By Blessing Odega
The CLEEN Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, has taken steps to strengthen community resilience and promote adaptive responses to security threats in Plateau.
The Executive Director (ED), CLEEN Foundation, Mr Peter Maduoma, said the engagement was aimed at fostering stronger collaboration among citizens, security institutions and other stakeholders.
Maduoma, who stated this on Tuesday in Jos at a citizens’ engagement, said that the efforts were to address emerging security challenges through inclusive and community-driven approaches.
The executive director, who was represented by the Programme Manager of CLEEN, Mrs Chigozirim Okoro.
He said the engagement brought together representatives of civil society organisations, security agencies, community leaders and development partners.
The ED further explained that the meeting was to examine strategies for improving accountability, enhancing local response capacity and building public trust in security governance.
Maduoma explained that the forum’s objective was to shift communities’ self-perception from passive recipients of security services to active agents in their own safety architecture.
The ED further said that forum would also map existing communities’ resilience assets, informal safety networks and partnerships across Plateau.
According to him, at the end of the two-day engagement, a joint community resilience and partnership statement capturing commitments from all participating partners would be produced.
He said critical gaps in community resilience that required external partnership support would also be identified and structured facilitation engagement between the communities and partners such as the Nigeria Police Force.
Maduoma commended the Open Society Foundation (OSF) for their continuous support of the foundation.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the first-quarter meeting was held in March 2026 to identify security challenges bedevilling the state.
NAN also reports that strategies were mapped on how citizens would cooperate with security agencies, particularly the police. NAN
