President Muhammadu Buhari missed a very important event on Boko Haram and internally displaced persons, IDPs, and was also prevented from meeting with Pope Francis because he was not properly briefed by the Nigerian UN mission staff.
The Pope delivered a speech at the General Assembly in New York on Friday at 10am. Buhari also came in late for the meeting because of untidy arrangements, and erroneously took a wrong gate rather than the one reserved for presidents and heads of state. He was subsequently prevented from seeing the Catholic pontiff by security operatives because of his late arrival.
Buhari came in while other presidents and heads of government had already lined up to shake hands with the pope, and he was prevented by security operatives from joining in.? Presidency had sought to explain away the missed meeting as not being part of the official events lined up for the president.
“The meeting at which Nigeria was reportedly absent was not one of the official events of the United Nations for which President Muhammadu Buhari and his modest delegation are in New York,” Garba Shehu, a presidential spokesman, had said. But not only was it an official event, the focus was on the Lake Chad Basin and the effects of insurgency in which Nigeria’s full participation was expected. The listed UN events had the item: “The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, will hold a side event on food security and humanitarian consequences of conflicts-driven displacement in the Lake Chad Basin region.”
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