Lagos State Commissioner for Home Affairs, Dr Abdulhakeem Abdullateef, last Monday, said religion helped to promote peaceful co-existence in the state though religion has been manipulated in other places to perpetuate conflict. They both underscored the importance of peace co-existence.Reverend Julius Odofin in his paper maintained that clerics must promote peace in their domains if they want governors and local government chairmen to allocate less fund as security votes. He argued that absence of peace is responsible for the increasing security votes by state governors. He added that if there is peace, the governors would have less security votes which would allow them have access to more funds for developmental issues, reason he said they must do all to promote peace. He stated that with NIREC at the local government, the state government is deepening the culture of dialogue at the grassroots.

Source: The Guardian February 01, 2019 01:41 UTC