Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has alleged that he has been blacklisted from seeing President Muhammadu Buhari over his constant attacks.
Ortom made this on Tuesday when the outgoing UNICEF Chief Field Officer in Nigeria, Ibrahim Conteh, paid him a farewell visit.
The governor has persistently criticised President Buhari over the insecurity in the nation.
Speaking at the event, Ortom said the country doesn’t have a leader.
He claimed that he had made several attempts to meet with the president but was blocked.
On his part, Conteh said the UNICEF has provided over two thousand boreholes to communities in eight local government areas of the state.
The UNICEF Chief Field Officer who is moving to Afghanistan stated that the UN Agency has gone a step further to connect the boreholes to primary health care centres and primary schools in the communities and assured that they would also undertake rehabilitation of the boreholes.
According to Dr Conteh, UNICEF has also expended about one million dollars to provide temporary learning centres in IDPs across the state as well as partnered the ministry of education to ensure that children were enrolled in schools.
He commended Governor Samuel Ortom for always providing the needed counterpart funding to make the work of UNICEF easier as well as consistently feeding the IDPs to ensure that children living in the camps are not malnourished.
