Details

The North-Central zone has remained the hotbed of ferocious conflicts including armed banditry, farmers’/herders’ clashes, kidnapping and violent extremism. The conflicts have led to a growing number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from several communities in the three most affected states of Benue, Nasarawa, and Plateau. The festering attacks are mostly linked to the inability of security agencies to muster the requisite personnel, equipment and strategies to address the problems. Similarly, the apparent lack of cooperation among stakeholders have hindered success in tackling insecurity. KAS’ intervention aims at expanding platforms to improve collaboration among personnel of the various security agencies on the one hand, and the cooperation between security agencies and civilian citizens on the other by fostering productive dialogue and partnership to tackle insecurity in the zone. The seminar which is a follow up to series of seminars organized in the last three years by KAS, also aims at promoting and strengthening synergy rather than unhealthy rivalry among security agencies and members of civil society. The seminar is part of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s support to the Security Sector Reform in Nigeria. This program is funded by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.