Tackle issues surrounding insurgency, ECOWAS tells Nigeria

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ECOWAS Parliament

By Fortune Abang

ECOWAS Parliament has appealed to Nigeria to put measures in place to address the issue that surround insurgency in the Northeast.

Mr Ibrahim Sadiq, Chairman, ECOWAS Parliament delegation to Northeast Nigeria, made the appeal when he presented the report on the fact finding mission to the region.

At the plenary on Friday in Abuja, he also urged the government to tackle issues that border on climate change to find solution to environmental challenges it posed.

He said although government made efforts to create access in the place to facilitate return of people to their homes; humanitarian challenges were enormous for those returning.

According to him, the biggest challenge in Gwoza; is the high number of people returning to the area, and they have no water, no toilet facilities and no rooms for them to sleep in.

“We saw the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) erecting a lot of tents, but because there is no road to Gwoza, a lot of…



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