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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has said that a committee to rehabilitate infrastructure and resettle Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North-East sub-region will soon be formally inaugurated.

The committee is to be headed by the former Defence Minister, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd). The committee would also comprise Africa’s richest man and President of the Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Mohammed Aliko Dangote. General Danjuma also served in the same capacity in the Goodluck Jonathan administration.

Speaking at the State House, Abuja in response to a goodwill message delivered to him by a group, Women In Politics Forum (WIPF), Buhari announced that all forms of assistance and aid in this respect generated locally and from foreign countries as promised by the Group of Seven of Industrialized Countries (G-7), would be channeled through the committee when it is inaugurated.

He said he has compiled a list of damaged infrastructure, including schools and bridges, and handed it to the leaders of the G7 and the United States, adding: “I didn’t ask for a Kobo (in cash).