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Nigeria is to get a single early warning body by the end of the year to head-off ethnically-motivated civil unrest that has, at times, gripped the country since the return to constitutional rule in 1998, ‘The Guardian’ newspaper reported on Monday.
The Lagos daily quoted the director of Conflict Prevention in the Presidency, Udenta O. Udenta as saying that government and the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution were thinking of setting up the unit in Abuja, the capital.
The body will have six coordinating zones in the geo-political areas of the country.
Udenta said the unit, which would comprise all peace promoting bodies, would examine conflict resolution and management from a “very broad perspective” and resolve the nation’s “festering ethnic unrest”.
Udenta added, “Broad, deep-rooted and deep-seated paradigms have been worked out to find a lasting solution and not just a temporary abatement.”
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