President Muhammadu Buhari has promised Nigeria’s continued support to international organisations working in the Northeast region of the country, who are providing humanitarian assistance to citizens impacted by long years of insurgency.
He made the promise in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, when he met with the Director-General of International Organization for Migration (IOM), Antonio Vitorino, on the margins of the 36th AU Summit.
Buhari, who assured IOM that the Federal Government would continue to partner with them to make their work more effective and efficient, lauded the organisation’s humanitarian activities in the Northeast and Northwest of the country.
The president, in a statement by his media aide, Garba Shehu, said their staff had often braced the difficult terrain to provide assistance to those in need.
He urged the international community not to neglect those living on the fringes of Lake Chad, who had lost their means of livelihood because of the impact of climate change and the monumental shrinking of Lake Chad from its original state.
