The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Welfare Commission, John-Kennedy Opara has commended the Kwara State Government on its various developmental programmes, especially in health, education and electricity as well as job creation and entrepreneurship development despite the state’s financial constraints.
Opara gave the commendation while paying a courtesy visit on the State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed as part of his commission’s sensitisation visit to Kwara State on the 2014 Christian pilgrimage.
Opara acknowledged the government’s various endeavours on education, job creation and entrepreneurship and especially in the health sector where the governor has launched a world class diagnostic centre in the state.
“It is only a leader who wishes his people well that can think the way you think in the provision of healthcare facilities,” Opara told the governor. “Your commitment to the people of Kwara State leaves no one in doubt where this state will be in the years to come. You have come as a symbol of unity and as a symbol of change.”
Opara described pilgrimage as a tool for moral transformation, adding that pilgrims from Kwara State were good ambassadors of the state, displaying good conduct.
In his response, Ahmed urged Nigerians to see pilgrimage as a means of spiritual edification to make the country a better place.
Governor Ahmed urged Nigerians to always pray and work for good governance in the country, adding that there should be no compulsion in religion. He charged Nigerians to take positive advantage of the diversity in religion for the good of humanity by appreciating that such diversities are by God’s design.
