NAIROBI, Kenya, May 8 – Nigeria’s Housing Minister, Ahmed Musa Dangiwa, has tasked members of the Executive Board of UN-Habitat to address human settlement challenges.
Dangiwa, who chairs the 2024 Executive Board Meeting currently underway in Nairobi, maintained that this is the surest way to tackle human settlements’ challenges in a structured and sustainable manner.
”We have a moral obligation to approach this duty with our best efforts, utmost sincerity, and the highest responsibility for the good of mankind. To this end, during my Chairmanship, I intend to pursue global collaboration in partnership with the various regional and political groups, and I would count on your support as I look forward to active engagement to bring this organization to its rightful footing,” he said.
Dangiwa, who doubles as Chair of the 2023 Annual General Meeting (AGM) Bureau of the Shelter Afrique Development Bank (ShafDB), asserted that it was imperative upon him to forge strategic alliances that are beneficial to actualizing the mandate of UN-Habitat.
The UN-Habitat Executive Board is a legislative body of UN-Habitat comprising 36 member states elected by the United Nations Habitat Assembly with 10 seats for Africa.
It convenes two or three times a year to oversee the implementation of the normative and operational activities of UN-Habitat.
