Plateau wouldn’t be back to days of bloodshed again – NCPC boss

The Executive Secretary of the National Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) Rev. Dr Yakubu Pam has expressed confidence that Plateau State will not go back to the days of bloodshed any longer.

Speaking while receiving members of Izala Community of Gangare in Jos North LGA on a courtesy visit to his residence, he said Christian and Muslim should sustain the cordial working relationship and avoid giving room to ensure divisive element dont work towards taking us back to the old sorrowful days.

Rev. Pam feeling with joy said, “Through your visit today, we make new friends and establish deeper relationship. It will be on record that you people have come here because a path was set for peaceful coexistence and mutual respect for one another in the state.

“This was how relationship were built and known in the past here on the Plateau and harmony existed amongst our people which was devoid of where you come from and what you believe.

“I am very much confident that if we continue like this we shall not witness the old situations where people are being stopped on their way and injured or got their hands or hands shop-off.”

He added, “My joy is to see that we live and work together and benefit from the dividend of democracy. Whatever that come, we should share it amongst ourselves without any rancour.

“My joy will be complete if we continue to visit one another and live together in such a way that if you are a Birom, you are Hausa or Fulani, we will walk together not only on the street of Plateau State, but Nigeria as a whole.”

Leader of the delegation of Izala Community from Gangare in Jos North LGA of the state Ustas, Muhammed Kabir Chidawa said they are in the residence of the Executive Secretary to appreciate him for his immense contribution to the building of Islamic school known as “Ibn Mas’ud li-tahfizil Qur’an School” Gangare, Jos

“We are here because of your leadership disposition towards peaceful coexistence amongst faith in the country. I must say that President Muhammadu Buhari has gotten it right by appointing you into this exalted office as the Executive Secretary of the National Christian Pilgrim Centre (NCPC).

“As a community, we remain grateful for your kind support for the building of our school in Gangare. This school project is to help in the education of our children and to also take them off from all forms of social vices, abuse of substances as well as crime in the Stete Plateau.”

The Engineer handling the project, Engr. Ibrahim Bala disclosed that the project which commenced over a year now is still ongoing, stressing that the school project has Primary school and Junior Secondary School as its component and are still soliciting for support from well meaning Nigerians.