Percy Onyeka
In an effort to provide catastrophe victims with prompt assistance, the federal government has obtained permission from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to establish humanitarian response centers across the nation, according to Dr. Betta Edu, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.
Speaking to state house reporters in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, following her meeting with Emirati government representatives at the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), she revealed that Nigeria had asked the UAE for help in addressing humanitarian crises brought on by insurgencies, especially in the Northeast, and in putting an end to the widespread poverty in some areas of the nation.
Edu stated that the UAE Red Crescent, which was equivalent to the Red Cross, was now ready to build a more resilient humanitarian response system across the country.
She said, “We have held a lot of interactions at different levels. Of course with the government of the UAE; that’s interacting with the Minister for Tolerance in the country, who happens to be a brother to the president. We spoke extensively about how we can work together to pull millions of managers out of poverty.
“We have had interactions with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) DG, who is one of our own. We have had interactions with the President of the Islamic Development Bank and it’s centered on humanitarian response and other poverty alleviation programmes that they can come in to support the country.”
The minister, who linked humanitarian crises and poverty in most parts of Nigeria to climate change, said that it had driven people to insurgencies and caused security problems in the country.
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She said the role of her ministry at the COP28 was, therefore, to “see how we can be part of the climate change adaptation, to get support to provide jobs for people to lift them out of poverty, to key into the Paris Agreement.”
Techrectory with Agency Report.
