‘How To End Southern Kaduna Crisis’
To avoid further violent upheavals between militant Fulani herdsmen and natives in southern Kaduna, the National Secretary-General of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Apostle Emmanuel Nuhu Kure has called on the Federal Government to create a new state for the southern Kaduna people.
Responding to the intractable crisis which has claimed over 808 lives, the Kafanchan-based founder/General Overseer of Throneroom (Trust) Ministry said “nothing short of giving us a state, since we carry the same identity; that is we are Christians in the Southern Kaduna.
“I agree that it will not solve all the problems: the tribal languages and tribal problems would come up but giving us a state since we are carrying the same identity and we are more tolerant—we are tolerant towards the Muslims—it will help us manage our situations better. “As long as there are silent religious interests from the other side of southern Kaduna, even if they solve the problem, there will always be imbalance, it will be to our disadvantage, rather than our advantage. I think the long run solution to the southern Kaduna is eventually to give us a state and when they do that we will begin from there,” Apostle Kure stated.
He, however, commended the Federal Government for recently sending troops to bring in order.
“I also commend the International Community for taking interest because if the international community has not taken interest, the federal government would not act.
“If you ask me, it is because the international community took notice that is why the Federal Government is acting now and pressurising the state government to act positively. “I pray the International Community will act in the same manner in other areas of conflicts in other parts of Africa where much conflicts are still going on,” he stated.
