Bello Mohammed Matawalle who is the Governor of Zamfara State, has openly charged the Zamfara State’s pilgrims who went for the 2022 Hajj to pray fervently for the restoration of peace and tranquillity in all parts of Zamfara State and Nigeria while they were in Saudi Arabia.
Governor Matawalle gave the directive while he was bidding farewell to 1,303 intending pilgrims from the state who will perform this year’s Hajj in the Holy land of Saudi Arabia. He had also reiterated that Zamfara State needed prayers against the menace of insecurity bedevilling it.
He explained that the rising spate of bandits’ activities ravaging the state had gotten to a head and thereby calls for divine intervention and that there was a need for the pilgrims to pray for peace to return in all parts of the state.
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The Governor also charged the pilgrims to be good ambassadors of the state and respect constituted authorities of both Nigeria and the host country of Saudi Arabia while in the holy land.
Matawalle noted that his administration has provided all necessary assistance in terms of logistics and support to the intending pilgrims to perform the Hajj exercise with relative ease.
“The state government has provided brand new vehicles for the transportation of the intending pilgrims right from Gusau, the state capital to Sultan Abubakar International Airport, Sokoto,” he said.
In another report, Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has also approved the appointment of 169 top government officials and aides which he approved in a bid to promote unity within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
This is contained in a nine-page official document issued by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Kabiru Balarabe, on Saturday in Gusau.
He announced that Alhaji Isha Umar had been appointed Chairman, Zamfara Independent Electoral Commission, while Alhaji Usman Magami and Alhaji Bashir Abdullahi were appointed as Special Advisers.
Others are 103 Senior Special Assistants (SSAs), 28 Directors General, and 13 Special Assistants to the governor. The list also included 10 new Permanent Commissioners and part-time members of various Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), including the Hajj Commission and Law Reform Commission, among others.