The Transparency Watch Initiative has described as acting outside religious rites a recent contest by the Zone 6 Mosque Committee, which was given part of a garden in Zuwais Street, Zone 6, by a garden owner but has today rebelled against the owner of Covenant Favor Garden on the siting of a Glo Max.
The TWI coordinator, Abba Umar, stated this during a reaction to a recent call by the Zone 6 Residents Association opposed to the siting of the max, giving false health reasons.
This is fallacy and just gimmicks as it is just politics of interest. The mosque committee wanted the Glo Max sited in their own side of the garden against the Covenant Favor Garden that got the deal approved for it.
The Transparency Watch Initiative, therefore, calls on authorities and the general public to disregard the antics of the mosque committee as well as the Zone 6 Residents Association.
They have been manipulated by the mosque committee. Where on earth does a religious body manage a garden? Presently, the Zone 6 Mosque Committee has deviated from their Islamic rites. Agreed that there are shopping complexes in the National Mosque, but a garden differs from a shopping complex.
We call on the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs to call the Zone Six Mosque Committee to order. And for the Residents Association, they should not allow the mosque management to drag them into a fight that is not worth it.
For example, an MTN Max sited at Millennium Park is sharing a fence with residential areas and Zenith Bank Gana Street at the heart of Maitama, and no one is talking. It is very unfortunate for bonafide residents to allow themselves to be dragged into an issue that is not worth it.
The mosque committee and the Residents Association promised to hold a world press conference on the issue tomorrow and possibly protest capable of causing chaos and anarchy; the security agencies should please also intervene.
