Governor Babagana Zulum declared the one-day fasting on Friday.
Residents of Borno State on Monday embarked on a day of fasting and prayer after Governor Babagana Zulum called for inter-faith spiritual intervention for peace to return to the troubled state.This is the first time the state would embark on such spiritual exercise since the beginning of the Boko Haram crisis about 10 years ago.
“I know we have ceaselessly sought divine intervention in our individual and group prayer sessions. These notwithstanding, this time around, I will like us to seek Allah’s intervention, not as individuals and groups, but as an entire state,” he said. “We should also be very deliberate that Monday , in giving help, particularly of food, to our nearest in need.
“I feel the trauma of hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens who have lost everything and have been forced to live in makeshift shelters and rely on food and non-food aid as internally displaced persons and refugees in neighboring countries. “The response to the call for fasting and prayer is massive here in Maiduguri from among the old and young. I teach in a Public school, I was shocked to find out that most of our students fasted today because they said the Governor declared so.
“And it is also good from many of the citizens who have responded within and outside the state. Prayer and fasting answereth all human, and we all pray that God should answer our prayers.”
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