The International Human Rights Commission, based in Zurich, Switzerland, has nominated Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, for an International Humanitarian Service Award.
The commission will confer the award on the governor today, Friday, in Abuja as part of the symposium on International humanitarian law and armed conflicts in Africa.
In a statement issued in Owerri on Thursday by the state commissioner for Information and Strategy, Hon Declan Emelumba, he said that notification of the award was conveyed to Governor Uzodimma through a letter signed by Prof Rafal Marcin Wasik, the Secretary General of the commission and Dr Duru Hezekiah, Head of the Diplomatic Mission in Nigeria, which disclosed that the award is in recognition of “the governor’s visionary leadership in humanitarian services ”
During his maiden visit to Nigeria, the commission explained that Uzodimma would be handed over the award personally by the secretary general, H E Prof Rafal Marcin Wasik.
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