Islamic Group To Support FG’s Anti-Corruption Fight

An Islamic group,  Just Foundation (JF),  has promised to support Federal Government’s anti-corruption campaign with the use of  religious leaders as a tool.

Imam Fuad Adeyemi, the Executive Director of the group,  said this on in Gbongan,  Osun,  during an advocacy visit to league of Imams in the state.

Adeyemi , who noted that corruption remained one of the greatest challenge in the country,  said that the foundation would trained Islamic clerics in t9he state on how to speak on the  negative effects of corruption and disseminate the same to their followers.

He said that the foundation had secured the support of an international donor agency , MacArthur Foundation to commence the anti-corruption fight.

Adeyemi said that after the training,  the clerics would fight corruption from the grassroots  through their teachings and preaching , while  government continues to fight from the top.

“As we all know,  one of the most religious country in the world is Nigeria and if you want anything done or undone,  you have to start from God’s house.

“And that is why we are starting the anti-corruption fight from the religious centre through the training of our imams in all aspects of governance and to teach their followers on the evils of corruption.

” We want to train our Islamic cleric on how to use God to appeal to our leaders to stop stealing and be transparent.
” Rather than constantly preaching prosperity, we  want to train our imams to speak against those who use their position to cheat and loot”.

Adeyemi,  who is also the Chief Imam of Al-Habibiyyah Islamic Society,  said the anti-corruptiin project would cover

six states of Kogi , Niger, Lagos , Osun , Kaduna and Abuja.

Also speaking,  Haha Rekiya Momoh-Abaji,  the  Coordinator of the group,  said that preaching against corruption by Islamic cleric would assist government’s anti-corrution war.

Momoh-Abaji said that the league of Imams are people who reach very many people  across the nation through their teachings.

” We want to train the Imams on how to use their teaching to tell people about the evil of corruption.

“They need to let people know that corruption is killing everybody and we need to kill it before it kills us all”.

Also, the Secretary of Osun league of Imam,  Alhaji Salaudeen Olaleye,  said that the training would assist Islamic clerics would go a long way in exposing the evil of corruption through their preaching.

Olayeye commended the foundation for bringing religious leaders into the fight against corruption through their teaching and preaching.