Deji Elumoye in Abuja
The Secretary General of ECOWAS Parliament, Mr John Azumah, has said that 40 per cent of the total 70 million refugees in the world are drawn from the 16 West African nations with Boko Haram insurgency displacing 1.2 million Nigerians alone.
Azumah, who spoke Monday at the launch of the West African Parliamentary Press Corps in Abuja, attributed the high rate of refugees in the West African sub region to insurgency-triggered humanitarian crises.
According to him, humanitarian situations in the region are products of bad and unimaginative governance.
Painting the gloomy picture of the region on humanitarian crises and poverty level in his key note address read by the Director of Parliamentary Affairs and Research of the ECOWAS Parliament, Mr Bertin Someon, Azumah said in Nigeria alone, 2.1 million people are displaced by Boko Haram insurgency.
He expressed regret that despite the efforts being made in West Africa, the…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
