The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, on Tuesday
said the Federal Government had begun the process of appointing new set of
ambassadors to represent Nigeria in various countries of the world.
Onyeama stated this at a news conference to mark one year
anniversary of President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration.
The minister explained that the reason for the delay in
their appointment was that the current administration wanted to do a thorough
job to ensure that very competent hands were sent out.
He said: “It is a work in progress.
“It is being done and may be in short time, we will have the
list of ambassadors going to various countries.
“Sometimes, it is on the approach of getting the best hands.
“So we want to be very clear of the ones we send out to
represent the country, we want to be sure we have representations that will
reflect real vision of this government.”
Onyeama said government was set to implement all the
agreements signed with various countries to achieve the goal of signing such
pacts.
Onyeama said government had set up an inter-ministerial
committee to work on them, to ensure effective implementation of the agreement.
He said: “So far, what we have done is to set up
inter-ministerial committee and identified all the follow up actions and set up
timeline for them.”
The minister added that government had identified the
Ministries, Departments and Agencies that would be responsible for different
aspects of what was required in the agreement.
“That is a very concrete follow up mechanism put in place to
actualise the agreements,” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that 26 non-career
ambassadors and ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary on tour of duty
abroad were recalled in June 2015
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