The Jama’atul Izalatul Bidi’a Wa Ikamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS), has condoled the people and government of Sokoto syate over the fire disaster that razed Sokoto Central Market last week.
In a statement by the spokesperson of governor Aminu Tambuwal made available to ASHENEWS on Monday, the group also condoled the government and people of the state, as well as the Sultan and the Sultanate Council, over the death of the state’s former Commissioner for Home Affairs, Abdulkadir Jelani.
The National Chairman of the body’s Council of Ulama (the Learned), Shiekh Yahaya Jingur counseled the state government, to formalize future agreements with traders to whom shops and stalls are let, “in order to forestall a situation where the tenants take advantage of the non-existence of such undertaking to make it difficult for the state government to take full possession of its property.”
In a letter it presented to Tambuwal, the stated that it received the news of the fire disaster “with much sorrow and pity,” the group expressed sympathy “with the Sokoto state government and those people whose wealth were destroyed in the market during the painful distress incident.”
Jingir prayed that Allah replaced the loss of the traders with multiplied measure of what they lost and also enable the state government to rebuild the burnt market.
In his response, Tambuwal appreciated the concern of the group, saying the state government is looking forward to reconstructing the mart.
“It was going to be Herculean task because government would have to find ways of letting stall tenants know that the stalls are the state’s property and would be operated as such,” Tambuwal said.
He decried a situation where some of the tenants have over the years monopolized the respective property; and even have the audacity to pass them on to their kiths and kind as legacies.
The governor also emphasized that government will give more attention to enlightening the people on the significance of paying Zakkat as that is the Islamically prescribed way of purifying wealth and saving such from the dangers of uncertain loss or destruction.
