Muslim Youths in Lagos State have demanded for improved living standards for Nigerians as they mark the end of Ramadan.
The youths made the demand in an early morning Mubarak Walk and Sensitisation in Lagos, to mark the end of Ramadan.
They demanded for improvement in the living standards of Nigerians from President Muhammadu Buhari, State Governors and Local Government Chairmen.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the road show aroused patriotic zeal in youths other than the religious group, preached against conscience buying and selling during the forthcoming 2023 general elections.
Mr Al Mufutua Goriola, one of the Youth leaders, said the period of youths being conformist to maladinmistration was over.
He noted that youths will no longer sit on the fence while the society continues to drift.
Goriola frowned at the deplitating hunger the masses faced in the society.
He said the “hyper-inflation in the land” had contributed to masses starvation and illnesses that had led to untimely death of many.
Goriola said the spiritual rebirth of Ramadan should have bearing in people’s social life to spur them to ask questions and make demands that could foster social re-engineering for the common good.
“If you continue to be docile without holding leaders accountable, people’s living standards will not improve.
“Redeeming our collective social value in all ramifications is a lesson of the Ramadan. Therefore, it behoves us to change the trend that has made us indigent in a land of plenty.
“Our religious posture should not be a barrier for us to put ourselves in the scheme of things we know can improve our lives,” he said.
Goriola condemned youths parochial
attitude in the midst of social ill, urging people to resonate the spirit of Ramadan in their area of influence and be a game changer.
Also at the event, The Deputy Imam, Lagos State University Mosque, Mr Abdullmalik Lawal, said the essence of Ramadan should not be doing charity alone.
He said that people should look beyond now perspective and envisage latent social undoings and be proactive in nipping such in the bud before it blossomed to crisis the people would contend with.
Lawal advised Nigerians, especially in choosing leaders during the forthcoming general election, not to elect people that would make them remain in squalor.
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