Sheikh Muhammad Nuru Khalid, the former Chief Imam of the National Assembly Legislative Quarters Mosque, believes his dismissal was a price he paid for Nigerians who have no voice.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, the Imam was ultimately fired on Monday, just a few days after he was suspended following a sermon in which he attacked the present government’s incapacity to address the security issue.
Imam Khalid responded to the sack, which has sparked outrage across the country, by saying that the mosque’s decision was a necessary price he had to pay for connecting with the suffering masses and speaking truth to power.
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Sheikh Khalid told Newsmen on Monday night that the Management Committee of a new Jum’mat Mosque behind the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Quarters, Abuja, had offered him a new position.
According to him, he will take over as pastor of his new church on Friday, April 8.
“My sack is a reflection of how Nigeria is now,” he says. Many people use religion as a cloak to engage in all kinds of nefarious activities.
“Such individuals will go to any length to remove someone like me.”
“This is the cost of standing with the people and empathizing with their plight.
“By the Grace of Almighty Allah, I will be leading my new congregation this Friday, because as clerics we need a platform to operate.
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“There’s a Jum’mat mosque we built behind the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Quarters, in Abuja; I will now be leading the congregation there.”
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