka Ihedioha and Wasi, adding that appointment letters were issued to consultants attached to his office.
On the Peace Initiative for South East-Project (PISE-P), which he initiated and launched last December, he informed that it would be taken round the five South East states (Imo, Abia, Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi).
Nwabughogu said that Kalu was instrumental to the appointment of the Deputy Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Martins Azubuike, as a Commissioner representing South East in the Federal Capital Territory Commission and the current Commissioner representing Abia State in the National Population Commission (NPC), among others, promising to engage more.
