Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday said that the Federal Government will welcome a global partnership that would ensure a concerted and focused international response to the humanitarian crisis arising from the insurgency in the North-Eastern region of the country.
He made the remark while receiving members of the ONE campaign led by the international Rock Star artist Bono, and Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote and former UK Development Secretary Douglas Alexander, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
They were at the State House to discuss the possibilities of a global partnership to address the crisis through international advocacy.
In a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, Osinbajo noted that it was important that they came to offer some partnership.
He said: “This is great and we are pleased…Partnership is certainly the way to go.”
According to him, no matter how prepared a country could be, handling the kind of crisis in the North-East with two million displaced people including children, as a single country “would be irresponsible.”
He however said that a global partnership to address the situation should be coordinated and more focused on what is required to be done, for instance, in addressing the issue of malnourished children and not attempting to do too much things at once.
Speaking earlier the Irish born artist Bono said he has visited some of the IDPs and said “we want to be useful to you,”
He stressed that what he saw in the region was “deeply disturbing.”
Bono also commended the social investment programmes of the Buhari administration saying “we have heard of the incredible plans, the social investment funds,”
He said that the level of transparency already seen in the administration is very exciting and transforming.
The ONE campaign is an advocacy organization with more than seven million people around the world taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable diseases especially in Africa.
It has on its board people like Mo Ibrahim, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg among others. It was founded in 2004.