Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday welcomed the offer of support from Ambassadors from several nations in the country regarding the rehabilitation programmes of the present administration.
According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, the Vice President spoke at a meeting in his office with some ambassadors, heads of mission and diplomats from the United States, Japan, Turkey, Canada, Australia and eight European nations.
He was said to have thanked the envoys and their countries for their attention to matters of the North-East.
He also thanked international bodies and agencies who have acted and expressed their wish to offer assistance to the country.
He said the issue of the rehabilitation of the North-East is a “matter close to the president’s heart,” adding that he himself is also very active in the overall coordination of the efforts.
According to him coordination of the rehabilitation plans is now the key issue while and expressing the expectation that the envoys would work with the Presidential Committee on the North-East, headed by General T.Y. Danjuma.
He explained that the PCNI is now the new overall structure President Muhammadu Buhari has put in place to coordinate the efforts.
He said the PCNI now encompasses the Presidential Initiative on the North East, which was the former body in place and the Victims Support Fund, headed by Danjuma as well as the Safe Schools Initiative formerly in the Ministry of Finance.
Osinbajo said his office would actively and directly be involved in overseeing the new structure in addition to his office’s responsibility to supervise the National Emergency Management Agency another active agency in the process.
The group of ambassadors called “Like-Minded Ambassadors on support for the North-East” was led to the meeting with the Vice President by the United States Ambassador, Mr. James Entwistle who expressed the interest of the international community to partner with the Federal Government in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the North East zone of the country destroyed by the Boko Haram insurgency.
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