FOLLOWING the lingering crisis between herdsmen and farmers, and the need to maintain peace in the country, the National Orientation Agency (NOA) and the National Theatre/National Troupe of Nigeria, have embarked on a peace-building initiative in the communities where the crisis has persisted. He said the Agency was flagging off a collaborative peace-building initiative with the National Theatre/National Troupe of Nigeria to leverage on the footprint of the Agency and its experience in mass mobilization and behaviour modification. “This synergy, with the cultural expertise of the National Theatre and the National Troupe of Nigeria, in the area of community theatre, to unfold comprehensive community-oriented peace-building programmes, will be desirable for institutional inter-community dialogue, for peaceful resolution of conflicts and disputes”, Dr Abari said. He said the initiative which would cover farmers and herdsmen in communities of Nasarawa, Kaduna, Plateau, Taraba, Benue, and Enugu, would come as a community Theatre Drama model aimed at resolving disputes in communities. Law enforcement agents would as expected be proactive in arresting and sanctioning criminal elements in these communities”.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 12, 2018 14:10 UTC