Dialogue Can End 70% Of North Central Security Challenges – Presidential Aide

Senior peculiar adjunct to the President connected Community Engagement (North Central), Dr Abiodun Essiet, has said astir 70 per cent of information challenges successful the portion tin beryllium resolved done non-kinetic means anchored connected communities.

She made the assertion yesterday astatine the grooming for stakeholders successful the North Central portion astatine the State House, Abuja.

Essiet said, “From our analysis, astir 70 percent of the information challenges successful the North Central tin beryllium addressed done dialogue, reconciliation, quality sharing and assemblage engagement, alternatively than unit alone.”

Recalling the June 5 motorboat of the Presidential Community Engagement Peace Initiative (PCEPI) successful Jos, Plateau State, Essiet said, “The lawsuit was a important measurement successful our corporate travel toward fostering unity, strengthening societal cohesion and empowering communities to instrumentality ownership of their bid processes.”

She said successful enactment with Nigeria’s implementation of United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations, her bureau is partnering with the International Communities Organisation (ICO) connected a task titled, “Promoting Community Peace and Strengthening Social Cohesion successful North Central Nigeria.”

At the bosom of the effort, Essiet said, is simply a grassroots web that leaves nary section authorities country (LGA) behind.

The grooming featured sessions connected Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution, Conflict Dynamics and Community Engagement and Intelligence Gathering for Peace, alongside authorities breakout SWOT sessions to representation risks, stakeholders and interventions.

The commandant-general of the Nigerian Forest Security Service (NFSS), Ambassador Joshua Osatimehin Wole, said Nigeria has 1,129 wood reserves, with 174 successful the NorthCentral.

He called for tighter inter-agency practice and effectual wood control, identifying Niger, Kwara and Benue arsenic epicentres requiring enhanced surveillance.

The manager of the MacArthur Foundation, Kole Shettima, underlined the centrality of stableness to development: “Unless determination is peace, you cannot bash what you privation to do. Peace is indispensable and paramount,” helium said, urging the National Assembly to fortify accepted institutions. We person to look historically astatine however our elders solved conflicts and larn from it.”

The task coordinator Jacob Alagbe said the programme brings state-level actors unneurotic to beforehand peaceful coexistence and societal cohesion, with outputs feeding into state-specific enactment plans.