Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the Economic Community of West Africa States, ECOWAS Commission, Babatunde Nurudeen has said that political instability was a leading cause for irregular migration among citizens in West Africa.
He made this known in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom state during the fourth UNHCR-ECOWAS Ambassadors’ retreat with the theme “Mixed Flows and Durable Solutions in the ECOWAS Region”.
According to Nurudeen, of all the diverse factors that drive mixed flows conventionally, political instability is the major factor that had led to the flow of migrants in the West African sub-region.
The Envoy explained that the political architecture in Member States was responsible for several agitations against marginalisation and sit-tight syndrome of some political leaders which eventually led to incessant outbreaks of conflicts.
