National Chief Imam blesses Muslim Youth in Agriculture project

The National Chief Imam Sheikh (Dr) Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, has urged Ghanaian Muslims to venture into agriculture to enhanced food security in the country.

The Chief Imam said this when the Managing Director of  Sky Dolphin Limited, Wisdom Mensah, paid a courtesy call on him at his residence at Fadama, a suburb of Accra on Monday.

Mr presented a gift to the National Chief Imam in support of the Chief Imam’s planned anniversary of the birth of Prophet Muhammad (Maulid) which comes off today October 5 at Fadama.

The National Chief Imam asked for Allah’s blessing for the success of the Muslim Youth in Agriculture project.

Mr Mensah is supervising the Muslim Youth in Agriculture project, a partnership between the Muslim community and the Sky Dolphin Limited, which involves novel aquaponics project, a mixture of fish farming and crop farming, aim at creating jobs for the teeming unemployed Muslim youth as well as vulnerable rural Muslim women.

The representatives of the Islamic Community on the Muslim Youth in Agriculture, aquaponics projects are Sheikh Mustapha Ibrahim, the founder and chairman of the Islamic Council for development and humanitarian services in Ghana (ICODEHS) and special advisor to the National Chief Imam,  Imam Mohammed Awal Alhassan, the Metropolitan Chief Imam of Takoradi and Greater Accra Chief Imam of the Dagomba Community, Sheikh Yusuf Farouk Alhassan Umar Yussifiya, the Imam of Yussifiya Mosque in Kumasi and Acting chairman of the National Hilal Committee of Ghana and Alhaji Khuzaima Mohammed Osman, Eminent Member and chairman of the Greater Accra Regional Peace Council of the National Peace Council of Ghana. Executive Secretary of the Tijjaniya Muslims of Ghana.

By Times Reporter