NASFAT warns traders against exploitation during Ramadan

The Deputy National Missioner of the Nasrul-Lahi-L-Fatih Society, Alhaji Abdulazeez Onike, has advised traders against unnecessary and unjust inflation of prices of foodstuffs during the Ramadan.

Onike said this during a news conference by the organisation in Ikeja to announce its programme for this year’s holy month.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Muslims faithful usually observe a 30-day fast period called Ramadan.

The cleric urged traders to desist from using substandard measures and scales to sell foodstuffs to their buyers before, during and after the Ramadan.

“This is against the will of Allah and the tenets of Islam,” he said, adding that Islam frowned on any form of corruption.

“Woe to the fraudsters,” he said.

Also, the National President of NASFAT, Alhaji Kamil Bolarinwa, while delivering his opening speech, said that Ramadan was a period of soberness for Muslims.

Bolarinwa quoted from the holy Quran, Chapter 16, verse 125, to buttress his claim, noting that “the holy month of Ramadan is a period to preach to Nigerians that there is only one God, who can ensure progress in the nation.

“It is an opportunity for us to invite and re-unite Muslims to the ways of Allah,” he added.

The association’s Ramadan Programme Chairman, Alhaji Remi Adeseun, said the fast period was a time to give back to the society.

Adeseun said the association would continue its welfare programmes of feeding the underprivileged and embarking on charity works throughout the month.

He said NASFAT would also hold a 10-day vigil starting from 10 days to the end of the Ramadan.