PHOTOS: Jigawa Group organizes Special Prayer Over Security, Hardship

From Ali Rabiu Ali, Dutse A group known as Sawaba Humanitarian Initiative has conducted a special prayer for an end to insecurity and economic challenges causing severe hardship to Nigerians. The special prayer was held in Dutse, capital of Jigawa state, after all effort by security agents to stop the organisers failed. Hundreds of people […]

From Ali Rabiu Ali, Dutse

A group known as Sawaba Humanitarian Initiative has conducted a special prayer for an end to insecurity and economic challenges causing severe hardship to Nigerians.

The special prayer was held in Dutse, capital of Jigawa state, after all effort by security agents to stop the organisers failed.

Hundreds of people who participated in the special prayer, expressed worry over the future of the country as poverty, hunger and diseases kill people on daily basis while those in authority or power show no concern about it.

Speaking to journalists after the special prayer, the National president of Sawaba Humanitarian Initiative, Comrade Umar Danjani Hadejia, said the situation in the country is becoming very unbearable to common man.

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“I couldn’t control my tears after seeing starvation is dealing with elderly people, women and children in rural communities of Jigawa State.

“No right thinking political leader will have a peaceful sleep after seeing what I saw in several villages,” he said.

Danjani said he was moved by the terrible hardship he saw in those communities, where households were mortgaging their properties to eat while others were outrightly disposing the properties for their houses upkeep.

He, however, announced that a similar prayer session will be in all the local government areas of the stat

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