The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, has revealed how he used his personal resources to rebuild a church destroyed during a religious unrest at Rogo Local Government Area of the state.
The traditional ruler disclosed this on Friday during a one-day Inter-Religious and Community Conference organised by Kano State government with the theme: “Towards Strengthening Interfaith and Community Relations for Harmony, Peace and Sustainable Development, held at Coronation Hall, Government House in Kano.
While addressing the delegation of religious leaders, he said “I renovated the said church to help avoid a situation where a Christian believer might feel offended and his religion disrespected.”
The former CBN governor went on to request all adherents of the two major religions in the country to respect each other’s faith to avoid future religious disharmony in the state and the country at large.
The chief host of the event and Kano State governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, in his remarks, disclosed that research has shown that most of the religious conflicts experienced in the country were in one way or the other triggered by elites who are bent on dividing following of the different religions.
He observed that both the Islamic and Christian faiths demand followers to live in peace and preach peace, stressing that neither of the scriptures of the two religions advocate violence.
Ganduje charged the participants, which included the state CAN chairman, Ransome Bello as well as other Christians and Muslims clerics, to put what they have learnt from the conference into practice.
Expressing optimism that the people of Nigeria will embrace each other irrespective of religious convictions, Ganduje revealed that his administration decided to convene the conference in view of the fact that Kano is adjudged to be a state that is truly cosmopolitan in nature.
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