The minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, has donated a modern central mosque built in memory of his late mother, Alhaja Wulemotu Arike Oyetola to Iragbiji Community in Boripe local government area of Osun State.
While presenting the mosque to the community, Oyetola disclosed that building an ultramodern central mosque was a lifetime dream of her mother noting that the commissioning of the mosque was a fulfilment of that dream.
According to him, when his mother was installed as Iyalaje-Adini of the central mosque, and he asked her what she wanted him to do for her, she said that “she would want me to invite my friends to donate for the rehabilitation of the mosque.
“In that 2006, through my friends, I was able to raise N6.5 million. So, I now thought about what ordinarily she would have loved me to do for her if she was to be alive and I came to the conclusion that it is important for me to build a central mosque in her memory.
“I thank God and I appreciate the people who rallied to support particularly Asiwaju Musulumi of Yorubaland, Edo and Delta states, Alhaji Tunde Badmus. I thank my people from Iragbiji and I thank my friends.”
Commissioning the mosque, the Asiwaju Musulumi of Yorubaland, Edo and Delta states, Alhaji Khamiz Tunde Badmus, applauded the minister for fulfilling and actualising the dream of his late mother.
Badmus called on Muslims across the globe to emulate the gesture, adding that it is always rewarding to use one’s resources on everlasting legacies on the path of Islam.
