“We have some relationships at the state level, where we create twinning programmes where states agree on certain areas; that could lead to further stability between the two countries.”
The envoy said both countries co-existed peacefully and confirmed that about 10 million Nigerians live in Sudan while 12,000 Nigerian students were enrolled in different universities in the country.
The envoy also refuted the findings of a recent survey which indicted Sudan in the proliferation of small arms.
According to the 2014 Small Arms Survey carried out by Graduate Institute of International Development Studies in Geneva, stockpiles of the Sudanese Government were the primary source of weapons for non-state actors in Sudan and South Sudan.
He said: “One of our main efforts in Sudan is the collection of these small arms that definitely did not come from Sudan itself but from outside.
“We have got a department responsible for the collection of small arms in the states and they have penalties for offenders because this was what we suffered from in Darfur; people there used to attack the government like militias and these arms would make them grow
“Sudan has got its own problems so, trafficking of small arms is not in the books of Sudan.
He added that one of the major ways for Sudan to change the global perception of it was through the National African University in Sudan.
“We have students from 101 countries studying there and we haven’t heard from any of these countries that the students there are in anyway studying to be terrorists. (NAN)
