President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that a committee to rehabilitate infrastructure and resettle Internally Displaced Persons,IDPs in the North-East sub-region would soon be formally inaugurated.
The committee, to be led by billionaire and frontline statesman, Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd), would also include Africa’s foremost industrialist, Aliko Dangote.
A press statement, released late yesterday, by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the president spoke at the State House, Abuja, in response to a goodwill message delivered to him by a non governmental group, Women In Politics Forum, WIPF.
Buhari announced that all forms of assistance and aid in this respect generated locally and from foreign countries, as promised by the Group of Seven of Industrialized Countries (G7), would be channeled through the committee when it gets inaugurated.