Another Religious Crisis Averted in Bauchi

Barely one year after the last religious crisis in Yelwa-Kagadama, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis, another crisis was averted on Wednesday, by security operatives, in conjunction with top government officials.
To forestall any breach of peace, a detadiment of armed Mobile Police men had been drafted to the area, while regular Policemen are patroling different parts of the state capital.
Trouble started on Monday morning, when some yet to be identified people allegedly pulled down the foundation of a Church at Sabon Kaura, a new settlement behind Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, for reason yet to be indentified, a development that led to demonstration along the Bauchi-Yelwa road.
However, in a swift reaction to the ugly incident, the state government through its Commissioner of Information, Alhaji Mohammed Abdullahi, has warned trouble makers hiding under the cover of religion that government would not hesitate to deal ''ruthlessly'' with them.
In radio and television broadcast which had been repeated intermittently, Abdullahi said government, in conjunction with security operatives, were more than ready to maintain the prevailing peace and security in the state, and called on the people of the state to go about their legitimate businesses without fear of molestation.