2023: Southern Kaduna Christians, Muslims Sign MoU For Peaceful Elections

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By; AMOS TAUNA, Kaduna

Southern Kaduna Christian Leaders Association and Southern Kaduna Council of Imams and Ulamas have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) towards ensuring peaceful coexistence between Christians and Muslims in the area before, during and after the forthcoming elections.

The MoU signed by Dr. Emmanuel Nuhu Kure and Chief Imam Muhammad D. Kassim, said, “Having identified stakeholders (Christians and Muslims) committed to the promotion of peaceful co-existence among communities in Southern Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria, the above 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.”

By working together at ensuring strategic and operational levels of understanding between the two groups, the Southern Kaduna Christian Leaders Association and Southern Kaduna Council of Imams and Ulamaa with their members, collectively and individually, agreed to ensure that they would have a crisis-free 2023 General Elections.  

The two groups also agreed that in the event that crisis erupts in other places, they would jointly ensure that it does not consume Southern Kaduna and their members are not involved.

According to the MoU, the  the participants shared objectives in support of a crisis-free 2023 general elections in Southern Kaduna, and their respective undertakings.  

It added that anyone who attempts to aid outsiders create or start a crisis, they would jointly release their 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,” the statement explained.

It called on all members to be vigilant and ensured a peaceful aftermath during the forthcoming general elections in the area.

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