The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki,
has advised all humanitarian agencies and non-governmental organisations, NGOs,
operating in the North-East region of the country to always liaise with
government agencies to help ease administrative bottlenecks in the course of
their duties.
The Senate President, while
receiving the Executive Director of the World Food Programme, WFP, Ertharin
Cousin, who led other members of the organisation on a visit to the National
Assembly, urged humanitarian agencies to always collaborate with security
agencies to ensure their safety at every point during their stay in the
country.
While responding to comments by the
WFP Executive Director, Saraki said such collaboration with different levels of
governments in the country would help ease some of the administrative challenges
the NGOs may encounter in their line of duty, especially on security and
importation of their equipment.
Dr. Saraki also called for a
sustained humanitarian effort to address the challenges facing internally
displaced persons, IDPs in the North-east, while urging the WFP to help ensure
that the food crisis in the IDP camps are reduced.
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