I’ll sustain peacebuilding campaigns – WANEP new board chair

The newly appointed Chairman, Board of Directors for the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP Nigeria), Mr. Kolawole Olatosimi, has promised to sustain the efforts of the peace and conflict resolution organisation. This, Olatosimi said he would achieve by strengthening peacebuilding structures and collaborations with relevant institutions in the country. He spoke after taking over […]

The newly appointed Chairman, Board of Directors for the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP Nigeria), Mr. Kolawole Olatosimi, has promised to sustain the efforts of the peace and conflict resolution organisation.

This, Olatosimi said he would achieve by strengthening peacebuilding structures and collaborations with relevant institutions in the country.

He spoke after taking over from his predecessor, Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi at the WENAP 2023 General Assembly Sunday in Abuja with the theme “Strengthening Peacebuilding Structures: Towards an Enhanced State Citizens Relations in Nigeria”.

The General Assembly was preceded by a strategic meeting facilitated by Mercy Corps where it formally presented the Peace Action for Rapid and Transformative Nigerian Early Response (PARTNER) program to WANEP Board of Director (BOD), Board of Trustees (BOT) and network members.

He expressed worry on the rising waves of resource-based, ethnic, and sectarian conflict, criminality, banditry and expanding violent extremism in the North Central and North-West zones of Nigeria that has made the regions increasingly insecure.

Also speaking, the former BoD Chair, Dr Akiyode-Afolabi commended the National Network Coordinator, WANEP Nigeria, Dr. Bridget Osakwe for her leadership and commitments to the organisation and her fantastic role in bringing her team together towards achieving the network’s objectives.