UN Names Nigerian Casualty in Haiti Quake
02.03.2010

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A Nigerian was among United Nations (UN) workers confirmed dead in the earthquake that devastated the Haitian capital on January 12, according to the latest UN staff fatality list.
The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quotes the updated list as listing Ms. Dede Yebovi Fadairo among the dead.


Fadairo was an Associate Report Writing Officer with the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
No further information was provided about the Nigerian on the MINUSTAH web site.
The UN building in Port-au-Prince, the Haiti capital, was brought down by the quake, described as the single largest disaster in the history of the UN.


The head of the UN Mission in Haiti and his deputy were among more than 90 personnel killed in the rubble.
There were 121 Nigerian police officers among the more than 9,000 UN military and police personnel in Haiti prior to the earthquake.
A UN official from Nigeria, Kayode Aderanti, had told NAN in New York a day after the quake devastated the south of the capital that the Nigerian police contingent did not record any fatality.


On Monday, John Holmes, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator in Haiti, told reporters that 92 UN staff had been confirmed killed with 44 unaccounted for.


MINUSTAH held a memorial service last Thursday in Port-au-Prince for staff members who had died in the earthquake.

Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe had told UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon that the country would be sending 50 people to Haiti to support humanitarian efforts.

The contingent, according to Maduekwe, will consist of doctors, nurses and engineers from the Technical Aid Corps

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