Tension Hits Bauchi as Community Fights Over Allocation of Cemetery
- Two communities in Bauchi state are fighting over the allocation of a cemetery by the state government
- The Muslim community in a petition to the governor of Bauchi state said the land belonging to it was wrongly allocated to Christians
- According to the Muslims, the land should be reallocated through the intervention of Governor Bala Mohammed
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A crisis is said to be rocking the Muslim community of the Yolan Bayara area, over the allocation of 470 hectares of land to the Christian community for the purpose of a Christian cemetery.
Daily Trust reports that the Muslim community while claiming the land, filed a petition against the action by the Bauchi State Government on the matter.
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The petition was dated January 10 and addressed to the Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed, through the secretary to the state government.
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In the petition signed by Sani Sarki Yakubu and six others, and copied to all heads of security agencies in Bauchi, the Emir of Bauchi, chairman Jamatu Nasiril Islam, Bauchi State, and chairman, JIBIWIS, Bauchi State, demanded the urgent intervention of the governor.
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According to them, the governor's intervention will avert the occurrence of a communal clash.
Also reacting to the petition, Governor Mohammed's spokesperson, Mukhtar Gidado, said the state government was yet to formally give out the land to the Christian community.
Gidado said the Bauchi state government is still studying the process of allocating of the said property.
His words:
“Government is still studying the processes.”
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In other news, things fell apart in the Bauchi state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2023 general election.
The state's immediate past governor, Mohammed Abubakar, reportedly endorsed the second-term bid of Governor Bala Mohammed.
Abubakar honoured the dinner organised in his honour by the PDP governor over his SAN nomination but snubbed the one organised by APC governorship candidate, Sadique Abubakar.
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He stated that God's ordained candidate is one whose public and private life is known and explanatory to ordinary Nigerians without any ounce of secrecy or deception.
The pragmatic cleric further stated that the ordained candidate of God for Nigerians is one whose records are transparent.
He said:
"Who is he that has come out of the marginalized zone of this nation where it appeared that people from that zone must not grow?
"Who is he that has a heart for people while others don’t? I think you all know who I’m talking about.”
Source: Legit.ng
