The Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), on Wednesday in Kano, said it will organize a peace summit, toward finding an enduring solution to the country’s multifaceted problems threatening the corporate existence of the country.
The zonal summit is scheduled to hold at the Coronation hall, Government House, Kano on Thursday, October 14, 2021.
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Briefing newsmen on the development, the Chairman of NIPR, North West, Dr Sule Ya’u Sule, said the institute has the constitutional mandate to organize the summit, so as to douse the rising tension and mistrust in the country.
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According to him, the NIPR will not fold its arms and allow the crisis to degenerate into an unmanageable level, disclosing that the institute will invite all the ethnic nationalities and relevant stakeholders within the zone, ranging from the Ulama, CAN representatives to articulate their grievances, toward forwarding it to the Presidency after deliberations.
”NIPR being a body, charged with responsibility of maintaining relationship will not allow tension to persist across the country, as people are scared to travel to some parts of the country, due to security challenging bedeviling the country.”
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”only 10, 000- Nigerian refugees crossed over to Niger Republic, but the country complained,
following their inability to provide basic necessities to them, so if we allow the situation to continue, we will all suffer.”
Among others, Ya’u disclosed that the summit will collate the diverse views of the people of the zone for onward submission to the national headquarters.
