By Sunny Anderson Osiebe...
The
Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on the Humanitarian Crisis in the North East
has vowed to unravel the massive corruption allegedly perpetrated by
public officials saddled with the
management of the North East humanitarian crisis.
Chairman
of the ad-hoc committee, Senator Shehu Sani disclosed this in Maiduguri
during a courtesy visit to Governor Kashim Shettima after
the panel arrived Borno on
Friday to meet with state and local leaders, conduct
interviews with domestic and international stakeholders in the
humanitarian community, and receive testimony from internally displaced
persons (IDPs) in camps.
The
Ad-Hoc Committee, was inaugurated by the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar
Bukola Saraki, in October, following reports of alleged mismanagement
of scarce resources by those in
charge of managing the North East crisis.
Speaking on the work of the Committee on Saturday,
the Senate President,
Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, commended the persistence of the Senators
to complete their investigation, stating that their recommendations will
be used to promote accountability and oversight in Nigeria’s efforts to
rehabilitate the insurgency-ravaged North-East
zone of the country.
“I
have seen firsthand the work that needs to be done in the region,”
Saraki said, “Now, with the institutional backing of the Senate, we can
finally conclude on how best to manage
the crisis as we partner with local and international actors.”
The
Senate President stated that he was hopeful that the report of the
Ad-Hoc Committee will be submitted before the year’s end, so that
Nigeria can go into 2017 with an oversight
strategy to monitor the government's humanitarian intervention scheme.
Earlier this month, President Muhammadu Buhari flagged off the Presidential Committee on the North East Initiative (PCNI). PCNI is the organization
now responsible for the overall coordination and management of the government's response in the North East.
“Time
is not on our side,” Saraki said, “Each day that we do not get it right
in the North East, hundreds of people's lives are put at risk— many of
them children. This is why
we are eager to get a strategic framework in place that ensures
transparency, accountability and the effective management of the
crisis.”
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