Youths in Angwan Rogo, Angwan Rukuba and Jenta Ademu, all in Jos North local government of Plateau State, have given the management of the University of Jos a condition that would? curb the recurring violence in the institution’s neighbourhood.
According to them the institution should offer them admission and gainful employment as a panacea to the problems in the state.
The three communities, which serve as a flashpoints areas in the state, made this assertion when the Centre for Conflict Management and Peace Studies, University of Jos, in collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Embassy, Abuja, organized a two-day community action peace advocacy visit to the communities.
Speaking at the event, the community head, Angwan Rogo, Mallam Abdullahi Maikano, appreciated the efforts of UniJos in conflict management and lamented that rumour mongers had tainted image of his community by giving the impression that no one went to the community and came out alive.
Mallam Maikano further called on the institution’s management to gainfully employ the youths as menial cleaners and grant admission to qualified ones to study in the school, emphasizing that unemployment and idleness were propellers to the crises in the state.
He said the insecurity in the place had worn out the residents and noted that “having security personnel around one is not peace; their mere presence frightens us.”
He pleaded with all stakeholders to be since in the state’s peace process.
At the Angwan Rukuba community, Evangelist Samuel Datiri explained that the youths involved in the crisis all came from the homes of their parents or guardians, and therefore cautioned the parents to pay more attention to their wards by monitoring their movements and choice of companions.
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