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COVID-19: How Palliatives Can End Agitation For Reopening Of Mosques, Churches - MURIC

COVID-19: How Palliatives Can End Agitation For Reopening Of

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has asked state governments to consider giving palliatives to imams and pastors to cushion the effect of COVID-19 measures on them, adding that such gesture will address the agitation to reopen churches and mosques.

AllNews had reported the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu as reeling out fresh guidelines and conditions which must be met before the state government would allow religious centres to resume their normal activities.

In a statement issued on Wednesday,  MURIC Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, pointed out that the open demand by certain religious leaders for their places of worship to be reopened lends credence to the pressure being faced by clerics during the lockdown.

Akintola maintained that the present realities of the Nigerian economy necessitates government’s attention ”particularly as they affect keepers of the house of God”.

The statement reads in part, “Even the recent decision by some state governments to reopen religious centres is not unconnected with subterranean agitations from clerics in the states. Deserted for weeks, the house of God longs for warmth.

“The impact of the economic nosedive on imams and pastors cannot be overemphasized particularly for a country whose proletariat is overworked, underpaid and overtaxed.”

“MURIC therefore advises the various state governments to speedily devise means of getting special palliatives to the clerics in the churches and mosques.

“They deserve attention at this crucial moment because they have nowhere to go. They should not be turned to beggars. They have served the government at various times. They should not be abandoned in their hour of need.

“Besides, members of their families deserve decent lives as Section 33 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria stipulates the right to life for every citizen while Section 34 confers the right to the dignity of the human person.”

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