MICA tasks Muslims on purposeful leadership

The Movement for Islamic Culture and Awareness (MICA) on Saturday in Abuja held its maiden convocation for the 62 graduands of the MICA Leadership Academy (MLA).

National Ameer (President) of the group Justice Wale Abiru noted that one of the fundamental challenges facing Muslims and which in turn affect the society was lack of effective leadership by Muslims. He wasn’t referring to political leadership.

“I did not mean political power or political leadership. For example in South Africa where Muslims constitute only seven percent of the population, they were able to demonstrate the essence of Islam so much that they are much sought for including in employments because employers know they are going to get the desired value, they (Muslims) are always being looked for because a Muslim is honest and dependable. In South Africa there are four kinds of Jaiz Bank and are fully operational, but in Nigeria we are still struggling to make one viable despite being 60 percent in population of the country,” Justice Abiru explained.

He also urged Muslims to take Islam beyond celebration of the birth day of Prophet Muhammed and other festivities but to be practical in their living Islam as was practiced by the earlier Muslims that everyone were making reference of.

Coordinator of the Academy, Alhaji Abdulbaasit Bolaji Bakare, said the academy is aimed at developing and promoting the quality of leadership, management, public speaking, entrepreneurial and community responsive skills of Muslims.

“In its quest to return the Muslims to the Excellence of the past, MICA Abuja Chapter established MICA Leadership Academy to train the next set of generation leaders. We have 62 (39 males and 23 females) inductees from the MICA Leadership Academy with an Associate Certificate of MLA,” he said.

“Leadership, corporate governance and business can no longer survive on emotions, sentiments, wrestling of donkey and rule of thumb,” he said.