Acting President receive African Union AU, Peace and Security Council delegation

  

   Acting President Prof Yemi Osinbajo, has received an African Union AU, Peace and Security Council delegation and expressed satisfaction that the Lake Chad Basin neighbours were partnering to contain the Boko Haram Insurgency.

    Speaking at the reception, Osinbajo stated that, the countries in the Lake Chad Basin had worked together very well, dealing with the insurgency in the region and the consequent humanitarian crisis.

  Citing some of the progress already made by the Multi-National Joint Task Force set up to address insurgency in the region, the Acting President noted that unlike in the past when there were difficulties when the militaries of the four countries tried to work together, the Multi-National Joint Task Force has surmounted the challenges and had succeeded a great deal.

  However, he observed that the humanitarian consequences of the insurgency were compounded by deep poverty, making the costs of dealing with the situation “huge and enormous.”

   The Chairperson of the Peace and Security Council for the month of July, Amb. Bankole Adeoye, Nigeria’s Ambassador to Ethiopia and to the AU who led the delegation told the Acting President that the PSC delegation had visited the four countries in the Lake Chad Basin in the past five weeks and had specifically visited seven cities in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.