The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Jean-Claude Kassi Brou says the commission in collaboration with Nigerian Government will provide boreholes, rehabilitate damaged schools and health facilities in communities affected by insurgency in the Northeast.
The President, who was represented by Commissioner, Social Affairs and Gender, ECOWAS, Siga Jagne said this in Abuja at the symposium organised to commemorate the World Humanitarian Day with the theme: “Celebrating #Women Humanitarians”.
Brou said that the United Nations has rightly chosen the 2019 humanitarian day to honour women, who have acted as first responders to the darkest hour of crisis.
According to him, this year’s campaign on women humanitarians, support the recognition that women deserves a part in strengthening of global humanitarian response as well as in protection efforts under the international law.
The Director General, National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA Mustapha Maihaja said the day provides the opportunity to reflect on the risk associated with the provision of humanitarian services in the country.
