10/05/2017
PRESS RELEASE
Ambode Enjoins Mosques and Churches to Pray for Lagos at 50
While reiterating that prayers have been playing crucial roles in the enhanced harmonious relationship being enjoyed in Lagos, His Excellency, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has enjoined all mosques and churches, across the State, to organize special prayers for enhanced peace and harmony, as well as accelerated socio-economic development, while marking 50th anniversary in Lagos.
He said mosques in the State should carry out special sermons and praying sessions during the Jumat Services on Friday 19th May, 2017, while churches should do same on Sunday 21st, May 2017.
While expressing his determination to always pay attention to the spiritual content of his developmental initiatives, Ambode expressed his resolve to upscale public participatory initiative in State’s policies and programmes. He, thus, informed that, through the Ministry of Home Affairs, more collaboration for mutually rewarding relationship, between the State and the faith based organisations, are in the pipeline.
While expatiating, he said the State has began enumeration of worship centers in Lagos, and that so far more than 10,000 data of mosques and churches has been imputed into the website. Moreover, Nigerian Inter-Religious Council, Lagos Chapter (NIREC), whose contributions to the harmonious relationship and peaceful co-existence in the State have been quite impressive, would soon have bigger scope, more depth, wider reach for better efficiency, when the body is decentralized to the 57 LCDAs/LGs, and its activities, further extended to all wards in the State.
He surmised that through commitment to excellence, greater public involvement and support, perseverance for merit, faith in the possibility of greater Lagos as SMART city of our collective dreams, which is achievable through constant prayers and supplications to Almighty God, Lagosians will continue to thrive from the prevailing peace, security and state of accelerated socio-economic and infrastructural development In Lagos.