RAMADAN, 23 1429 A.H.
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 22 2008
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El-Hussein replies critics on Shekarau’s pattern of leadership
By NASSIRUMUHD.
IT has been observed that governor Ibrahim Shekarau-led government is sponsoring various Islamic programmes to remind Muslims of their religious injunctions, contrary to what is insinuated by some people that the government is claiming to be pious through religious propaganda only.
The observation was made yesterday by the Special Assistant to the state governor on Women Affairs, Hajiya Maryam El-Hussein, during a lecture she organised for women at Fatahul Islam Islamiyya School, Yar`Akwa,Kano.
``What the government is doing is to re-direct people towards treading the right path through right conduct.
``We thank God that our action is yeilding fruitful results in that direction, that is why people invoke the name of God before they begin anything these days, unlike what obtained in the past,’’ she said.
She then re-echoed her call to parents especially mothers to watch their utterances in the presence of their children, because whatever they say would naturally be copied by their children.
``We, as mothers, are the first school a child comes into contact with, the moment he or she comes into the world. So, if we give the child a good upbringing, he will be a good adult”, she stressed.
Hajiya Maryam then assured Islamiyya schools authorities that the state government would come to their aid as soon as possible, most especially in their youths reform programmes where it rehabilitates and trains them to become better citizens.
Speaking, proprietor of the school, who is also the Chief Imam of Yar`Akwa Central Mosque, Sheikh Ni`imatullah Rabiu, said under the programme the school receives youths of different age groups, within and outside the state.
He said some of them engaged in the misuse of Indian hemp and other related drugs while some engaged in stealing, but after staying in the institute for a while, they have become good citizens afterwhich their parents came to collect them.
In her speech at the occasion, Malama Hafsat Sheikh Isa Waziri, appealed to women to obey their husbands in whatever they order them to do in so far as it does not go contrary to the dictates of Islam.
She said it is only when they obey their husbands that the lifespan of their marriages could last long.
Another scholar at the occasion Malama Kubrat, called on parents to discourage their children most especially the females from wearing tight fitted clothes which attitude she said, encouraged fornication in society.
Women from all walks of life attended the lecture.
