Winifred Bosa, Lagos.

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has bemoaned the seeming slow and inefficient response of the Government to security issues of the country.

CISLAC observed that this attitude has lead to misguided perceptions, and escalation of such conflicts.

Disclosing this in a press release signed by Auwal Musa Rafsanjani the Executive Director of CISLAC , called on the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency activate machinery for engaging the state governments and other relevant actors with the mandate of preferring and implementing plausible and proven long lasting solutions to the problem.

They emphasised that there is need for the Government to become more alert and sensitive  to addressing not just the current threats and violence in Benue state, but across the entire country.

Also condemning in totality the recent herders/farmers conflicts currently ongoing in certain parts of the country they called on Federal Government to as a matter of urgency  bring to justice all those involved in the Benue massacre .

“We call on the Federal Government to not just caution, but also be seen to be neutral, unbiased and impartial in dealing with opinion leaders, religious leaders, other leaders of thought and the media at both at the Federal and community levels ensuring that provocative and inciting statements and comments which are mainly used in stirring violence and reprisals are at the initial instance nipped at their very roots.”

Also pointing out that the onus of securing lives and properties remains the primary responsibility of government CISLAC noted that the government should ensure that the state security apparatus are at the order of the Commander-In-Chief, and that the Agencies must be proactively engaged in forestalling a breakdown in law and order across the country .