CONAECDA Calls on the United States to Assist Communities in Developing Robust Community-based Early Warning and Early Response System

The Conference of Autochthonous Ethnic Nationalities Community Development Associations, CONAECDA, has appealed to the United States of America, USA, to ensure that States Government in the country implement the recommendations of the US Under Secretary of State on enhanced community based early warning and early response system in Nigeria.

CONAECDA, a network of over 400 Ethnic nationalities of the Middle Belt, made the appeal as part of the Conference Resolutions in a communique at the end of its 12th Annual Conference held between 4th -7th December 2025 in Jos.

The Communique, signed by Danladi Jeji and Suleman D. Sukukum, Conference President and Secretary respectively, also directed its secretariat to strengthens the Community Based Early Warning and Early Response System in synergy with Government and Communities.

Thie resolution also called on communities to ensure that those tasked with the responsibility or involved in providing security services to communities should held accountable to the Community.

The community leaders also called on Government to be deliberate in rehabilitating, reconstructing, returning and protecting displaced communities, and to purge itself from all those clearly recognized to be associated with terrorism.

The Communique also called on the international community to support Nigerian Government and communities in fighting insecurity and to hold all such partners accountable for their actions and inactions, and expressed it’s support to any legitimate intervention that will stop the killings of innocent Nigerians, irrespective of any divide.

The Association however expressed it’s opposition against any intervention that will further complicate the precarious security situation in Nigeria and or to any actions that may aggravate or escalate the current situations and any action or actions that may lead to the loss of more lives.