President Muhammadu Buhari Monday assured the international community that
\nhis administration was already implementing several people-oriented
\nprogrammes to meet the humanitarian needs of the over two million
\ninternally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
The President, who disclosed this at the High-Level Summit on \u201cAddressing
\nLarge Movements of Refugees and Migrants\u201d on the margins of the 71st
\nSession of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA71) in New York,
\nUnited States, said such intervention programmes include: the Presidential
\nIntervention Committee on Rehabilitation of the North-East; the Victims
\nSupport Fund; the Safe Schools Initiative and the proposed North-East
\nDevelopment Commission currently undergoing legislative process.<\/p>\n
President Buhari added that, \u201cwe are making concerted efforts to meet our
\ncitizens\u2019 immediate humanitarian needs by reducing their risk and
\nvulnerability and increasing their resilience through vocational training
\nand skills acquisition programmes, particularly for IDPs in camps.\u201d<\/p>\n
The President said any discourse on refugees and migrants in the case of
\nNigeria, \u201cwill be incomplete without reference to our internally displaced
\npersons, victims of Boko Haram\u2019s terrible atrocities,\u201d which also rendered
\n600,000 persons homeless in Nigeria\u2019s neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n
He noted that in order to find a lasting solution to this regional
\nchallenge, Nigeria in collaboration with the United Nations High
\nCommissioner for Refugees, recently hosted a regional conference on
\ndisplacement of persons within the framework of Regional Protection
\nDialogue on the Lake Chad Basin.<\/p>\n
At the global level, President Buhari said Nigeria has equally shown
\nappreciable concern on issues of global human mobility using such control
\ninstruments as the National Migration Policy; Labour Migration Policy;
\nTrafficking in Persons Prohibition Laws, and Nigeria Immigration and
\nNational Drug Law Enforcement Acts.<\/p>\n
The Nigerian leader condemned all new forms of racism, xenophobia and hate
\nideology targeted at \u201cundermining the considerable benefits that migration
\ncan deliver to global efficiency.\u201d He said such divisive tendencies only
\nlead to violence and avoidable loss of lives in a world that requires
\ncooperation, adding that \u201cglobalization should mean free movement of
\ngoods, services and people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nigeria, he said, \u201cbelieves that without deliberate and collective
\ncommitment and action, the issue of large movement of refugees and
\nmigrants may impede our aspirations toward achieving the Programme of
\nAction of the Cairo Agenda +20 and global determination to leave no one
\nbehind in the implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
\n(SDGs).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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