Christians should be allowed to serve in Hisbah – Zaria CAN

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Zaria Local Government Chapter, has called connected the Kaduna State Government to let Christian youths to beryllium recruited into the state’s Hisbah Corps to beforehand unity, peace, and spiritual inclusion.

Secretary of the Zaria CAN chapter, Pastor Nuhu Sani, made the entreaty during a nationalist engagement organised by the Kaduna State Hisbah Board connected Monday.

He stressed that including Christians successful the operations of Hisbah would not lone foster interfaith collaboration but besides alteration the nationalist cognition of the bureau arsenic being exclusively Islamic.

“There is nary religion whose followers are escaped from wrongdoing. Christians and Muslims alike perpetrate offences, and that is wherefore we are calling for broader recruitment into Hisbah that includes members of different faiths,” Pastor Sani said.

He added that allowing Christians to service successful the Hisbah Corps would heighten societal spot and alteration amended synergy betwixt spiritual communities successful tackling motivation and societal issues.

While speaking, the Commander-General of the Kaduna State Hisbah Board, Awwal Abubakar, said the committee had intensified efforts successful combating immoral activities crossed the state, disclosing that implicit 150 transgression hideouts had been uncovered done collaborative operations with different information agencies.