An NGO, Oxfam, has organised a sensitisation programme for staholders in Jos North and Jos South Local Government Areas, ahead of the March 18 Governorship and House of Assembly elections in Plateau.

Mr Daniel Audu, the Project Coordinator of the organisation, who declared the exercise open on Friday in Jos, said that the event was part of its projects tagged ''Strengthening Mechanism for Early Warning Response to Electoral Violence''.

He explained that the project , funded by Start Fund currently being implemented in Plateau and Kano State, aimed at ensuring a violent free polls.

''This project is basically to mitigate violent conflict before, during and after the general elections. 

''It is a unique mechanism of granting from Start Fund which came as a result of some of the violent triggers that were identified within Plateau and Kano state.

''So, this intervention become necessary and very strategic toward addressing these trigger so that we will not have conflicts that will interrupt the political space during this election

''The choice of Kano and Plateau for this project is delibrate because these are flash points during elections,''Audu said.

The coordinator explained that the ongoing meeting is to enable the stakeholders to review the post election action plan developed after the presidential elections toward making the governorship election better. 

He said that the organisation was leveraging on the existing early warning structure in the communities toward actualising its aim, adding that where none exist, new ones are established. 

''We have brought these stakeholders here basically  to review the post election action plan we developed after the presidential and national assembly elections toward a violent free governorship polls

''We have security agents, media, community and religious leaders, Civil Society Organisation (CSOs), Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), among others participated in this exercise,''he added