Jos-based Youth Initiative Against Violence and Human Rights Abuse (YIAVHA) has inaugurated a seven-man election violence monitoring and mitigation committee to support other actions that would be taken by state and non-state actors towards peaceful and credible elections in Plateau State and Nigeria.
Speaking at the event, the executive director of YIAVHA, Pwakim Jacob, said elections in Nigeria come with mixed feelings, while some experience hope and enthusiasm to yet again have an opportunity to choose their leaders, others experience fear and anxiety courtesy of past history of elections in their communities.
He said some have the scars of the bitter experience of violence preparatory to the 2023 elections, noting that in a report by Long Time Monitor spread across the 17 LGAs of Plateau State shared by their partners Kimpact Development Initiative (KDI) , the International Republican Institute (IRI) with Support from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), there had been…
Source: Leadership Newspaper
