Kebbi govt warns clerics against inciting sermons

The Kebbi State authorities has cautioned spiritual leaders successful the authorities against delivering sermons susceptible of inciting the nationalist against the medication of Governor Nasir Idris.

The authorities said the contiguous medication has made notable contributions to the improvement of Islam and spiritual institutions successful the state, stressing that claims suggesting different were misleading and a deliberate effort to distort facts and provoke nationalist resentment.
The Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Muhammad Sani Aliyu issued the informing during a property briefing successful Birnin Kebbi.

Aliyu urged spiritual leaders to stay focused connected their superior work of providing spiritual guidance to the nationalist alternatively than allowing themselves to beryllium drawn into governmental disputes that could mislead followers.

He was reacting to caller criticisms by an Islamic preacher, Bashir Jega, who reportedly claimed that the existent medication had done small to enactment spiritual activities successful the state.

The commissioner described the remarks arsenic inaccurate, insisting that the authorities had taken important steps to fortify spiritual institutions and beforehand Islamic affairs.

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