Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State, on Wednesday, expressed concern over the ethnic and non secular divisions in Kaduna State.
He additionally lamented that each one authorities actions or inactions had been considered from the lenses of faith and ethnicity.
Speaking at a one-day reflection assembly on Kaduna’s path on peacebuilding organised by the Kaduna Peace Commission in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), he stated, “I manage a state where emotions run high at the slightest provocation or perception of injustice; the people are captives of their past, a past marked by incessant conflicts, bloodletting, hate, and distrust.”
According to the Governor, the State has had its justifiable share of ethnic and non secular conflicts, saying that the depth has drastically diminished, whereas worry of escalation on account of tussles for land stays robust.
The Governor pressured the necessity for the individuals to interrupt unfastened from the disagreeable previous, collectively free themselves from the grip of battle retailers and brokers of retrogression.
He promised the residents of the state that he was going to run an all-inclusive authorities with none particular person or teams being marginalised.
He additionally assured of charting a brand new path that will result in a secure, peaceable, and affluent State.
He stated, “Apart from ethnic and religious tensions, we now face the destabilizing activities of bandits, terrorists, kidnappers, armed robbers, and other criminal elements.”
He defined the State Government had been working carefully with Federal Security Forces to degrade the legal parts and make Kaduna communities secure for residing and enterprise, stressing that the battle had been taken to the criminals’ abode.
