Japan has spent $63.3m on humanitarian assistance in Northeastern Nigeria in 5 years

Japan has spent $63.3m on humanitarian assistance in Northeastern Nigeria in 5 years - Ambassador

- Japan has spent $63.3 million on humanitarian assistance in Northeastern Nigeria in the last five years

- According to the Japanese ambassador to Nigeria, Yutaka Kikuta, the country is committed to executing new and strengthening existing projects in the region

- Kikuta says the humanitarian assistance is important because of the security concern of the region

The Japanese ambassador to Nigeria, Yutaka Kikuta, has said the Japanese government has spent 63.3 million dollars in the northeast on humanitarian assistance in the last five years.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Kikuta disclosed this newsmen in Gombe on Tuesday, December 11, during a courtesy visit to the deputy governor of Gombe state, Charles Iliya.

Legit.ng gathers that the Japanese high commissioner was in Gombe on an inspection tour of the Japan-sponsored skill acquisition programmes in secondary schools.

The schools include: Government Science School Billiri, and Government Girls Secondary School, Doma.

The ambassador represented by his deputy, Shigeru Umetsu said the support from Japan to the region was necessitated by the effects of Boko Haram insurgency.

He said: “The Japanese Government has supported the North East region with 63.3 million dollars for humanitarian assistance. This is important because of the security concern of the region.

“We have been using other international organisations to execute programmes but the Japanese Government now wants to connect the people of the North East to Japan. Because of the security concerns in the past, we have not been able to visit.

“But since there is improvement, we are now committed to executing new and strengthening existing projects, in the region."

He emphasised that he was satisfied with the efforts of the government in the area of security, adding that he had spent over one year in the region.

Kikuta also said that he was in Gombe to monitor some Japanese projects in secondary schools aimed at building the capacities of youths, through entrepreneur to make them self-employed.

He said: “With our partnership with the state government and the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), we started the programme three months ago.

“So we are here to monitor the programme and see how to give some advice, so that the programme will be implemented successfully.

“The skills that the students are expected to get are basically on trade and entrepreneurship to equip them start up their businesses."

On his part, the deputy governor promised that government would give all necessary supports to ensure the successful implementation of the programme in the state.

The state commissioner of higher education, Dr Mohammed Wade, expressed confidence that the programme would improve the potential of youths to be self-reliant.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that Senator Ali Ndume of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Tuesday, November 20, identified insurgency, and not the lack of political will, as the factor hindering development in Northeast Nigeria.

Ndume, who is representing Borno South at the upper chamber, made this known in Abuja at its News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum.

The senator said that the acts of terror were making it impossible for contractors to move into the zone to execute developmental projects the government had approved.

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