Governor Zulum of Borno State
By Dauda R. Pam, Maiduguri
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, has felicitated and commended all Christians in the State for upholding the virtues of peaceful INTER-RELIGIOUS co-existence despite bokoharam INSURGENCY.
This was contained in a goodwill Easter message to Christians in the state issued by Special Adviser Media, Malam Isa Gusau,in MAIDUGURI.
According to the statement, GOVERNOR BABAGANA UMARA ZULUM,is “very proud of Christians and Muslims in Borno State for maintaining peaceful co-existence in all the 27 Local Government Areas of the State, despite facing tough situations from Boko Haram since 2009, whose fighters have undertook numerous attacks on places of worship”.
“As Christians all over the world mark this year’s Easter celebration, which began Friday, I felicitate with my Christian brothers and sisters in Borno State. A season like this which calls for deep and shared reflection on our lives in general, should remind us of not just the challenges we continually face, but also, to be grateful for some accomplishments we have made together as citizens with equal stakes in the Borno project”.
“For me, one great accomplishment recorded in Borno State is the peaceful co-existence between Muslims and Christians across the 27 Local Government Areas despite being faced with all manner of inciting tactics deployed by those who wish to knock our heads”.
He said he is immensely proud of the people of Borno for the religious harmony between Christians and Muslims in families, communities, schools, all our social and political gatherings, at Government institutions, private work places, markets and other business places, in our sporting activities and other aspects of our shared existence.
Equally,he commended traditional rulers, elders and religious leaders in both faiths, for being role models for younger ones and for our children. “Indeed, I am proud of the religious peace we have, and I urge us all to continue to do whatever we can to nurture and preserve that precious harmony between us”.
Government,he said,is committed to sustaining that bond of peace, and critically determined, more than ever, working behind the scene to find lasting end to the Boko Haram insurgency.
He used the occasion to salute all armed forces, the multinational joint task force, and volunteers in the civilian JTF, hunters and vigilantes, for all the sacrifices towards finding peace in Borno and urged them never to relent but to take steps ahead of the insurgents in both preventive and responsive approaches.
The GOVERNOR prayed God to grant enduring peace in Borno, other parts of the northeast and Nigeria at large.
