Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade has expressed worries about the crisis in Cameroon, which led to the refugees fleeing to Nigeria.
He told Federal Commissioner of the Refugee Commission Mrs. Sadiya Umar-Farouq and Country Representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS High Commission for Refugees Antonio Canhandula that he was speaking as a human being and not as a governor.
He maintained that “in the video clips going round the world today, I think humanity is being debased and I think United Nations must sit up because what you are doing is medicine after death and is lip service”.
Flaying what he described as reactionary on the part of the Federal Government and the UN, Ayade said: “You cannot watch the dislocation of family structures, kids being separated from their parents, husbands separated from their wives and all you do is to rush with food to their corridors and create squatters and camp for them and you think that is United Nations? You have failed. What is united about that? There is nothing united, if we are indeed a United Nations, the issue on Cameroon should be at the forefront of UN today.”
Insisting that he was yet to see any serious issue being made out of the crisis on either Cable News Network (CNN) or British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the governor said: “Any form of relocation of a people, no matter how temporary is a failure of the world to address the issues that border on humanity and I think UN must take this message very clearly that it has gotten too involved in the politics of redistribution of wealth and has forgotten its essence which was peace, unity and love.”
|The Nation
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