FG ASSURES OF RETURN OF REFUGEES TO THEIR ORIGINAL HOMES

"The Ministry is desirous of collaboration in order to pool strength together to lift the weakest by ensuring their safe return to their ancestral homes." Interior Affairs Minister, Tunji-Ojo 

The Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is not just to care for the strongest, but it is even more about the weakest which he said, 'that is what government is all about'.

This was the assertion of the Honourable Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo while playing host to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representative in Nigeria, Mr. Arjun Jain and his team who were on a courtesy visit to his office in Abuja, the Nigerian capital.

According to Tunji-Ojo, "the Ministry is desirous of collaboration in order to pool strength together to lift the weakest by ensuring their safe return to their ancestral homes."

The UNHCR Representative in Nigeria Arjun Jain, in his remarks, stated that, "there the is need for collaboration between Nigerian government and UNHCR to enable Nigerians that are scattered around the world as refugees due to the activities of Boko Haram insurgents to return back to the country."

He further explained that there are  over 120 million displaced people around the world out of which 3 percent are Nigerians while 108 are from Mali, Cameroon that lives in the Northern parts of the country.