The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has said that special palliatives should be given to Pastors and Imams to help cushion the effect of COVID-19 lockdown.
The Islamic group said that such will also help reduce the agitation from those calling for the reopening of churches and mosques in Nigeria.
A statement signed by MURIC director, Ishaq Akintola reads: “Like many countries of the world, Nigeria has been under government-imposed lockdown for nearly two months. The citizenry is restless. People are hungry. The open demand by certain religious leaders for their places of worship to be reopened lends credence to the pressure clerics are going through. 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 |||READ MORE
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