The governor of Niger state, Dr Mu’azu? Babangida Aliyu, will next Wednesday inaugurate a 76-member peace building committee aimed at building servant/leadership virtues, arbitration and dispute resolution to enhance peace in the state.
In a press release issued yesterday by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mallam Danladi Ndayebo, the committee which would be inaugurated at the Baguet Hall of Government House is to be chaired by a Minna-based legal practitioner, Mr Abraham Yisa, while the chief of staff, Government House, Prof. Mohammed K Yahaya, will head the secretariat.
The committee has its terms of reference to include creating awareness on the social, economic and political potentials as well as the challenges facing the state and the people of the state.
According to the statement, the committee is also charged with the responsibility of engaging experts from the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP), West Africa Network on Peace Building (WANEP) and other relevant organisations to further discussions aimed at integration and cohesion.
It stated also that the committee would evolve enduring and acceptable democratic culture and design mechanism for discussion and integration at the local government levels.
“In building a solid and potent systemic structure of peace building in line with the vision 3:20:20 of the government; the committee would be expected to integrate issues like election, media challenges, youth empowerment, rural-urban migration and security,” the statement added.
It went further to state that the government of Governor Aliyu recognised the fact that the vision of making the state one of the three top economies by the year 2020 was dependent on a peaceful co-existence of the citizens. The statement disclosed that the committee was expected to report to the government fortnightly.