Ex-Lawmaker Jika Okays Recruitment Of 253,000 Marshals For Peace-building In Bauchi

As portion of activities marking the 44th solemnisation of the International Day of Peace, a erstwhile lawmaker, Senator Haliru Jika, has thrown his value down the motorboat of the Safe2Lead Bauchi Initiative aimed astatine recruiting 253,000 marshals to enactment assemblage policing, supply intelligence, and fortify section bid architecture successful Bauchi State.

Jika, successful a statement, remarked that the inaugural reflects Bauchi’s condemnation that bid is not simply the lack of struggle but the beingness of justice, inclusion, and dignity.

Jika, who was Senator representing Bauchi Central senatorial territory successful the 9th National Assembly, further stated that the inaugural provides a holistic effect by combining organization reform, participatory governance, assemblage policing, younker engagement, and taste diplomacy into 1 integrated strategy.

He explained that the Marshals volition service arsenic the backbone of a citizen-driven information strategy successful 20 LGAs afloat engaged done the instauration of Community Reorientation Committees (CRCs) that springiness citizens a ceremonial level to dependable concerns, way development, and signifier section information responses.

“The inaugural places citizens astatine the bosom of governance reform, blending modern tools similar e-governance and anti-corruption systems with taste strengths specified arsenic festivals, practice diplomacy, and assemblage networks,” helium said.

“By doing so, Safe2Lead Bauchi ensures that bid is not imported, but built from within.This holistic attack straight supports Bauchi’s wider translation agenda, which includes occupation creation, cosmopolitan education, improved healthcare, renewable vigor access, and biology stewardship.”

The Program Director, Better Bauchi Initiative, Malam Haruna Ibrahim, stated that Safe2Lead Bauchi is astir giving citizens a existent involvement successful information and governance noting from Community Reorientation Committees (CRCs) successful each LGA to 253,000 Marshals connected the ground, the inaugural shows that bid is strongest erstwhile it is citizen-driven and locally owned.

The Program Director, Safer Nigeria Initiative, Victor Wilkinson Agih, stressed that the inaugural aligns with Nigeria’s broader information and governance priorities.

He added: “It demonstrates however states tin pb from the crushed up, putting citizens archetypal and showing that peacebuilding is not abstract — it is practical, measurable, and transformative. This is not conscionable astir preventing struggle — it is astir gathering an inclusive nine wherever peace, justice, and improvement reenforce 1 another.”