Zamfara State’s Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Alhaji Suleiman Adamu Gummi, has vowed that his ministry would revive and improve Islamic Sharia in the state.
Speaking with newsmen in Gusau, the state capital, Gummi said his ministry is seeking support from relevant stakeholders and authorities to ensure that the Sharia legal system is properly entrenched in Zamfara.
“We are advising the citizens of the state to exercise patience with this present administration because it is new,” he added.
He called on Islamic clerics to fear Allah and be as truthful as to serve as counsellors to the state government.
Speaking earlier, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Malam Bashiru Surajo, commended Governor Dauda Lawal for appointing a renowned Islamic scholar like Suleiman Adamu Gummi as the Commissioner of Religious Affairs to revive the Sharia legal system in the state.
Recall that Zamfara State, under the leadership of Ahmed Sani Yarima, implemented the Sharia legal system, which in 2000 claimed many lives in Kaduna, Aba, and Umuahia, among other places in the country.
