Nigerian
Senate President Challenges Africans On Continent’s Crisis
Obiora Ani, Abuja
Nigeria’s
Senate President, David Mark, has urged African Countries to
come together and work out a blueprint that would solve the
multifaceted problems affecting sustainable growth on the
continent.
Senator Mark
said this while receiving the President of the Senate of Sudan,
Ali Yahi Ya Abdullahi at the National Assembly, Abuja.
The Nigerian
Senate President said that the myriad of problems confronting
the continent could only be ameliorated if a common approach was
adopted.
The Challenge
He listed the
challenges as war, diseases, hunger and poverty which had denied
Africa the needed development.
Senator David
Mark stressed that it was only when Africans come together to
address their problems that the economic meltdown facing the
world could be solved.
Commendation
Earlier, the
visiting President of the Senate of Sudan, Abdullahi who doubles
as the current Chairman of Association of Senate and Shoora
Councils in Africa and Arab world (ASSECAA) thanked Nigeria for
helping to keep peace in the Sudan.
He said that but
for Nigeria, Sudan would have been wiped out because of the
unabating war urging the country to remain committed to the
cause of peace in Darfur. According to him, the end of the
crisis would be a credit to Nigeria.
Lake Nyos
In a related
development, the Nigerian Senate has urged the country’s
government and Cameroon to set up a Joint Commission to deal
with the problems emanating from the eruption of the lake Nyos.
This followed a
motion on the Impending disaster posed by the Lake Nyos located
in Cameroon, at the National Assembly, Abuja.
Early Warning
In proposing the
Motion, Senator Joseph Akaagerger, recalled the volcanic
eruption of Lake Nyos in 1986 which claimed over one thousand
seven hundred lives from asphyxiation congestion and re-stated
the scientific warnings on the imminent collapse of the lake.
VON Senate
Correspondent, Obiora Ani, reports that the Senate also urged
the Nigerian government to hasten the release of the amount
meant for the Kashimbilla buffer dam project which will contain
the flood waters from Lake Nyos.
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