The view of the current security challenges and insurgency in the country, most especially the North-East zone, the Nigeria Security and Civil Service Corps has fashioned out a soft approach of addressing the issue of Peaceful Resolution, the Corps has organized a two-day stakeholders dialogue of peace and development in North-East taking place at the Banquet Hall of theGombe State Government House.
The Summit brought together personalities from all spheres of life to look into the critical issues affecting the country, the causes and way forward in tackling the scourge of insurgency.
According to the Commandant General of the Corps, Dr. Ade Abolurin, it is better, though harder, to make peace than create a crisis, therefore the essence of the programme, he said, is to encourage dialogue instead of advocating for violence.
Considering the situation at hand, the Corps partnered with UNRC/UNDP to organise this programme to set a new agenda through which peace could be attained, progress could be advanced and people could meet to dialogue notwithstanding the historical and ethno-regional differences in a complex society such as Nigeria, said Abolurin.
He further stressed that crises these days have assumed different dimensions and the magnitude of global crises and uprisings have brought about methodologies of advocacy, strategy of conflict resolution, infiltration of new ideologies characterized by aggressiveness, extremism and fanatism.
Therefore, for sustainable development, rapid progress, tranquility and good governenace to take place, there must be peace initiaitve, peace building, peace moulding and dialogue for peaceful coexistence.
Dr. Abolurin reiterated that by the end of the Workshop, participants should be able to relate freely with one another unconditionally, imbibing the principle of ‘live and let live’ as ambassadors to new methodologies of attaining global peace.
Moreso, the Honorable Minister of Interior Comrade Abba Moro who represented Mr. President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, applauded the painstaking effort of the Corps for organising the programme with a view to restoring peace in the nation.
He stated that there could not have been anytime better than this considering the fact that Nigeria is campaining for peace and working torwards having credible elections come 2015.
Moro appreciated Abolurin and the Corps and all the stakeholders by saying that what Nigeria needed was peace through initiative and dialogue among the stakeholders.
Nigeria is our home and we do not have any other country to call ours, therefore there is no need for the bloodshed and destabilising of the nation through acts of terrorism and insurgency, said Moro.
