NAN-H-27
Crisis
By Aminu Ahmed Garko
Minna, Jan.26,2017 (NAN) A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Niger, Mr Muazu Rijau, has called for the adoption of community-based approach to end Southern Kaduna crisis.
Rijau made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Thursday.
He said that engaging communities to build peace, based on mutual trust and peaceful coexistence, would stop the recurring crisis in the area.
The chieftain also urged traditional leaders to help in the peace process by identifying those involved and make them account for their action, irrespective of tribe or religion.
“It is a bad omen to our cooperate existence as a nation for us to be witnessing killings of innocent souls.
“Security personnel deployed should also seek the cooperation of stakeholders in identifying the roots causes of the crisis,’’ he said.
He, however, commended the effort of President Buhari for demonstrating political will to end the activities of Boko Haram in the North-East of the country.
Rijau, also a former Commissioner of Finance, advised the Federal Government to deploy more security personnel to Southern Kaduna to prevent the crisis from spreading to other parts of the country.
He also called on Nigerians to compliment government’s effort with useful and intelligence information that would lead to the arrest and prosecution of sponsors of violence in Nigeria.
“Nigeria is our country, we have no any other place to call our own, hence, the need for us to strengthen our cooperate existence through religious tolerance and understanding, irrespective of tribe, ethnic and political leaning.” (NAN)
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Edited by Dada Ahmed