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Peace
By Muhyideen Jimoh
Abuja, June 8, 2017 (NAN) The Minister of Interior, Retired Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, on Thursday, urged Nigerians to live in peace and avoid anything that would cause disharmony.
The minister made the call in a statement by his Press Secretary, Mr Ehisienmen Osaigbovo in Abuja, in reaction to a youth organisation’s ultimatum to an ethnic group in the country to leave the North.
He condemned such call and described it as “spurious and unwarranted act.’’
Dambazau said that the Federal Government would bring the full weight of the law on any individual or group violating the rights of other citizens.
He added that “I call on all well meaning Nigerians to go about their normal activities as government would bring to bear the full weight of the law on any individual or group violating the rights of citizens of the country.”
He lamented the spate of such spurious and unwarranted calls for separation and called on well meaning Nigerians to go about their normal activities without any fear.
The minister said that the Federal Government would ensure that citizens were free to go about their normal businesses without harassment or hindrance by any group or persons.
He advised the various ethnic groups in the country to desist from flaming the embers of hate, animosity, discord and disharmony.
He called on them to adhere strictly to the teachings of good values of religions and cultures that encouraged good neighbourliness, national unity, integration and love for one another.
Dambazau advised youths to avoid being instrument of violence, animosity and disharmony in the country. (NAN)
MUYI/AOM/HA
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Edited by Abdullahi Mohammed/Hadiza Mohammed-Aliyu