By Baba Yusuf
Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) Peace Committee has advised residents to desist from acts that would lead to crisis among the ethnic groups in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The chairman, National Peace Committee in AMAC, John B. Bawa, disclosed this yesterday when he led the peace campaign to Karshi, Karu, Jiwa and Garki ward during the week.
Bawa said the committee tagged: “National Peace Committee” which was inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari at the national level had been given mandate by the Chairman of AMAC, Hon. Abdullahi Adamu Candido, to extend it to the 12 political wards in the council in order to create peaceful co-existence among the people living in Abuja.
The committee chairman also said Candido had ordered them to campaign for peace to all traditional rulers, youths, Muslims and Christian leaders and leaders of the three major languages for them to in turn relate the message of peace to their people.
Bawa further frowned on the way parents handled the issue of their children.
“Our children are not taking care of by we parent, most of them engage themselves in armed robbery, kidnappers, cultism and other form of social vices without caution by we the parents,” he said.
He called on the traditional rulers to call farmers and Fulani herdsmen together and sensitise them on how to relate together the way our forefathers do relate with them for peaceful co-existence.
Responding, the Chief Imam of Karshi, Malam Ismaila Mamman, commended the AMAC chairman for the peace committee, saying that as a religion leader, they were ready to contribute their support to the government of the day, but government had failed to recognise them.
