As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to begin the Ramadan fast on June 6, Monday,President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a solemn message to Nigerians.He has advised traders not to increase the prices of goods and services.
The president in his message through his spokesman Garba Shehu said “the month of Ramadan is a time of spiritual reawakening which demanded not only abstention from food and drinks, but also all wrong doing in their lives. ”Buhari said he was always wondered why people search for making brisk profits by hiking food prices as soon as the month of Ramadan begins. The leader of the nation asked Muslim traders, businessmen and women, civil servants and political office holders to use the month of Ramadan to look for forgiveness of God by abandoning wrong practices for personal gains at the expense of others. “A religion should serve as a moral restraint from bad practices, regretting that those stealing national resources are merely paying lip service to religion,” the president stated. He urged leaders and those holding positions of trust to mainly remember that they would be accountable one day. “Government is working towards bringing relief to their lives through palliative measures and faithful implementation of the 2016 national budget,” Buhari added. According to him, no elected administration would deliberately want to make life difficult for the people who gave it the mandate to serve.
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