Borno Commissioner for Information and Internal Security, Prof. Usman Tar, says the regular town hall meetings initiated by the state government is part of measures to promote good governance.
Tar made this known while speaking with newsmen on the sidelines of the just-concluded two-day stakeholders’ engagement on the current security challenges in North-East.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the town hall meeting was organised by the office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), in collaboration with Borno government.
Tar said that the meetings, particularly with communities recovering from the insurgency, were aimed at ensuring social and psychological reorientation for them.
“Borno government recognises that there is the need not only to build physical infrastructure but also, to build mental and psychological infrastructure.
“The town hall meetings also provide the opportunity for constructive engagements between government and the people.
“From the town hall, we get to hear the frustrations and anger of the people and their suggestions on how to improve on policies of the government.
“The town hall is basically a constructive facility for engagement of the people in order to improve policy and programmes of the government,” Tar said.
While commenting on the stakeholders’ meeting on security in the north-east, the commissioner said that the stakeholders deliberated on challenges like insurgency, terrorism, banditry and farmers/herders’ conflict in the zone.
He said that they also discussed ways forward in term of restoration of peace-building and vital infrastructure that would aid the process in the zone.
“The aim is to look forward to a society that is more peaceful, free of all the violence and challenges that we are currently facing,” he said.
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Tar said that government was doing its best, adding that already, the non-kinetic approach adopted in addressing the insurgency had been fruitful.
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He added that no fewer than 140,000 people, comprising Boko Haram members and communities under their control, had handed over themselves to the authorities. (NAN)
