Inter-ethnic Relations: Hausa Community in Ekiti Lauds Oyebanji, Aide, Hussein Bawa, wants Road linking Shasha Market Constructed

By Yemi Olajutemu

Ado Ekiti

Hausa Muslim Community in the Shasha Market Area of Ado Ekiti has said that they would continue to support the administration of Governor Biodun Oyebanji with prayers and other areas of concerns.

The ethnic and religious leaders made this known at the Shasha Market praying ground in Ikere Ekiti

Members of the Muslim Hausa communities from Ado and Ikere Ekiti availed the season to offer special prayers for the government of Ekiti state under the leadership of Governor Biodun Oyebanji saying that his administration portrayed unity in diversity and nationalism.

According to them, the inter-ethnic relations within the state had improved tremendously, laying the ground for peaceful co-existence.

The Seriki Hausa Alhaji Abdul Yusuf and the Chairman Hausa Community Ikere Ekiti Alhaji Musa Abdulhamid, as well as the Imam of the Community Alhaji Garba Danmalamia who lauded the Governor for the appointment of a member of the community, Mr Hussein Bawa as a Special Assistant said that the current administration was leaving no one behind in the effort to put the state in the limelight of economic and social development, offering a special prayers for the success of the administration.

The Hausa leaders pass a vote of confidence in the Governor and the aide calling on other state governments in the country to emulate the template adopted by governor Oyebanji in inter-ethnic relations.

The Hausa community also thanked the Governor for the distribution of Palliatives items to them in order cushion the effect of the current harsh economic situations noting that the items were distributed to all the members of the Hausa communities in the 16 local government areas of the state.

Some people who spoke with our Reporter explained that the Special Assistant to the Governor on Hausa Community Mr Hussein Bawa has proven to be an open minded man with honesty and integrity, doing everything with the fear of God as they charged him to continue being a good leader and representative.

They called the attention of the Government to the despair state of the road linking the market to the surrounding towns, saying that the road if constructed will ease transportation of goods, prevent of spoilage and reduce market prices.

The Hausa leaders called on members to live peaceably with their hosts charging them to refrain from hiking the price of their food produce.

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