Fight Against Ebola Taken to Mecca
Senior Government officials currently in Islam’s holiest city of Mecca have called on Sierra Leone’s Muslim population to take advantage of the holy month of Ramadan, to offer prayers and sacrifices for divine mercy to stop the spread of the Ebola virus in the West African nation. (Photo: From left Moijue Kaikai and M.S. Kargbo praying for nation in Mecca)
In a joint appeal to the Muslim Community after Friday, 4th July, 2014 congregational prayers at the Grand Mosque of Mecca (Al-Masjid al-Ḥaram), Sierra Leone’s Minister of Social Welfare who also doubles as Chairman of the 2014 Sierra Leone Hajj Affairs, Hon. Alhaji Moijue Kaikai, Sierra Leone’s Ambassador in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, H.E Alhaji M.S. Kargbo and Special Assistant to H.E The President on Political and Religious Affairs, Hon. Nuru Deen Sankoh –Yillah asked Muslims to multiply their prayers, offer sacrifices and read the Holy Qur’an during this blessed month of Ramadan for the elimination of the deadly virus in their country.
It would be recalled that Sierra Leone’s President Dr. Ernest Koroma last Tuesday, 1st July, 2014 called on all Sierra Leoneans to join forces with the government to fight the dreaded Ebola virus disease threatening his country.
From left, Moijue Kaikai and M.S. Kargbo praying for nation in Mecca’s grand Mosque after Friday prayers today
In a televised address to the nation, the President said that the fight against Ebola should be a matter for everyone in the country. “This is not only a matter for our brothers and sisters in the Kenema and Kailahun districts, it is a fight for every one of us, everyone in the government, everyone in every political party, in every region, every district, city, town and village,” said the President.
The appeal by the Minister and the Presidential Aide who are currently in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on pre-arrangements for 2014 would-be Sierra Leone pilgrims and the Ambassador has been widely hailed.
Ibrahim Koroma is a Sierra Leonean student in neighbouring Qatar and he is currently in Mecca to perform Islam’s Minor Pilgrimage (Umrah). He described their action as “very timely.” He added that: “It is the right step in the right direction and it should be emulated in other quarters; as it is a clarion by no less a person than the father of the nation.
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