Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Betta Edu has maintained that collaboration between her Ministry and the Ministry of Interior in the areas of Internal Security, Human Trafficking, and Migration would go a long way in tackling the root cause of the humanitarian crisis and poverty in the country.
The minister noted this on Tuesday when she paid a courtesy call to the Ministry of Interior Headquarters in Abuja adding that a strong synergy between her Ministry and the Interior Ministry will enable her to get the intelligence required to manage any humanitarian crisis.
According to a statement by her Special Adviser On Media and Publicity, Rasheed Olanrewaju Zubair, noted that Dr. Edu pointed out that there was the need to provide durable solutions to the crises, and for results, there must be inter-ministerial collaborations.
While identifying internal security, human Trafficking, and Migration as some of the factors that led to insecurity and by extension humanitarian crises, the minister stated that she was optimistic that synergy between the two Ministries would help in addressing some of these challenges.
“My new responsibilities focus on covering a greater population of vulnerable Nigerians, providing them with humanitarian services and alleviating their poverty in line with President Tinubu’s agenda.
“We need your support and we need it at all levels. The heads of security agencies will help to work with our team to gather intelligence on how people are moving in and out of our country.
“We need you to know the importance of our collaboration with you on the border. We have to find ways to step up our intelligence in Nigeria, we have too many illegal borders”
On social intervention, the Minister stated that the expansion of the social register will be extended to the next servicemen and widows of paramilitary organizations whose husbands have died in the cause of active service, adding that inmates of the Nigeria Correctional Services will also be captured and benefit from the skill acquisition programs of her Ministry.
Responding, the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo commended Dr Edu for the Renewed Hope collaboration she sought from his Ministry.
According to the Minister, the interministerial Committee headed by the two permanent secretaries in the two Ministries will work out modalities that will strengthen the focus of their agenda.
He described as heartwarming and a welcome development, the Humanitarian Minister’s offers to train the inmates of the Correctional services in skills
