CRY MY BELOVED WUM: BIHAPH CALLS FOR INTER-COMMUNITY DIALOGUE FOR PEACE.

The Wum town Hall played host to a come and see go and tell event that has PEACE as undertone message. Organised by the Bihndumlem Humanitarian Association for Peace and Hope BIHAPH, the come together brought sons and daughters of Wum and the Hausa/Fulanis communities, on the same table, to talk peace, dialogue and development.

Placing the August rendez-vous under the theme "Building interconnected communities towards peace, dialogue, conflict transformation, healing and reconciliation", the CEO of BIHAPH, Mme Bibiana Mbei Epouse Dighambong, called on all in attendance, to pull out the weeds of discord, hate, division, revenge and misunderstanding, and toil every day during good and troublesome day too.

Speaking during Inter-community Dialogue, the Senior Divisional Officer for Menchum Division, Mr. Abdoullahi Aliou, called on the audience to nurture peace, cultivate the habit of peaceful coexistence, love and unity and above all, shun fear and go about their businesses.

He also challenged them to rise above calls for ghost towns, boycotts and hate."Humanity is a single brotherhood. We should therefore see a brother in each and everyone of us."

At the end of this unique exercise, all in attendance committed and engaged themselves to work for Peace towards a holistic and sustainable rural transformation.

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By Stephen Ojang in Wum.

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