By Vivid Jannamike, Abuja
Following the graduation of 2022 Ramadan lickety-split, the Ansar-ud-deen Society of Nigeria, a faith-essentially based mostly organisation, has condemned the hot upsurge in ritual killings in the nation.
The non secular body, however, blamed the total breakdown of upright values and parental collusion as just a few of the reasons for the malaise.
It’d be recalled that four teenage suspects, Soliu Majekodunmi, 18, Wariz Oladehinde, 18, Abdulgafar Lukman, 19, and Balogun Mustaqeem, 20, lately self-confessed to the ritual killing of 1 Sofiat Kehinde, 20, in Ogun Train, who is presupposed to be relationship one in all them.
At a briefing the day gone by, the Chairman, Abuja branch of the society, Alhaji Mohammed Olayiwola, eminent the upward thrust in the occurrence of such makes an attempt at horrendous killings made by kids.
He stated, “The explain has provoked soul-procuring and introduced home the need for an pressing response to hand over the hideous upsurge in the killings.
“What would a teenager need money to enact even to the extent of killing and beheading a human being for money rituals?
“It is some distance the tip of the deprecation of societal values; as a consequence of this fact, all hands should be on deck straight to revive upright sanity and pristine mores in the society.”
To this extinguish, Olayiwola stated the 27th Annual Ramadan Lecture of the Ansar-Ud-deen Society slated to stay with it Saturday April 9 in the nation’s capital, has been themed: ‘Ramadan: Family Designate and Nation Constructing’.
“Of us accept as true with uncared for their roles. So, we are attempting at reviving family values and highlighting the importance of parental care.
Where there is an absence of family values, it leaves a destructive invent on the nation,” he added.
The chairman additionally stated that the public lecture would feature a different prayer for the nation to survey divine intervention to extinguish insurgency, banditry, kidnappings and other challenges bedeviling the nation.
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He appealed to all Nigerians to join the society to pray for leaders and the generality of Nigerians for Allah’s intervention in the challenges facing the nation
Olayiwola additionally cautioned that Muslims should now not correct abstain from ingesting and ingesting for the duration of Ramadan, pretty they desire to make certain they did factual deeds and shun all vices.
He described Ramadan interval as a rare privileged month to love, adding that pretty hundreds of rewards abound in it for solving challenges that they’re typically facing.
”Therefore, we implore the public to are trying to enact additional non secular contributions to alleviate the sufferings of the less-privileged amongst us either without delay to call participants or through partnership with Ansar-Ud-deen. Right here’s with a scrutinize to complementing the executive’s efforts to promote peace and calmness in the nation,” he stated.