NGO organises Interactive Forum Communities In Kaduna State

By Gambo Abubakar 

A  non government organization the  CLEEN FOUNDATION has organised a two day interaction workshop on community accountability forum for  Kujama, Kasuwar Magani and Maraba Rido communities in Chiku local government areas of Kaduna state.

While briefing the newsmen's recently in Kaduna, the program officer of CLEEN foundation, Mr Ebere Mbaegbu said, 

"the essence of this gathering is to promote the community accountability forum in the state, this idea was born by the early warning response project in Kaduna."

"With aims is to establish the early warning respondent structures members, so as to bring all the key stakeholders to move together for margin insecurity issues; banditry, kidnapping, religion Violence's and conflicts, it also a form for dialogue between community and the police".

Mr Ebere also noted that, the composition of the CAF meeting it helps to have a better solution to the communities. Adding that CAF is design to facilitate inter action among the security stakeholders and security agencies in order to have an effective environment."

He further note,the key principles of the program is to respect human right,including the right of women and the children, imbibing the democratic values, receiving and given feedback of complaints,  jointly discussing and deciding the best way to solve the problems.and recognising that neither the police nor the informal policing group alone can solve the communities problems."

One of the participants; Antoney Samari also the district head of Kujama, taxes the residents for being conscious and alerts for any  movement that don't understand and reported to the relevant authorities for further necessary action.

The other women participant, Juliana Emmanuel, a women leader Maraba Rico, also called on the government to equipped the security agencies with sophisticated weapons in order to compromise the bad eggs in be dwelling the our communities".

However, the Youth leader Kasuwar Magani, Auwal Mohd, commended the CLEEN foundation of organising this gathering, which he described as credible for reducing the menace of insecurity and other communities challenges.

The various stakeholders attended the program; women leaders, members of the Nigerian police, vigilante's, traditional rulers, youth leaders, members of CAN,JNI among others.