On May 21, 2001, there had been a report of an attack on Christians at a weekly market in Kaduna called 'Monday Market'. The rumor was that a Muslim had killed a Christian man and that several others had been wounded. It was also rumored that the Muslims had hoisted a "red flag" to indicate their readiness to carry out a Jihad (Muslim Holy war). Immediately, people in the community became fearful and began to flee the market.

The rumor soon spread to Nasarawa village in Kaduna South (a Christian-dominated community). Immediately, Christian youth groups mounted a roadblock so that they could snare a Muslim in retaliation for the killing of the Christian. Eventually, a Muslim Hausa man was trapped in the roadblock and was dragged out of his vehicle, but before he could be killed, a Christian Youth Leader, Sunday Oibe rushed to the scene. Young Sunday asked the mob for proof that there had actually been an attack on Christians in Monday Market in Kaduna. No one present could confirm that they had witnessed the killing. He then asked the crowd not to kill the Hausa man until they had more information on what had really happened. Sunday stopped a commercial bus driver coming from the market to confirm the incident. The driver told the mob that to his knowledge, nobody had been killed.

Sunday Oibe then charged the Christian youth to always confirm rumors before acting. The Hausa Muslim man was later allowed to continue his journey to Nasarawa village in the company of Sunday Oibe.

Sunday Oibe was one of the beneficiaries under a USAID/Office of Transition Initiatives(OTI)-funded training activity on conflict mediation and joint problem solving for religious youth leaders in Kaduna State. Using the skills acquired in the training, Sunday single-handedly prevented a crisis. For his intervention, Sunday later received a Peace Award for "preventing a third carnage in Kaduna" from the Conflict Resolution Stakeholders Network (CRESNET) Northwest zone on February 9, 2002.