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Eid-El-Fitr: Keep your spirit up in spite of COVID-19, Buhari tells Muslim faithful

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Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari has charged Muslims to keep their spirits up in spite of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, “which caught the world off guard, and has put a damper on what would otherwise have been a time of celebration for the Muslim faithful to mark the end of the Ramadan fasting period.”

This is even as he has assured Nigerians that the lockdown measures currently in place to check the spread of the virus, would not go on longer than necessary because they would be reviewed from time to time to ease the increasing hardships on the people.

The President gave the charge in his Sallah message to Muslims on the occasion of Eid-el-Fitr, according to a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.

According to the President, “for the first time in recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on the people’s spiritual, social and economic lives.”

He added, “this year’s fasting period was particularly challenging for Muslims because they had to forgo many important aspects of their daily worship, including the routine congregations for prayer and the recitation and interpretation of the Holy Qur’an as well as traveling for the lesser pilgrimage to Makkah.”

Buhari said that “it is not easy to give up many of these important duties and activities, but it became imperative to do so in order to control or limit the spread of this deadly disease.”

“Let me use this opportunity to commend the sacrifices of both Muslims and Christians for their cooperation in the enforcement of the social distancing guidelines. I am well aware of the inconveniences these tough measures have brought on the lives of Nigerians, including limiting religious activities and gatherings in large numbers,” he noted, adding that “No government would intentionally impose these tough and demanding measures on its citizens if it had a choice.”

President Buhari also appealed to Nigerians “whose businesses and means of livelihoods were badly affected by the prolonged lockdown measures for their understanding and cooperation.” He assured Nigerians that the lockdown measures would not go on longer than necessary because they would be reviewed from time to time to ease the increasing hardships on the people.

Buhari also urged those with means to continue helping their neighbours and the less privileged “so that we can all come out of this pandemic stronger and more united.”

President Buhari told the Muslim faithful that “this year’s Eid event is an occasion for sober reflection rather than celebration because of the long shadows of gloom that the coronavirus has cast on people’s lives.”

He prayed to Allah to ease the hardship among the people as they struggle hard to flatten the curve, while wishing all Nigerians “Eid Mubarak.”

 

Ajiri Daniels

Ajiri Daniels

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