The Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali says the challenges of the post-insurgency war in the North-East are huge, especially as they have to do with reconstructing the region and resettling the displaced people.
Dan-Ali made the remark on Thursday, February 23, in Abuja, when he declared open a round table organised by the Africa Media Roundtable Initiative on insurgency in the North-East.
Represented by Mrs Otuwe Iro, a Director in the Ministry of Defence, he called on youths and civil society organisations to play their roles in ensuring sustainable unity and peace in the country.
The minister expressed happiness that NGOs were concerned with challenges in the nation, including security posed by the terrorists and other criminal elements.
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While saying that the federal government was committed to peace, security and indivisibility of the country, he urged all Nigerians to refrain from acts that could breach security.
According to him, security is everybody’s business.
In a message to the occasion, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said his ministry had embarked on public enlightenment in mobilising Nigerians to support military effort in the North-East.
Mr Omoluabi Adeyemi, the Executive Director, Africa Media Roundtable Initiative and convener of the roundtable, stressed the need to change narrative of the war against insurgency.
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