PRESIDENT BUHARI RECEIVES PANEL REPORT ON NIA 1B. President Muhammadu Buhari receives the panel report from the Chairman of the Panel, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe during the presentation of report of the Presidential Review panel on National Intelligence Agency (NIA) at the State House in Abuja.
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Ex-SGF, Kingibe, is Nigeria’s Special Envoy to Chad, Lake Chad Basin Region

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Erstwhile Vice-Presidential Candidate to the late Chief MKO Abiola, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, has been appointed as Special Envoy to Chad and the Lake Chad Basin Region by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Kingibe was also a one-time Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, announced this in a statement on Monday in Abuja that the appointment is of a “Cabinet rank status”.

He said the appointment of a Special Envoy by the President is also in consonance with the resolution of the Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission Member Countries on the situation in Chad on the 25th of May, 2021.

The statement emailed to Persecondnews, reads: “The Special Envoy will amongst others: Monitor developments in Chad and the Lake Chad Basin Region; aid reconciliation and seamless progress towards return to democratic rule at the end of the current Transitional Military Council’s rule.

“Collaborate with member Countries and partners in the region with similar initiatives to restore stability, promote peace and, security; and, Promote any other initiative ancillary to the restoration of peace and security in Chad, the North East Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin Region.

“President Buhari has by this appointment demonstrated the determination of Nigeria to lead regional security efforts that will stabilize the Lake Chad Basin Region, bring peace to Chad and ultimately eliminate the Boko Haram Insurgency in the North-East zone of Nigeria.

“This is also a fulfillment of the President’s promise to General Mahamat Deby Itno, the President of the Transitional Military Council of Chad, to support a seamless progress towards return to democratic rule, when he visited Nigeria in May, 2021.

“The Special Envoy, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe is an accomplished multi-lingual diplomat, who had at various times served the nation as Federal Permanent Secretary, Secretary to the Constituent Assembly, Cabinet Minister and Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

“He had also participated in previous Nigeria-led Chadian reconciliation talks (Kano 1 & II as well as Lagos 1 & II).”

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