Governor Bala Mohammed has commissioned a newly built Friday mosque at Yelwan Kagadama community of Bauchi state worth N40 million executed by the state government.
The governor while commissioning the mosque expressed delight with the successful completion of the reconstruction work on the decades-old historic Yelwan Kgadama Mosque.
Represented by the Deputy Speaker of the Bauchi State Assembly Danlami Ahmad Kawule, the governor said the government had reconstructed several moques in the state because of its care for religious affairs.
The chairman of the occasion and immediate past commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Abdulrazak Nuhu Zaki disclosed that the state government expended a whopping sum of N40 million towards the successful completion of the mosque reconstruction work.
Nuhu Zaki noted that without the intervention of Governor Bala Mohammed on the project, he could not foresee the possibility of completing the construction work which started 22 years ago.
Zaki commended the foresight of the Yelwa Muslim community led by Imam Mansur Isah Yelwa of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) who sought the assistance of the Bauchi state government in the completion of the mosque reconstruction work.
The former commissioner explained that as a sign of justice, equity and fair play coupled with the need for peaceful co-existence among the multi-religious community of Bauchi metropolis and its environs, the state government undertook the construction and reconstruction of both Mosques and Churches across the state.
This disposition of the government, he said, is geared to promote not only peaceful co-existence among the heterogeneous Bauchi community, but also to stimulate unity and brotherhood among the folkloric groups in the cosmopolitan environment.
The guest speaker at the occasion, ATBU, Bauchi Chief Imam, Dr. Mansur Isa Yelwa preached the need for unity among the Muslims Ummah for which the mosque was constructed to promote, hence universal message “The One Ummah, One Religion, One God”.