Otuke Muslims get sh 80m mosques

Muslim communities in Lango have been requested to obey leaders in  power, educate their children and follow the Holy Qurans so as to be good Muslims.

This  request was made by the presidential advisor on Resident District Commissioners (RDC's), Hajji Mohamed Mayanja  at Otuke Town Council while presiding over the commissioning ceremony of  two Mosques.  

He challenged the Muslims to launch a Jihad against poverty and involve themselves in the leadership of the nation by contesting for different positions from LCI to LCIII so that they are elected to represent the interests of the nation.

"God said in the Holy Quran that nothing is better than knowledge and therefore, by educating your children you will have fought and eradicated poverty in your homes and the entire Muslim community," Mayanja who is also the former chairman of Uganda Muslim Parliamentary Caucus advised.

He encouraged  Muslims to  concentrate on four Jihads that include education, active participation in leadership, following the Holy Quran and obedience of leaders in power in order to be good Muslims

The Otuke Town mosque in Otuke town council and Okeloamone in Adwari Sub County were the first two permanently built mosques in the history of Otuke district.

Each mosque was built at a cost of shs 40m a donation by  Saudi Arabian business men and the Muslim communities. Each mosque is designed to seat 100 worshipers.

The representative of the Saudi business community Hashim Albar said the money donated for building the two mosques was fund-raised from the Muslim communities in the country.

He also promised the community of Otuke Town Council a borehole to address the problem of a clean water source in the area.

In his remark, the District Kahadi of Lango, Shaik Issac Nangoye thanked the Muslim community in Saudi Arabia for the offer of two permanently built mosques. He said it would address the problems and bring to an end conducting of prayers under the trees that Otuke Muslims had earlier used to.

He however sited disunity among the Muslim community in Lango as a challenge hindering a number of developments within this religion.