{"id":125686,"date":"2021-12-26T15:37:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T14:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=125686"},"modified":"2021-12-26T15:37:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T14:37:37","slug":"bala-mohammed-reveals-why-hes-including-more-christians-in-his-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/26\/bala-mohammed-reveals-why-hes-including-more-christians-in-his-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Bala Mohammed reveals why he&#8217;s including more christians in his administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Bauchi state, Bala Mohammed has stated that Christians have equal rights as Muslims in his state.<\/p>\n<p>This was stated on Saturday by the governor when Abraham Damina, the state chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) led the Christian community on a visit to the governor.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed said he decided to include more Christians in his administration because he realised they had been excluded in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI noticed there is a lot of exclusion and decided to include more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/25\/senate-spokesperson-to-christians-weve-much-to-learn-from-christmas\/\">Christians<\/a> in my administration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy that during our tenure, we are deepening inclusion and we are creating love as well as breaking all the barriers that are preventing us from embracing each other in fraternity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are building some huge churches as we are building mosques because I have discovered that you have equal rights and you must be respected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI assure you we are not going to allow anybody to use our communities anymore in order to get cheap popularity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor promised to give more slots to the upcoming Christian pilgrimage \u201cto make them happy and to show that the government is grateful\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed said his administration would ensure that the situation where some civil servants were deliberately removed from the payroll would soon be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>He said the state government had enforced the spirit of autonomy for the local governments, adding that they were given all their resources and had started paying salaries since November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Bauchi state, Bala Mohammed has stated that Christians have equal rights as Muslims in his state. 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