Kano ‘peace talk’ resolves to sustain engagement

Stakeholders at the Kano “Peace Talk” parley have resolved to continue to engage youths towards sustaining peaceful coexistence in the state.

The meeting was summoned by the Ministers of defence and agriculture, Bashir Magashi and Sabo Nanono respectively following a directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to his cabinet members to return to their respective states to engage stakeholders towards ensuring peace in the wake of the nationwide #EndSARS protests.

Speaking at the meeting, Magashi said the meeting was necessary to sensitise the stakeholders on the need to continue to live with one another  peacefully and draw the attention of youths to the damage being done to the country in the name of protests.

He said what started as a peaceful protest was hijacked by hoodlums, and that government could not continue to allow few miscreants to tarnish the image of the country.

The Chairman of the state Peace Committee, Prof. Ibrahim Umar, applauded Kano residents for being peaceful and for not towing the violent line of other states.

In their separate remarks, the Chief Imam of Kano, Professor Sani Zahraddeen, and the Chairman of the  Christian Association of Nigeria in the state, Rev Adeolu Adeyemo, said sermons in the mosques and churches were centered on preaching peace to youths in order to avert the breakdown of law and order in the state.

Stakeholders that attended the parley, including traditional rulers, religious leaders, chairmen of different tribes living in the state spoke on need for the citizens to continue to live in peace with one another.