 Wurrid by the increasing rate of interagency rivalry among security agencies, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Center, SISLAC, has organized a training workshop for journalists in Adamawa on conflict-sensitive reporting. Speaking at the workshop in Yula over the weekend, the executive secretary of SISLAC, Awal Musa Rafsanjani, said the workshop aimed to sensitize journalists on conflict-sensitive reporting and broaden their knowledge on early warning signals and response system being critical stakeholders whose roles could make OMA the country's peace and security efforts. Especially the media, people are relying on their news because this is the only avenue we get fresh hand news and which is reliable. So they should always assess, analyze their news before they now pass it to the public because that is what we are relying on. We are relying on them for whatever news, being it positive or negative. And they should use the early warning in order to warn communities to say something just like what the police are always saying. If you see something, say something. I think they will have to use their medium to encourage the public in saying something. When you talk of early warning and early response, you cannot completely address the issues and the challenges that comes with it without having to talk to the community people themselves. And then when you talk to the community people themselves who are actually the best people to provide intelligence given that they know themselves within the communities, then we will not have to look at the response mechanism, how fast is it for security apparatus to address or to react to intelligence when shared. Oftentimes when we engage these community observers, they tell us that it is not even a thing that they do not provide these intelligence but the inability for security apparatus to react using those intelligence is one very discouraging factor. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.