Simon Bako Lalong
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State and the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, yesterday, identified mediation and conciliation as effective ways of dispute resolution.
They spoke at the annual conference and induction ceremony of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC) in Abuja. Legal practitioners from across the country attended the event, while former Minister of Culture and Tourism, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, chaired the occasion.
Ekweremadu, in his keynote address, noted that litigation had become expensive and acrimonious and that alternative dispute resolution remained a veritable tool of resolving conflicts. Speaking on Myth and Reality of Agitations: The Place of Consensus Building, Ekweremadu held that Nigeria as presently constituted was not working.
He decried the fact that Nigerians were split along ethnic and religious lines.
Ekweremadu, Lalong, others seek mediation in conflicts
