By Our Correspondent
The Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abba Yusuf, has upgraded the five-daily-prayer mosque of Kano College of Education and Preliminary Studies (KACEPS) to a Juma’at mosque.
Commissioning the newly constructed mosque at the college premises on Friday, the State Commissioner for Higher Education, Dr. Yusuf Kofarmata, stated that the government has made the decision in good faith and promised to provide similar upgrades at all state-owned tertiary institutions.
He highlighted that among other reasons are to address road conjunctions, improve accessibility for lecturers, students, and the host community to fulfill their obligations without any huge.
According to him, other reasons are to serve as a center for Islamic propagation, and research, whereby Islamic lecturers and home-based Ulama (Malam Zaure) can converge to discuss socio-economic and political issues bedeviling societal development and the state at large for possible solutions. “The scope of the mosque is a center that looks into social, economic, as well as political development of the society,” Kofarmata maintained.
He tasked the Imam and mosque committee to ensure that only Islamic activities and other societal developments are conducted, not to be allowed as an incitement platform especially during sermons, the commissioner emphasized.
Dr. Yusuf Ibrahim thanked those who invested their wealth in the construction of the mosque and commended all the former principals who actualized the dream. He advised them to establish a College’s council for rapid development.
Representative of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, the Wazirin Kano, Alhaji Sa’idu Abubakar GiÉ—aÉ—o, urged the public to make the best use of the mosque by performing prayers and propagating Islamic moral values that would enhance societal development.
The College’s Provost, Dr. Sunusi Yakubu Ahmad, thanked Governor Yusuf, for the upgrade of the mosque and expressed appreciation to the Commissioner for Higher Education for his unflinching support and cooperation towards the development of state-owned tertiary institutions.
The first civilian governor of Jigawa State, Barr. Ali Sa’ad Birnin Kudu, former college principals, Walin Gadanya Alh. Muhammad Tukur Gadanya, members of the academia from various institutions, staff of the ministry, students, and the host neighboring community attended the congregational Friday prayer led by Wazirin Kano.
