The Nasrul-Lahi-L-Fatih Society Nigeria (NASFAT) has advised parents on the need for good parenting to curb crime in society.
The Muslim group made the call on Monday during a prayer that marked the end of 2022 Ramadan period that which had lasted 30 days.
The society had gathered at NASFAT Islamic Centre in Aseese, Ogun, to end the period of faithful’s spiritual rebirth, make worshippers deepen their faith in the religion and pray for peace in Nigeria.
The NASFAT’s Chief Missioner (CM), Imam Abdul Azeez-Onike, regretted youths involvement in social and unwholesome conducts including kidnapping and illicit drugs consumption.
He said that parents need to be alive to their responsibilities and ensure good parenting to halt crime in society.
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According to him, the future of the society will be bleak if both parents and the authorities do not make concerted efforts to re-orient youths on acceptable societal values.
“The society is drifting. This is the time for everyone to preach social redeeming value to the younger ones to redirect their perspective toward national value orientation,’’ he said.
He encouraged Muslim faithful to remain resolute in their faith to claim good reward in eternity.
Onike asked worshippers to always pray for peace in the country.
He also urged the Federal Government to adequately fund the nation’s security operatives to enable them protect the citizens against banditry and other heinous crises.
Also, the Chairman of the Central Ramdan Committee, Mr Kamar Olawuyi, said that Ramdan was an injection ascribed for growth.
Olawuyi urged Nigerians to show love to one another, shun hatred and bad blood for a better society.
According to him, the essence of the Ramadan period will be lost if peoples’ ways of life were fraught with self-centeredness and other misconducts that bring perennial conflicts and crises to the society.
Similarly, Alhaji Salihu Sule-Enehe, Acting Executive Chairman, Kogi State Internal Revenue Service (KGSIRS), felicitated with His Royal Highness, the Maigairi of Lokoja, and the Chairman, Lokoja Traditional Council, Alhaji (Dr) Muhammadu Kabir-Maikarfi III, OON, on the auspicious occasion of his 30th year anniversary as monarch.
The chairman described Kabir-Maikarfi ascension to the exalted throne of his grandfather 30 years ago as “apt” and “a blessing” to Kogi and Nigeria as a whole.
Sule-Enehe, gave the fecilitation in a statement signed and issued in Lokoja by the KGSIRS Head, Corporate Communication Unit, Alhaji Muhammad Mukhtar-Idris on Tuesday.
“To us in KGSIRS, His Royal Highness is a pillar of tax ambassadorship in the State, describing him as an epitome of wisdom, sincerity and uprightness.
“It’s because of that tha we hold His Royal Highness in high esteem for his all inclusiveness in the Lokoja Traditional Council, which has translated into greater development in the Lokoja Emirate Council.
“Your great support for taxation in the Lokoja Traditional Council has given the Service the strength and inspiration for its seamless operations in the confluence city, ” the chairman said.
Also, the Acting Executive Chairman, said that the monarch remains an invaluable proponent of taxation in the Lokoja polity given his total commitment, support and fatherly roles.
He said that the paramount ruler was always interfacing between the Taxpayers and the Service during meetings in his palace to chart ways forward for the seamlessness of tax operations in his domain.
Sule-Enehe, on behalf of his Management and Staff of the Service, heartily congratulated His Royal Highness and the “entire emirate council on this historic day of his 30th year anniversary as the Maigairi of Lokoja.”