Kwara state government has reconstituted a committee to further build confidence and provide templates to steadily resolve all issues of mutual concerns between the Muslims and Christians in the state.
The state governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, said this during a state broadcast on Tuesday.
The state government on February 26 announced an official policy allowing any willing Muslim schoolgirl to wear the hijab in public schools. The management of missionary schools in the state however opposed the policy, which later led to physical confrontation between some adherents of the two religions.
The governor said:” We took the decision in good faith and in the overall interest of all.
“I swore an oath to protect every Kwara. This oath includes looking at the bigger picture and doing everything to prevent a crisis before it occurs,”
He said he recognized the fear from the Christian and Muslim communities, but optimistic that with various meetings among stakeholders “the tensions and misgivings around the hijab decision are old wounds that must be healed.”
