Africa Speaks — Page 26
The SUNDAY POST dated April 19, carried the following report: AHMADIYYA TO BUILD MEDICAL CENTRES The Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission have completed arrangements to set up medical centres in various parts of the country, as part of its contribu tions torwards the post-war reconstruction work in Nigeria. Disclosing this to reporters, shortly before he flew out to Ghana yesterday, the supreme head of the World Ahmadiyya Muslim Organi sation, Hazrat Hafiz. M irza Nasir Ahmad, said that qualified doctors and surgical specialists would be sent from Pakistan to administer the hospitals. The renowned world Muslim leader had been in Nigeria for the past week on a good-will tour to the West African Ahmadiyya Muslim Com munities. Hazrat Ahmad further stated that arrangements, to build four secondary schools in the North-Western State of the country, were being carried out between himself and the Military Governor of the State Commissioner --Usman Farouk. Delivering his farewell address to hundreds of Muslims who besieged the airport to see him off, Hazrat Ahmad urged them to remember that they are the sons and daughters of a great land which is rich in natural and human resources. "You have a great future which is greater than you can imagine provided you establish a living link with our Lord and Master, Allah", he affirmed. 25