Buhari Begs Rich Nations to Save Lake Chad

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Buhari Begs Rich Nations to Save Lake Chad


President Muhammadu Buhari has urged rich countries to do something urgent to save the Lake Chad from extinction, arising from the effects of climate change.
Receiving the Director-General of UNESCO, Ms Irina Bokova, in Abuja yesterday, Buhari warned that the failure to regenerate the Lake Chad would lead to another round of migration by the people living in the areas.
A statement by the Senior Special Assistant  to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Garba Shehu, said the president led seven ministers to an interactive meeting with the UNESCO chief.
Shehu said the president to the UNESCO chief that Nigeria and the other countries of the Lake Chad Basin lacked the billions of dollars required to channel water from the Congo Basin into the lake to check its rapid depletion.
Buhari told the visiting UNESCO chief that: “Those living in the Lake Chad region have suffered untold hardship and displacement because of the violence perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorists.
‘‘If there is no farming and fishing, they will dare the desert to migrate.
“Unless the developed countries make concerted efforts to complete the feasibility study, mobilise resources and technology to start the water transfer from the Congo Basin, the Lake Chad will dry up.
‘‘The people will go somewhere and they will create problems for those countries.”
The president also commended UNESCO for supporting  Nigeria particularly on the ongoing rehabilitation work in the North-east and reintegration of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
 He said the pathetic situation of IDPs required immediate and urgent response from international organisations such as UNSECO to provide infrastructure, health and education for the people in the area.
The UNESCO Director-General, Mrs. Bokova, who commenced a week-long visit to West and Central Africa on August 6, said she was in Nigeria to strengthen the organisations programme in the areas of science and technology, gender and youth development, culture, water resources development, health and environment.  

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