Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa — Page 24
24 maps and hold consultation about the places where the institutions should be started. I got their preliminary report while I was still in Nigeria. A day after I had constituted this com- mittee I turned on the radio inadvertently— it was time for news bulletin; an interview of the Governor of North West State (a Muslim area) was being broadcast. He said his State was backward in literacy and that he had declared a state of emergency, and was mustering all resources and expected people to cooperate with him. When I heard this I called an Ahmadi friend who had just joined us—the same whom I had told he would join the Movement before the sunset and he did forthwith. I guess members already know him through the paper ( Al-Fa d l ). He is a Deputy Secretary there and very well off and owns a Mercedes, I asked him to see the Governor and tell him that we were prepared to start immediately four schools, two for girls and two for boys, in the state and would need his cooperation in two ways, one that he should allot us land for the schools (for the obvious reason that we can not import it from abroad), and second that he should grant our teachers the entry