The Commissioner of police, Zamfara state command, CP Ayuba Elkanah has held a peace building meeting with all religious leaders and other stakeholders at the command headquarters Gusau.
This is parts of effort to avert the spread of unrest that occured in neighbouring Sokoto state following the alleged blasphemy that led to the murder of Deborah Samuel, a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto.
Command spokesperson, SP Mohammed Shehu revealed the CP thanked the leaders and stakeholders for working assiduously to ensure that the state did not witness any breach of peace as a result of the Sokoto incident.
He urged them to sustain the tempo by constant preaching of religious tolerance and respect for one another.
Elkanah further called on parents and guardians to ensure proper monitoring of their wards especially the use of social media to as to checkmate their daily activities.
The CP while assuring the provision of adequate security for lives and property of all and sundry, called on people not to take laws into their hands, but they should report any complain to security agencies for proper action.
In separate remarks, the religious leaders and other stakeholders commended CP Elkanah for summoning the meeting as well as the proper handling of the security situation in the state.
They vowed to do everything humanly possible to ensure peaceful co-existence among their followers in the state.
Source: www.clintonsdaily.com
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