Pastor Yohanna Buru has cautioned Governor Nasir el-Rufai to reconsider his stand over the proposed demolition notice served to residents of Gbagyi Villa community, Chikun local government area of Kaduna State, and review 2011 White Paper committee set up by erstwhile late governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa that looked into the matter and amicably demarcated the boundary between Kaduna Polytechnic and Gbagyi Villa community.
“We are not begging governor El-Rufai for sympathy but we are begging him for understanding on the parcel of land in question that has been a source of dispute between the native Gbagyi people and Kaduna Polytechnic,” he observed.
Speaking to newsmen in Kaduna, Sunday, the General overseer, Christ Evengelical Intercessary Fellowship Ministry, Kaduna, Pastor Yohanna Buru, said that the demolition exercises embarked upon since the inception of the El-Rufai-led administration in the state was not giving the government of the day a better face before the rest of the world.
“We will never fight our governor but he should not allow God fight because there are Churches that are built in the area while those who develop the area in question did not just [go] there on their own but through the authority’s consent.
“No matter what it is at this critical moment when Nigerians are going through this hard times in the history of the country, we should sympathise with one another and ensure ways to help correct one another in a way everyone will understand and feel a sense of belonging.
“Many people residing in the Gbagyi Villa community have their planning permissions to develop the plots issued to them by the Kaduna State Urban Planing and Development Authority (KASUPDA).”
On the religious bill passed to the state House of Assembly by governor El-Rufai to regulate the activities of Muslims and Christians in the state, Pastor Buru observed that there was the urgent need for the state government to bring the two religious leaders together to critically look at better ways it could be found to deal with the issue for a peaceful relationship.
“It is wrong to propose a bill asking that it should be passed into Law without consulting with the major stakeholders on how best the issue at stake could be critically looked into for a possible solution,” he lamented.