BY Luka Binniyat
KADUNA- Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, yesterday, said that the continued violence in the North was not Islamic, saying “Islam means peace and tolerance.’’
Bayero spoke, yesterday, in Kaduna at a parley with a 28-member joint delegation of the World Council of Churches, WCC, and Muslim scholars who where on a fact-finding mission on the last post-election violence that swept across most of the Northern states.
He said: ‘’What is happening now and what had happened in the past is not Islam. It is a strange thing in the North for Muslims to hack down Muslims and Christians and vice versa. We have lived in peace, tolerance and understanding for centuries.
“That is how Kano, Kaduna and all parts of the North have been. We have never visited our neighbours with violence. This is alien to us. Please help us find solutions to it.”
Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State, while receiving the delegation, lamented that the last crisis had shattered a long-standing peace and widened the gulf that had been bridged.
He said “We have been enjoying peace here since the last Miss World violence in 2002 in the state; until the last elections. It started as a political protest, but by the time it spread, it had assumed all kinds of colouration.
“But this administration has done a lot to attain peace and security in the past one year, and we have a very appreciable result.”
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