Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has cried out to the Federal Government to establish a special fund to compensate Igbo people over the destruction of lives and property during the civil war.

He said; “I think the debacles of the civil war led the south-east into a deep poverty level; houses were burnt down, people were killed.”

“Only recently, a special law was enacted as the North-East Development Commission, arising from the disaster of Boko Haram incidents. But the 30-month civil war that ended in 1970 left the south-east in a state of penury.”

“The South-East has suffered great injustice on how revenues accruing from the zone are shared.”

“Today, as it stands, the federal government takes home 52.68 per cent, state governments, 26.72 per cent, while the 774 local government areas take home 20.60 per cent.”

“Imo State currently has seven oil-producing companies but 43 oil wells were wrongfully allocated to Rivers.”

“25 percent of gas production in Bonny is piped from Imo State but revenue accruing from it does not go to the state while pollution is threatening the lives and assets of the residents of the area.”

“It should not just be about multi-billion-dollar pipeline projects that siphon oil and gas from the state which results to youth restiveness, quantum violence and subsequent deaths.”

“I think that God did not make mistake endowing Imo with natural resources.”