Tag: Obiakor

UN appoints Nigeria’s Obiakor special investigator for Burundians’ killings

Jan 17, 2018

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by

Ediri Oyibo

in Africa, Nigeria, World

The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, has appointed retired Lt.-Gen. Chikadibia Obiakor of Nigeria to lead a special investigation into the killing of some Burundian refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Mr Stephane Dujarric, Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General in New York announced this in a statement issued in New…