He noted that some adherents even question the rights of others to exist, let alone practice their faith or live wherever they wish.
El-Rufai recalled that Air Vice Marshall Usman Muazu enacted the Religious Preaching Edict in 1984 to address this matter.
Speaking at the inauguration of the Interfaith Preaching Regulatory Council, El-Rufai said that “subsequent military governors amended the edict to vary the penalty imposed for violations of its provisions.”
“This is a law that has always been in the statute book of Kaduna State but it has not been implemented faithfully. We decided in 2016 to review this edict and subject a revised law to the scrutiny of an elected legislature for the first time.
“We have now a religious preaching law, and we are determined to do our best to help stamp out the poison from the negative practice of religion, ” he disclosed.