Benue moves to restore peace to crisis areas

The Benue State government has drafted an agenda for a four-year strategic plan for peace building in all crisis areas of the state.

Director General of the Benue Peace and Reconciliation Commission, Josephine Habba, disclosed this to journalists at a one-day workshop in Makurdi.

Habba said the plan was part of 16 days of the World Peace Activism, which is held on November 25 and December 10, 2023, adding that the essence of the celebration was to bring together women who are the incubators of peace to brainstorm on how the state can achieve peace.

She noted that the theme for this year’s celebration, ‘unite and invest in preventing gender-based violence’ called for the urgent need for women to unite and invest in all ramifications to ensure that their children are not used as tools for violence.

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“When there is no peace, the women are most hurt and development is absent. So, we want a critical engagement with the women on what they think is the way forward to get peace back,” he said.