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They urged ethnic, religious groups and leaders across the country to desist from inflammatory utterances that could incite fellow Nigerians based on the insecurity concerns and other agitations across the country.
According to them, the unwholesome security situation in the country was initially domesticated to the North East and to some extent, the North Central; and that it is worrisome that it is steadily moving to the other part of the country.
“However, we should not throw the baby with the bathwater as some provocative, stereotypical, profiling and criminalization of a tribe or religious group is unethical to peacebuilding.
“We have said it several times that there are criminals in all religious and tribal groups in Nigeria. As religious and community leaders, we should be able to undertake internal cleansing of all by checking any negative coloration in the society,” the forum said.