By Aisha Gambo

An NGO, Equal Access International, on Tuesday began a four-day capacity building workshop on community policing, organised for security personnel, community leaders, youth and women groups in Kaduna.

The training tagged, “Securing Nigeria communities”, was organized in collaboration with CLEEN Foundation.

Mr Gad Peter-Shamaki, Deputy Country Director of the organisation, said that the training was aimed at building synergy and cooperation between security agencies and communities in order to enhance peaceful coexistence.

“We are working currently in four states, Benue, Plateau, Kaduna and Kano, we intend to increase the participation of women and youth in peace and security.

“Also, to increase coordination, collaboration among security agencies especially on rights based approach on community policing.

“Our security agencies do not have all the time and resources to solve insecurity issues, therefore, every Nigerian must work with them to support the security process”, he said.

He explained that participants would be trained on early response, strategic communication, conflict analysis and planning within communities, in order to achieve peace and reduce pressure on security operatives.

Peter-Shamaki added that a community accountability forum would be formed at the end of the training, where traditional and youth leaders would continue to discuss issues related to security and how to address it.

Mr Ebere Mbaegbu, Programme Officer, CLEEN foundation said that the programme would sensitize security operatives and community members on how to work together to prevent and manage conflicts in their various communities.

He added that the training would address the issue of mistrust between community members and the police, especially on the wrong perception that the police lacked the capacity to address some emergencies.

“This will create an opportunity for police to know and understand their host community and how to help them better”, he said.(NAN)

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Reps want IGP to take over Sylvester Oromoni's case

Jude Egbas

December 7, 2021 3:58 PM

Federal lawmakers have also asked the federal ministry of education to set up guidelines for the operation of boarding schools across the country.

Sylvester Oromoni was allegedly bullied to death (Guardian)

Nigeria's federal House of Representatives has asked the Inspector General of Police Usman Baba, to take over the probe of Sylvester Oromoni’s death.

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Oromoni, 12, allegedly died from injuries suspected to have been inflicted by five of his school colleagues.

The Lagos State Police Command has launched an investigation into the incident, but federal lawmakers are demanding that the federal government steps in.

The lawmakers also directed the federal ministry of education to set up guidelines for the operation of boarding schools across the country.

“Some Nigerians on the social media space have been voicing out their bitter experiences with the boarding school system," offered Unyime Idem, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmaker from Akwa Ibom State.

“Social organisations have attacked the ministry of women affairs and the ministry of education over their silence and complexity on the several incidents of killings and abnormal behaviours in public schools across the country.

“The federal government should without delay, launch a national campaign. The campaign should include advocacy, public sensitisation and social mobilisation, as it will take the joint effort of government, school management and parents to curb ugly happenings in our schools,” he added.

Hon Babajide Obanikoro from Lagos said the students who allegedly molested Oromoni should be placed on a no-flight list.

“In this particular matter, there are five students involved. Their names should be placed on the no-flight list and the school, as shut down by the Lagos government, should remain shut until the investigations are over and the school is cleared of all these allegations,” he said.

The motion for federal authorities to take over the investigation was adopted, following a voice vote.

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