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  • CIPP Charges Bakumba Community To Embrace Crisis Management In Peace Building In Kogi

    CIPP Charges Bakumba Community To Embrace Crisis Management In Peace Building In Kogi

    From Noah Ocheni, Lokoja

    The people of Bakumba community in Lokoja local government area of Kogi state have been charged to Embrace Crisis management so as to sustain the existing peaceful coexistence in the community.

    The Community Initiatives to Promote Peace (CIPP) Chief of Party, Mercy corps, Mr. David Gatari gave the charge over the weekend at Bakumba Community’s annual Peace event held at their event centre.

    Gatari noted that the co – habitable nature of the Fulanis and Bassa people in the community has demonstrated the need for internal Crisis management than calling for government intervention.

    The Chief of Party who stressed the need for people to be their brothers keeper and stop fuelling crisis that could lead to loss of lives and destruction of property said such act hinders rural development.

    In his good will message, the Executive Director Pastoral Resolve, Alhaji Umar Dari Baba said one cannot rule out conflict in any given society but its early management will solve many of problems and setback in a community.

    The Executive Director called for peace resolution managers to sensitise the people to always engage in profitable activities for the socio-economic development of their area than engaging in criminality.

    He therefore advised parents in the community to brighten the future of their children by sending them to school adding that education is the bedrock of any nation.

    In his remarks, the programme manager, pastoral resolve, Muhammad Sanusi commended the Community Trust Building event under Community Initiatives to Promote Peace for their commitment in ensuring peaceful coexistence amongst people with different backgrounds in Bakumba community of Kogi state.

    In their seperate remarks, the Aguma (Bassa) of Bakumba, James Ododo and Seriki Fulani in Bakumba, Alhaji Muhammed Musa pointed out that their peaceful co – habitation is credited to the strong conflict resolution umpire in the community.

    They commended the CIPP/ Mercy corps for their love, commitment and encouragement to sustain the existing peace and renewal of confidence in the people of the community.

    Highlights of the event was the joints drama piece and cooking between the Bassa and Fulani people in the Bakumba community which was applauded by hundreds of participants devoid of their religion backgrounds.

  • CIPP Organised One Day Neighborhood Peace Promotion Workshop In Kano

    CIPP Organised One Day Neighborhood Peace Promotion Workshop In Kano

    By Jabiru Hassan, Kano.

    Community Initiative To Promote Peace (CIPP) has organised a one day peace Promotion Workshop to selected women groups in Kano where lasting measures that would leads to peaceful coexistence in the neighborhood were enumerated.

    The colourful event was held at girls secondary school Badawa in Kano metropolis under the leadership of Hajiya Zainab Ali Musa, where the gathering brought out the cause of violence in the society especially in communities with higher populations.

    Speaking at the workshop, the team leader Hajiya Zainab Ali Musa told the women groups that they were at Badawa to deliver a special message about the needs to ensure that peace and loving one another reigns in the societies especially at present when the population is rapidly increasing.

    She added that ” we are here to enlighten the public especially mothers about the needs to ensure that our children remained law abiding citizens in our communities as the situation in which we are living is facing many challenges like what we are witnessing at present”.

    Zainab Ali Musa disclosed that ” CIPP is working day and night to ensure that there is peace and unity in our societies, communities and neighborhoods where women as mothers must be brought into the programmes because mothers are important figures in the successful implementation of all peace Promotion projects”. She lamented.

    Other speakers include Hajiya Aisha Badawa and Madam Charity Mathew where they promised to work selflessy in taking the mission into their respective communities, while at the end of the workshop, some cause of violence were enumerated which includes drug abuse, poverty and having many out of school kids.