UN Secretary General reiterates commitment to victims welfare

The United Nations Secretary General, Mr Antonio Guterres has reiterated UN’s commitment to ensure the  welfare of Boko Haram victims and Internally Displaced Person in the North-East of Nigeria remains a top priority.

The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres stated this when he landed in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, North East of Nigeria.

The UN Chief Scribe who is on a-2 day official visit to Nigeria is expected to officiate a wreath-laying ceremony for victims of the 2011 bombing at the U.N. house, in Abuja Nigeria.

The Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum, who briefed Guterres on the humanitarian crisis in that region, explained that the IDPs had stayed for several years in camps and were eager to return to their homes that are yet to be reconstructed.
He used the occasion to call on UN for more support in the ongoing rehabilitation, reconstruction and resettlement of the IDPs.

Mr Guterres had earlier visited Senegal and Niger Republic all in the West African region.

Nigeria is the third country in the region to be officially visited since he took over the leadership of the United Nations.

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