Monday, November 25

Violent Crimes: Osinbajo, Danjuma to Unveil New SCA Report

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and the Chairman, Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI), General T Y Danjuma

will on Thursday unveil the new Strategic Conflict Assessment (SCA) report that will provide security agencies and civilians vital information to curtail violent crimes across the country.

Also expected at the unveiling in Abuja, are the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, the Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara and experts in security architecture.

The Director General of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Prof. Oshita Oshita, in a statement signed by 

his Media Assistant, Micheal Abu, on Monday said the report will encourage good rapport between the security agents and civilians to curtail crimes across the country.

According Oshita, the development efforts of the government have progressively been undermined by preventable conflict disorders, causing distrust in the population, displacement even loss of lives. 

The DG said the report is a product of a nationwide study by researchers of the institute covering the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

He said: “Using field research methods, across the 6 geopolitical zones, the SCA identifies emerging trends and dynamics in insurgency, militancy, farmers-herders’ clashes, kidnapping for ransom, violent robberies, incidences of cultism and separatist agitations, among others, which have cumulative harmful consequences on national cohesion, social integration, stability, peace and security and sustainable development.”

It is against this backdrop that the federal government through IPCR, with the support of the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) and DFID-funded Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme (NSRP), deployed researchers to every state in the country to carryout specialized study in order to provide the Government and other stakeholders, information on the dynamics of dysfunctional conflicts in the country, he said.

The goal, Oshita said is to offer data and analyses that provide convenient entry points for mainstreaming peacebuilding and conflict-sensitivity in National Planning and Development Programming (NPDP) through proactive engagement of conflicts to stem their escalation.

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