Browsing: Lake Chad

The new Nigerian president, who promised to tackle the problem of climate change in his inaugural speech, has spun a compelling narrative on the disappearing Lake Chad, the environment around the Chad basin and how these have become the problem of the economy of the neighboring states through the failure of agriculture and joblessness which in turn have provided an easy recruitment into violent extremism

He said: “As a member of the Lake Chad Basin Commission Summit of Heads of State and Governments, the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has been giving maximum support to Lake Chad Basin Commission to ensure the discharge of its mandate in addition to funding the Lake Chad Basin Commission ordinary annual budget through the funding formula to which Nigeria contributes 40 per cent; Niger seven per cent; Libya 18 per cent; Chad 11 per cent; Cameroon 20 per cent; and Central African Republic four per cent

Usman, who disclosed this while speaking on the report of the Committee on Agriculture and Water Resources said Nigeria did not only neglect the sustenance of the important water body but also allowed indiscriminate construction of dams on five rivers which hitherto supplied water to Lake Chad