The Zamfara state Governor, Bello Mohammed Matawalle, has commended Khadimiyya for Justice and Development Initiative for donating 5 million naira to the victims of Tudun Wada Gusau Central Market fire that was gutted the market last month, the Director General on media to the governor, Yusuf Idris said in a statement Tuesday.
Governor Matawalle said the group is the only Non-government organisation that visited him and donated generously to the victims of the fire incident that destroyed over 60 shops and affected many households and traders.
He also urged them to extend their humanitarian work to the people affected by waves of banditry that have orphaned many children and made many married women widows especially in the northern parts of the country.
He said the organisation also needs to extend its area of support to education and health care especially to the orphans and less privileged children in order to support government in that direction.
He thanked the organisation’s leadership for the timely and brotherly visit and assured of prudent utilisation of the funds by the assessment committee, directing that the money should be handed over to the market damage assessment committee
Earlier while presenting the cheque to the governor, the National Treasurer of the organisation, Alhaji Muhammad Bello Nasarawa said they were in Gusau to formally present their little support to the victims of Tudun Wada Gusau Market fire disaster in order to reduce their hardship and to commiserate with the government and the people of the state.
He described the fire disaster as an act of God and urged victims of the fire to accept it as a test in good faith as God will surely provide more for them.
