General TY-DanjumaThe Chairman of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiative, retired General Theophilus Danjuma, has sympathized with the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) over the attack on its workers by Boko Haram insurgents.
Danjuma expressed his sympathy in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the Victim’s Support Fund, Alkasim Abdulkadir, in Abuja on Friday.
Danjuma, who is also the Chairman of VSF, said the attack on humanitarian NGOs who were in the North East to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) was shocking to all Nigerians.
“It is tragic that men and women who make great sacrifices to save the lives of starving and sick people in the North East have become the target of insurgent attacks,” he said.
He assured the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs that military presence would be beefed up around all humanitarian crisis centres.
Danjuma said that this would ensure a safer zone for providing food, medicine and nutritional help to those in need.
He wished the injured soldiers who protected the humanitarian convoy a quick recovery and extolled the gallantry of the soldiers for saving the lives of humanitarian workers. [myad]
