Yobe monarchs trained on conflict resolution

The Yobe State University Centre for Research and Capacity Development on Humanitarian Studies and the North-east Regional Initiatives (NERI) have trained traditional rulers on ancestral ways of resolving conflicts without involving law enforcement bodies.

Leader of the centre, Dr Abubakar Kagu, stated this at a 3-day symposium organized for the traditional rulers in Gujba Local government area, in an effort to create cordial relationship amongst the returning Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in various communities.

Kagu said the symposium would re-awaken the traditional rulers on the importance of peace in a given society.

“There is gab identified in our administrative system. Local leadership has always been centre of solidarity and cohesion. We are trying to revive the methods of dispute resolution, the methods of dispute resolution which has been in existence long before,” he said.

He said it was paramount for any progressive society to value its culture and with reference at the time of need “Because, for anyone to know where he is going, he must know where he is coming from and must go back to the base.”

In a related development, the NERI in conjunction with Gujba local government has flagged off the clearing of the local government secretariat premises which has not been in use for four years due to Boko Haram insurgency.