The Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI, and the Christian Council of Nigeria, CCN, has commended the Director General, State Services, DGSS, Oluwatosin Adeola Ajayi, for an event of breaking of Ramadan Iftar and religious harmony amongst Christians and Muslims in the country.
They described the event, which several less privileged persons and those with special needs in the city benefitted from, as a gesture of love and peace that comes with Ramadan.
Present at the event are Muslim faithful and scholars amongst whom were Secretary General Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), Prof. Khalid Aliyu Abubakar, Senior Imams, National Mosque Abuja, Prof. Kabir Adam, Bar. Harun Muhammad Eze, Imam National Mosque. Also present were Sheikh. Dr. Tajuddeen Adigun, the Chairman, committee of FCT Imams, Imam Fuad of Al-Habibiyyah Mosque and Dr. Bashir Abdullahi Ismail – Imam FOMWAN.
While speaking, Prof. Abubakar noted that Mr. Ajayi, despite being the son of a Christian cleric, thought it significant to assemble Muslims and Christians across the Federal Capital (FCT) to the break of the Muslim fast.
Also Rev. Fathers Peter B. Audu, Michael Banjo, and Boniface Idoko of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, as well as Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) officers in the FCT, lauded the DSS boss for his leadership style which they said has helped made Nigeria safer.
Other CAN officers included Reverend Canon Smart Simon, Reverends Saboyaro Adams, Nicodemus Izuchukwu, Timothy Amazon, and Ogbonife Nnamdi, as well as Snr. Special Apostle Beneni Iyaye lauded the DSS boss for promoting religious harmony and demonstrated true love for others as taught by Christ.
The Intelligence chief, it was gathered, will extend the same treatment to the Christian community, who also would be commencing the Lenten season.