Experts advocate poverty eradication, restructuring to resolve conflicts

He decried the continuous conflicts and violence committed across the country without a resolution in sight despite several efforts.

“The issue of peace within this conflict situation has been exacerbated by bad governance and young people readily being recruited into banditry, ritual killing and Yahoo yahoo, creating a lot of problems in Nigeria.” “According to sociologists, there is a thin line between poverty and conflict. If there is adverse poverty, people will go into crime and try to create a better situation for themselves. The issue of poverty eradication, education, and employing deserving people is important to peacebuilding. There should be pro-poor policy; unfortunately, the economic, political and social policies are all pro-elite.

Attah described the diversion of funds earmarked for vulnerable groups as ridiculous, stating that this worsened the challenges over the years. The don stated that since most of the conflicts arose from politics and ethnicity, there was a need for political and ethnic restructuring. He added, “While we have many political and ethnic generated conflicts, the 1999 constitution has compounded the problem such that the issues of violence in the North-East, South-East or Niger Delta.

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