The Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna has revealed that a chunk of the region\u2019s budgetary allocation is used for conflict prevention and peace management.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”QHqtjf5dhBU2mfZeTBLVybIyawEb6A5O”]Dagbon, Bimbila and Bunkprugu\/Yunyoo are the identified hotspots in the region where recurrent communal and chieftaincy clashes have kept security operatives always busy.<\/p>\n
Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna in a Citi News<\/strong> interview bemoaned the situation and emphasized the need for peaceful co-existence in the troubled areas.<\/p>\n He tasked members of the clergy to deepen their prayers for the restoration of peace in the conflict zones.<\/p>\n He maintained that chieftaincy, land and other related conflicts continued to halt the region\u2019s transformational agenda. He lamented, \u201cAs I always say peace is not a commodity that can be bought from the market: we have to create that peaceful environment so I am urging everybody to understand and like each other.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhenever there is that likeness there will be unity and when there is unity there will peace and when there is peace there will be development,\u201d the minister observed.<\/p>\n Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna nonetheless commended Muslim Clerics in the region for their civil conduct throughout the Ramadan period.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to thank all the ulamah and the Muslim Clerics in northern region for letting us have a very peaceful Ramadan: I want to urge them to desist or run away from business as usual because there is this tendency, the moment the Ramadan passes people get back to their old deeds.\u201d<\/p>\n He encouraged religious bodies in the region to actively participate in government\u2019s development agenda.<\/p>\n He also implored members of the clergy to help government combat moral decadence associated with the youth.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna has revealed that a chunk of the region\u2019s budgetary allocation is used for conflict prevention and peace management. [contextly_sidebar id=”QHqtjf5dhBU2mfZeTBLVybIyawEb6A5O”]Dagbon, Bimbila and Bunkprugu\/Yunyoo are the identified hotspots in the region where recurrent communal and chieftaincy clashes have kept security operatives always busy. Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":119215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-136681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\u201cI have always been talking and yearning for peace for Northern Region: we should take this opportunity to co-exist and make sure that we live in a peaceful environment.\u201d<\/p>\n