(Oluseye Ojo, IBADAN)
The Muslim community in the University of Ibadan has donated food items, clothes and other materials worth N3million to the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Northern part of Nigeria.
The Chief Imam, UI Mosque, Prof Oloyede Abdul-Rahman, handed over the items to the officials of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) for onward delivery to the IDP camps, especially the people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgents.
The items, comprising clothes, shoes, edible items and other condiments, were received by Mr. Seyi Aina, who represented the NEMA zonal coordinator in the South West, Mr. Sulaiman Yakubu.
The Chief Imam of UI Mosque, Prof Abdul-Rahman, said the gesture was to show the present administration in the country, being led by President Muhammadu Buhari, that the UI muslim community is in support of the campaign against insurgency in Nigeria, as the Nigerian Army retakes territory from Boko Haram.
“We are donating these items to the IDP camps to let the Federal Government know that the UI muslim community is in support of its action against Boko Haram.
“The insurgents presented themselves as Muslims and that they are fighting the cause of Islam. We donated these items to show that a group of Muslim is in support of the campaign against insurgency in the country,” he said.
The representative of NEMA, Seyi Aina, thanked the UI Muslim community on behalf of the zonal coordinator, South West, and the Director General of the agency, Alhaji Muhammad Sidi, for the gesture.