Introduction
Community Peace and Safety Partnership (CPSP) is a project of the British council in Northern Nigeria in partnership with the Murmushi People’s Development Foundation (MPDF) with funding from the EU. This project by MPDF is being implemented in four LGAs, namely: Mubi North, Mubi South, Hong and Michika of Adamawa State.
The CPSP is made up of 25 persons who are major stakeholders representing strategic groups. The overall objective is to enhance participation of community-led intervention in resolving internal conflicts. This is to prevent escalation of tension and conflicts within the North east; restore security and stability in local communities by improving on the early warning-early response mechanism by bringing together major stakeholders to collaboratively act.
The CONSULTANCY undertakes monitoring of initiatives of the CPSP platforms to ensure that re-sults and lessons are collected and shared. Activities include:
- Follow-up visits to collect beneficiary feedback and evidence of results
- Facilitation of preparation of case studies and success stories
- Preparation of documents to be shared at Public events organized by the MCN Pro-gramme.
A. Clearing of congestion around the bus stop junction by Keke riders
Clearing of congestion around the bus stop junction by Keke riders, women selling on the roadside, and other traders harboring and causing congestion was reduced due to the sensiti-zation by the CPSP. This has brought total free movement and accident-free in the areas. This is achieved due to the intervention of the CPSP within the area sensitizing the riders and women on the dangers of creating congestion and selling on roads.
Dues to CPSP community have now taking it easy to solve issues without going to Police. The platform has created a sense of acceptability in dialogue of any kind thereby creating a lasting peace within the communities. The communities are looking up to the CPSP as solution cen-ter
Reckless Driving and Theft of Motorcycles (Hong)
A joint sensitization and awareness campaign was done by committee of the CPSP towards mitigation accidents due to reckless driving by the motor bikes, before the intervention of the CPSP we recorded 5-6 accidents daily “FRSC” but have now see reduction in number of acci-dents due to the intervention of CPSP. We have gathered more than 500 members of AC-COMORAN and sensitized them on dangers of reckless driving and create more awareness on road sign by the FRSC. 75% of our members now have adapted to the teachings and we record significant low accidents on daily basis compared to before
Mental illness of a school girl in Mubi South
The rehabilitation of a schoolgirl who has a mental illness and no one to look after her, was part of the success recorded by the CPSP platform in Mubi North LGA. The baby girl was abandoned in a cartont by the roadside and was found by an old woman on her way to the farm. The old woman has never given birth before, and she adopted the baby girl.
This baby girl was named Laria, she grew up with the old woman until she was in JSS 2 in Lo-kowa one secondary school, and the Head Girl of her school. As time goes on, laria became mentally sick and was going to wise bins picking things to eat and the old woman later died. After her death, her relatives tried to send Laria away from her property, they decided to de-tach the roof, doors, and windows living her all alone.
She suffered all the seasonal weather for some years. Luckily for her, a member of the CPSP called on the attention of Murmushi PDF during one of their CPSP monthly meetings. Mur-mushi took the intervention and was sending money to a lady called Maimuna to look after her. Later on, Murmushi decided to transfer her to Yola for medication. At last, she is now feeling better and was adopted by the ED of Murmushi who named her Laria Babagari Baraya. This is truly a sad story and a huge success brought by the CPSP
Farmer/herder clash
Farmer/herders conflict was one of the problems identified and solved by the CPSP platform. They had a series of dialogues between the two parties and they were able to identify some causes of the conflict which includes cattle routes, tribalism, lack of enough space for grassing, intolerance, etc. Among many of the causes, they feel there is a need for them to address the cattle route issues because it is one of the major problems leading to serious conflict between the farmers and the herders. The went together with the Emir of Michika, Sarki Shanu, a representative of Miyyetti Allah, and some Local Government representatives and identified the cattle routes and warn farmers not to farm on the part
Capacity Building
The lack of the necessary knowledge and skills in handling challenges faced by the community called for a need for capacity training. The members of CPSP requested for training to be carried out which will enable them to render optimum services, while carrying out their duties in bringing problems under control. The training will be diligently obtained, this will create more understanding and knowledge on a better way to approach and tackle issues affecting the communities
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The work of the CPSP brought the prevailing issues into the light, seeking practical solutions. The CPSP facilitated a meeting with the chairman of the trader’s union, (GAMZAKI) on an is-sue of payment of the market guardsmen which was overdue for 7 good months. Now the se-curities are being paid and are working without any issues
Security
“We have a series of leadership tussle among MIYETTI ALLAH Hong, which has slow down Peace dialogues arranged between farmers and herders alongside community leaders and youth leaders to come to a consensus by the CPSP committee, ward heads and leaders from both denominations to assembled and deliberate but we are pleased to hear that British Coun-cil are doing something about it presently.”
Suleiman Garba
“The national union of road transport workers NURTW pledged to caution their members to follow laid down traffic regulations. Through the ongoing sensitizations and dialogue, the rate of occurrence of accidents has considerably reduced because of the work plans put in place by CPSP”.
Ahmadu FRSC