Photo: Dr Edu, right, Amb Ajayi, left, at the Nigeria House, The Hague.
Humanitarian Affairs Minister has made Nigeria proud abroad —Ambassador
Nigeria’s Ambassador to Netherlands, Dr. Eniola Ajayi, has said that Dr Betta Edu, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, has made Nigeria and the Tinubu administration proud while in the Netherlands.
Ajayi made this known when she received the Minister and her entourage to the Nigeria House in the Hague.
Ajayi described President Tinubu’s administration as a government that knows how to head-hunt and harvest intellectual professionals.
According to the envoy, Edu, like many others, is imbued with the Renewed Hope road-map on poverty alleviation and humanitarian challenges not only in Nigeria but on the continent of Africa.
The Envoy said the presentation of the Minister at the ‘Rabat Process Thematic Meeting’ On Migration, Youth, and Development clearly showed she is a round peg in a round hole.
She said that Edu spoke glowingly of President Tinubu’s policy framework on reducing Humanitarian crises and multi-dimensional Poverty in Nigeria and his efforts to tackle the causes from the tap root, which includes illegal migration among the youths.
According to her, “The government and people of Netherlands have confided in me how proud they were seeing the Minister addressing all issues raised one after the other; adding that they were impressed and had promised to spread the message.
“That is the Netherlands for you, they don’t pretend, they will spread the message as they see it either way, but in this case, they have told me how impressed they were with the Nigerian government over President Tinubu and Dr Edu’s efforts to curb illegal migration and reduce humanitarian and poverty crises in Nigeria.
“The Minister was smart and quick in uptake and able to articulate her position very clearly and firmly.
“It is really good to see how happy and impressed the government of the Netherlands and its people were.
“The Minister’s ability to grasp issues and articulate Nigeria’s position and explain all the giant strides and road map of President Tinubu’s administration to get youths gainfully employed in all parts of the Country was superlative.
“I do not doubt that Nigeria will have a tangible takeaway from the Rabat Process Meeting, that I have seen already”
Responding, Dr Edu thanked the Ambassador and her team for the warm reception accorded her and her entourage upon their arrival at Amsterdam and Hague, saying the Renewed Hope Hospitality was uncommon.
She said the Ambassador’s discipline and strict adherence to due process was worthy of emulation as the image carrier of Nigeria in the kingdom of Netherlands.
The Minister’s entourage included, the National Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Aliyu Ahmed Tijani, Amb Catherine Udida, Valentine Ezulu, Abubakar Suleiman, among others.
