Zamfara goes spiritual, sends 97 clerics to pray against bandits in Saudi Arabia
Story from Saleh INUWA, Kano
As part of its new desire to diversify strategies of restoring peace and security in Zamfara State, the state Governor, Bello Matawalle, has sent 97 clerics to the holy land to pray for peace for the state.
The Ulamas are to engage in prayer sessions in almost all strategic holy places of worship in the cities of Makkah and Madina with a view to restore peace in Nigeria.
Addressing the clerics before their departure, the state’s deputy governor, Senator Hassan Nasiha, charged them to consider the state and its people in their prayers.
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This, he said, they should do with the hope that God would bring an end to multiple problems of the state, adding that Zamfara State for a very long time did not enjoy relative peace, people are always being killed by bandits almost on the daily basis.
Delivering a sermon at the departure, a cleric, Dr Atiku Balarabe, briefed the pilgrims on how best to concentrate on their worship and prayers in Saudi Arabia.
He said they should constantly remember that they are representative of all citizens of the state and to seek God’s intervention to bring an end to banditry and other crimes in the state.
Balarabe said they must concentrate on the prayers to meet the state’s expectations considering the trust reposed in them by millions of people of the state. Earlier in the month, Zamfara distributed more than 200 Cadillac 2019 model to traditional rulers in the state.
