KADUNA DEFENDS CONTOVERSIAL PREACHING BILL, PFN KICKS

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       -   Worried by the dust raised by the proposed Religious Preaching Bill currently before the Kaduna State House of Assembly, the Kaduna State Govt. on Wednesday met the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria in the state.

-       -   At the meeting held at the old chamber of the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, the state Deputy Gov. Barnabas Bala, who represented Gov. Nasir el-Rufai met with CAN, which was led by its state Chairman, Dr. George Dodo.

-    -      Bala noted at the opening of the meeting before it went into a closed-door session that the bill was necessary to curb religious extremism and hate speech.

-    -      He told the CAN delegation that the government. had a duty to ensure that religious violence no longer threatened the peace of the state, adding that the government was committed to ensuring that religion was practiced in a safe and secure climate.

    CULLED FROM THE PUNCH.