The President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, said there was a need for peace, security, reconciliation and disarmament in Sierra Leone when he addressed that country’s parliament on Friday during a one-day official visit, news organisations reported.
Obasanjo, who received an enthusiastic welcome from thousands of Sierra Leoneans when he arrived in Freetown, also had a meeting with his counterpart, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.
Nigeria is withdrawing troops it deployed in Sierra Leone over the past few years as part of the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) and which will be replaced by a new UN peacekeeping force.
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