Governor Gaidam of Yobe State.

As Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs return to their communities, the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, on Friday said it would partner the Yobe State government on sustainable peace and conflict resolution, the News Agency of Nigetia, NAN, reports.

Prof. Oshita Oshita, the Institute’s Director-General, stated this at a meeting with stakeholders in Damaturu.

He told the Commissioner for Justice, Ahmed Mustapha, that there was need to have relevant laws to protect the IDPs, as they returned to their communities.

Similarly, the Director-General also solicited for partnership with the Ministry of Information to use the state Radio and Television Stations to pass the message of peace and peaceful coexistence to the people of the state.

Responding separately, Alhaji Ahmed Mustapha and Alhaji Mala Musti, commissioners for Justice and Information, respectively, pledged to support the programme to promote peace in the state.