July 8, 2021
BY PROBLYN JOHN ALPHA
The Regional Secretary General Inter Religious Council Eastern Sierra Leone Sheik Mohamed Tamba Lebbie who also doubles as the Secretary General United Council of Imams in Kono District has told A-Z Multi Media that there are mixed feelings among Muslims following the one month suspension of congregational worship by President Julius Maada Bio on Wednesday 1st July, 2021 to curb the much talked about Covid-19 third wave in the country.
According to the Muslim scholar, the house of worship should have been one of the solution measures to the Covid-19 problem in the country and the world as a whole. He said people are expected to go and ask for forgiveness from worship places especially when the Covid-19 pandemic has ravaged so many lives.
Sheik Lebbie said that there is no problem or calamity bigger than God, adding that the house of worship should have remained open for prayers so that God will intervene and free the country and the world as a whole from the deadly corona virus pandemic.
He thanked his colleagues clergy for supporting the fight against the corona virus through their prayers and urged them not to relent now that the houses of worship have been closed tentatively. “As the Holy Books of God recognize leaders I encouraged all and sundry to obey the one month Presidential proclamation by maintaining the Covid-19 precautionary measures”. Sheik Mohamed Tamba Lebbie advised.
Meanwhile, local gossip say they are closely monitoring the Presidential order noting that as the house of worship are now closed they are expecting trade fares and other public gatherings to follow suit.