HURIWA faults El-Rufai over alleged plot to demolish Kaduna church, Gbagyi community

The Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria, HURIWA, has described the alleged plot by Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State to demolish the St Francis of Asisi Catholic Church in Mando, Kaduna State and the Gbagyi settlement in the state as an unnecessary distraction capable of truncating the current inter-communal peace and harmony in Kaduna State.

HURIWA, which made the observations in a statement jointly signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the Director of Media Affairs, Miss Zainab Yusuf, affirmed that the unilateral decision of the Kaduna State government to demolish those structures belonging to both the catholic church and the Ethnic Gbagyis amounted to an unconstitutional attempt to expel them from the State.

The group said it was inconceivable that after series of sectarian conflicts in the last two decades and with relative peace returning to the flash point of inter religious and inter ethnic conflicts which Kaduna State has become, a democratically elected governor would elect “to deploy crude force to selectively demolish housing assets and worship centers of the citizenry only because of their Ethno-religious affiliations”.