We must learn to live together or perish together – Shettima 

Vice President Kashim Shettima on Friday known as for a united front in tackling the complex challenges of migration, poverty, and climate alternate, warning that failure to behave collectively could per chance consequence in elevated nationwide and regional instability.

Quoting civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., Shettima declared: “We must both learn to reside together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

The Vice President made the roar on Friday when he got a delegation from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), led by its Chief of Mission in Nigeria, Sharon Dimanche, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He wired that Nigeria’s migration and humanitarian challenges are deeply rooted in poverty, environmental degradation, and violent conflict, specifically within the North-East, North-West, and North-Central zones.

“There is an instantaneous correlation between climate alternate, insecurity, and compelled migration. You'd't separate the economy from the ecology in sub-Saharan Africa,” Shettima acknowledged.

He commended the IOM’s longstanding interventions in supporting displaced other folks and rebuilding livelihoods, noting his private historical previous of partnership with the organisation relationship abet to his time as Governor of Borno Express.

“I beg you to manufacture larger make stronger for the North Central and other disaster-inclined regions. We desire inclusive and pragmatic alternate choices that foster nationwide cohesion, promote gender empowerment, and reverse environmental destruction,” he added.

In her remarks, IOM Nigeria Chief of Mission, praised the Federal Govt’s dedication to responsible migration governance and anxiety preparedness. She effectively-known the number of Nigeria’s 36 states as both a issue and a possibility for tailor-made, impactful programmes.

“Since I arrived in Nigeria, I’ve been impressed by what I’ve viewed. Every dispute is completely different, it’s admire one Africa in a single country,” Dimanche acknowledged.

“We are specifically encouraged by the government’s launch of the Express Action Thought on Floods and the Framework for Anticipatory Action.”

She reaffirmed IOM’s dedication to supporting Nigeria’s sturdy alternate choices agenda by records, shelter provision, climate resilience, and early life empowerment initiatives.

Dimanche additionally proposed a joint initiative with the Vice President’s office to mobilise resources for sustainable, long-term alternate choices to displacement, migration management, and neighborhood pattern.

Both parties agreed on the need for deeper collaboration to manufacture certain migration turns actual into a managed opportunity as a substitute of a humanitarian disaster.