Christians in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna have called for a separate state following several days of violence between Muslims and Christians over the proposed introduction of Islamic Sharia law, news organisations reported on Saturday.
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) have asked the federal
government to split Kaduna State into two, one state for Muslims and the other for Christians, PANA reported. Archbishop Peter Jatau, the association's chairman for the northern states, told a visiting federal government delegation that a new Kaduna State was the only way to achieve peace.
"My candid appeal to President Olusegun Obasanjo is to create a new Kaduna State and I think there will be peace, otherwise whatever we are doing I don't think is going to solve the problem," PANA quoted Jatau as saying.
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