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JIFORM urges Tinubu to create ministry for diaspora, migration engagements
JIFORM urges Tinubu to create ministry for diaspora, migration engagements
Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM) has called on President Bola Tinubu to create a separate ministry for diaspora and migration engagements.
JIFORM made the call in a goodwill message signed by its President, Dr Ajibola Abayomi, to the nation’s 16th President, and issued to newsmen in Abuja on Monday.
Abayomi pleaded with the president to ensure a proper decent job negotiation for Nigerians across the globe, to reduce the incidences of irregular migration and human trafficking.
He emphasised the need for the creation of the ministry, saying it was long overdue, given the gains from human capital migration to the nation’s economy.
The JIFORM president recalled that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in April, acknowledged that from 2015 till date, the Nigerians in diaspora had remitted over $16 billion in the last eight years.
He quoted CBN as saying that this had sustained Nigeria’s ranking as the highest earner in the entire Sub-sahara Africa.
In his words, “We greet President Bola Tinubu as he ushers Nigeria into a new era.
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“With his excellent track records as an achiever, there is no doubt that he would improve the well-being of the nation by tapping from the rare human resources that abound in the Diaspora.
“Mr President, please make the creation of the Ministry of Diaspora as one of your priorities.”
Abayomi cautioned that the said ministry should not be seen as a duplication of the Foreign Affairs ministry, but as necessary attention to boost migration and human capital development.
He pledged the loyalty of JIFORM to Tinubu’s administration, stressing that he could count on the association to tame the daunting challenges ahead of the president, expressing optimism that Nigeria shall overcome all of them.
JIFORM’s president also said that the association was available either by his service or request anytime, to earn the country an enviable status among the comity of nations on migration matters.
Abayomi disclosed that apart from initiating a series of capacity building on migration issues in West Africa and the annual African Migration Summit, the fourth JIFORM Global Migration Summit would hold in Toronto between Oct. 2 and 14.
He stated that in November 2022, JIFORM organised the intercontinental migration summit in partnership with the City University, New York City in Brooklyn and a national migration summit on Feb. 9, this year in Lagos.
He said that the association had recently facilitated a workshop supported by the Nigerian-German Centre for Job, Migration and Re-integration for Nigerian journalists on sensitisation strategies against irregular migration in Abuja between May 22-23 in Abuja.
