Information available to the Nigerian Tribune indicated that the government had, two weeks ago, received the report of a technical committee discretely put in place in December 2011, which reviewed the trends and spate of violence across the country.
It was gathered that the team included some key political persons, as well as top security figures. Sources said that the committee was mandated to look at the state of insecurity in the country and proffer solutions.
“The committee submitted its report quietly some weeks ago and the government has commenced immediate implementation of the positions.
“The recommendations are that government should meet with leaders of ethnic nationalities, not only in the North, but also across the country, while not reducing the ongoing efforts at building military and police architecture, manpower and capability to handle terrorism and insurgency.
“The belief is that political solution rather than pure military force will provide a lasting solution to the crisis at hand,” the sources said.
According to the sources, the panel recommended that the president should consult widely, both within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the opposition parties and that even when opposition leaders that were invited to meetings to come, the government should not hesitate to raise a team that would meet them.
It was gathered that President Goodluck Jonathan might have started the implementation of the report with the meeting of Berom and Hausa/Fulani leaders in Plateau State, which he hosted last week.
According to the report being implemented by the government, some causes of violence in the country went deeper than expected and even had connection with issues such relating to the foundation of the country.
“There is a confirmation that the Nigerian State is yet to settle, as many groups still see themselves in the light of the states that existed in pre-colonial era.
“There is also the question of resource sharing and allocation besides the issue of control of power apparatus.
“In the Middle Belt, the clashes between Hausa/Fulani and other groups are constant and these are survival issues,” a source, who had read the report, stated of its conclusions.
Other causes of the escalating violence, according to the team of experts, included decades of misgovernance, crisis of national identity, politics of greedy and selfish leaders, who failed to develop the people at different levels of government and inadequate policing.
It was gathered that besides the leaders of warring communities, the government would also schedule meetings with political leaders, as well as leaders of the Niger Delta, the Yoruba of the South-West, Arewa leaders, the Ogoni, as well as other identifiable groups.
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