The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Jamaátu Nasril Islam (JNI) Kaduna South chapter, have urged Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa to empower the teeming youths in the state as a way of reducing youth unemployment.
A communiqué jointly signed by Alhaji Salisu Abdullahi for JNI and Apostle Aderinto Rafael for CAN and issued to newsmen at the end of a seminar for heads of Christian and Muslim schools, the two bodies viewed youth unemployment as the cause of violence in the state.
“To? avert crises, the government of the day should adequately empower the youth to curb unnecessary violence. It is unacceptable for people to perpetrate criminality under the guise of religion and politics. The offenders should be adequately punished,” they? said.
“We are calling on the government to as a matter of urgency, empower the youth which will reduce their restiveness drastically.
“Kaduna and Nigeria is our home, we have no other place to go than where God has graciously given us and we say enough of the violence. Let us embrace each other as God’s Children in a Nation Call Nigeria and leave peacefully,” they added.
The religious groups frowned at the series of violence experienced in the state and condemn it in totality, “Kaduna has witnessed several unnecessary and wanton destruction of lives and properties over the years which has drawn the state backward. The unfortunate events have given us bad name as a people”.
The group queried, “For how long shall we continue to manage peace instead of enjoying it?”