2023: Southern Kaduna Muslims, Christians, sign peace agreement
The Christian and Muslim leaders in Southern Kaduna have signed a peace agreement ahead of the forthcoming general elections.
The religious leaders signed a
Ahead of the 2023 General elections, Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU), expressing their readiness to be maintain peace and order before, during and after the general elections.
The MoU reads: ” Memorandum of Understanding in support of a crisis free 2023 General elections between Southern Kaduna Christian leaders Association and Southern Kaduna Council of Imams & Ulama.”
Apostle Dr.Emmanuel Nuhu Kure and Chief Imam Muhammad D Kassim, who’re both signees of the document said “having identified stakeholders (Christians and Muslims) committed to the promotion of peaceful co-existence among communities in Southern Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria, the leaders do undertake to sign this MOU as a mark of their commitment towards sustaining peaceful coexistence for progress before, during and after the February/March 2023 General Elections.”
They added that “by working together at both the strategic and operational levels, the Southern Kaduna Christian Leaders Association and Southern Kaduna Council of Imams and Ulamaa with their members, collectively and individually, agree to ensure that we will have a crisis-free 2023 General Elections. Noting that even if crisis erupts in other places we will jointly ensure that it does not consume Southern Kaduna and our members are not involved.”
“This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), therefore, articulates the participants’ shared objectives in support of a crisis-free 2023 General Elections in Southern Kaduna, and their respective undertakings. Anyone who attempts to aid outsiders create or start a crisis, we will jointly release our members to protect the land from both external and internal trouble before, during and after the 2023 General Elections.”
“This MOU is meant to serve as a reminder of the commitment of the undersigned in support of a crisis-free 2023 General Elections in Southern Kaduna. It also establishes a basis for ongoing dialogue and cooperation between the participants, so that future interventions and areas of mutual interest may be brought under this framework,” they stated.
The religious representatives informed their members to be peaceful before, during, and after the forthcoming general elections.
