As per Daily Post, the proposed commission goes for upgrading the infrastructural advancement of the South East zone, which is thinking about enormous biological difficulties.
The bill likewise looks to go about as an impetus for the improvement of the business possibilities of the zone.
The proposed enactment requires the simultaneousness of the House of Representatives to wind up a bill of the National Assembly, and the president's consent to end up a Law.
Supported by two southeast representatives, Stella Oduah (PDP-Anambra) and Samuel Anyanwu (PDP-IMO), the bill was first perused in the Senate on June 22, 2016.
Its section in the Red Chamber pursued the introduction of the report of the Committee on Establishment and Public Service by its previous Chairman, Sen. Emmanuel Paulker (PDP-Bayelsa).
After Paulker's introduction, the bill was viewed as provision by condition by the council of the entire, and alterations made by the legislators previously it was perused for the third time and in the long run, passed.
Talking, the Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, who directed at the sitting, recognized his partners for work well done.
"Each morning we implore that God should give us the effortlessness to do just those things that will advance the harmony and solidarity of this nation.
"I trust that we have demonstrated today that we are focused on the solidarity of this nation, and it is this solidarity that will give us confidence in this nation.
"This confidence will thusly assist us with pursuing harmony and advancement," he said.
Tending to newsmen after the whole, individuals from the South East Council of the Senate, driven by Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe (PDP-Abia), expressed gratitude toward their associates and individuals from the board of trustees for their endeavors.
Abaribe, who talked for the benefit of the assembly, asked the President to sign the bill into law "when we clean it up and convey to him, in light of a legitimate concern for the solidarity and advancement of Nigeria".
"This will put to rest the long-attracted disturbance the South East, and the challenges in the recovery and compromise endeavors that began toward the finish of the common war.
"Everything we see dependably will wind up at the arranging table, which is the thing that we have done," he said.
The legislator said he trusted the House of Representatives would offer simultaneousness to the bill as it went in the Senate.
Whenever set up, the South East Development Commission would be the third zonal interventionist body in the nation.
Right now, there is the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the North East Development Commission set up as of late.
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