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The DAIL Y MAIL (May, 6) another leading paper of Freetown carried the fol/owing report on the reception. RELIGIOUS HEAD ARRIVES Ahmadiyya Movement plans to do more service to Sierra Leone. Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih III stated in Freetown last even ing a few hours after his arrival in Sierra Leone to begin a nine-day visit. My party and I are here to meet the people and your leaders so that we get to know details of the requirements of the country in order to do proper service. "We should be able, while we are here, to think, ponder and pray for Allah's guidance in making our decisions to do service as friends and fellow human beings, not as masters and servants", the 61 -year old religious leader added. Informal and smiling as he addressed a Press conference at the Lodge, Hill Station, Hazrat Ahmad pointed out, "our wealth lies in voluntary service". He explained how the Ahmadiyya Movement can get doctors, surgeons and physician specialists for Sierra Leone at less than one-quarter of the cost. Hazrat Ahmad who holds a master's degree of Oxford University in Philosophy, Economics and Political Science, declared that in five years time, the Ahmadiyya Movement will flood Sierra Leone with translations of the Holy Quran in English and set up a press in one year. "All human beings will be one like one family in years to come", Khalifatul Masih III prophesied. Mr. Edward Kargbo, Deputy lVIinister, Prime lVIinister's Office and Minister of State, Paramount Chief Jai Kai Kai and member of Parliament M. S. Mustapha were some distinguished who joined a cross section of Ahmadis from all walks of life in Sierra Leone to welcome the first religious leader to visit Sierra Leone after the Archbishop of Canterbury. Mr. A. K. Zubairu, General Secretary, represented the Sierra Leone Muslim Congress in welcoming the Caliph of the Promised Messiah and Mahdi. 73