The Honourable Minister of Water Resources and the Chairman, Council of Ministers, Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), Engr. Suleiman Adamu FNSE, FAEng. has stated that the time to reinvigorate and strengthen regional cooperation among Countries in the Lake Chad Basin for sustained peace, stability, and prosperity is now.
Engr. Adamu made this known at the First Annual International Forum on the development of Lake Chad region with the theme “Lake Chad Basin: Climate Change, Security, Resilience and Development Recovery” held on Monday, 11th April 2022 in Abuja.
He stressed that multiple threats facing Lake Chad region’s common heritage such as climate change impacts, volatile insecurity, endemic poverty, health pandemics, are not country-specific but are transboundary in nature.
The Chariman, LCBC, stated that the theme of the Meeting was apt as it focused on the…