Governor Uba Sani has advised states that want to copy the Kaduna Peace Model, to find out the symptoms and drivers of their peculiar security challenges to enable them succeed.
The Governor further said that having done that, the states should also allow the communities to own the Peace Model, believe in it and drive it to achieve positive results.
He gave this counsel when the Implementation Monitoring Committee of the National Economic Council came to Sir Kashim Ibrahim House on a courtesy visit.
Governor Uba Sani recalled that when his administration came into office, there was a lot of trust deficit between the government and the people, adding that ‘’this was the first thing we addressed.’’
According to him, the second area that his administration addressed is the issue of justice, equity, as well as fairness because a lot of politicians were exploiting them for selfish ends.
The Governor said that conflict entrepreneurs hiding under the canopy of religion and ethnicity, had a field day and their foot soldiers were wrecking a lot of havoc in Kaduna State.
He disclosed that the security challenges in Kaduna State used to comprise ethno-religious crises on the one hand and kidnapping and banditry on the other hand.
‘’From our statistics and data, we realize that we lost more lives as a result of the religious crises in Kaduna State, than even banditry. And that is the reason why we sat down and looked at the situation,’’ he added.
According to the Governor,
