Taming The Anti-Hijab Crisis: MSSN Cries Out, Says Muslim Girls Are Forced To Remove Hijaab For WAEC Capturing In Ogun

In Ogun State, a disaster that many thought had been settled by the best courtroom within the land is elevating its ugly head once more, as Muslim feminine college students are allegedly being terrorised, harassed and compelled to take away their Hijaab throughout WAEC capturing and different faculty actions.

The alarm was raised by the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN), Ifo/Ota Area Council, which mentioned it has been inundated with complaints from harmless, peace-loving college students who have been compelled to tug off their Hijaab, with threats that refusal might have an effect on their examination outcomes.

According to the MSSN, the intimidation has turn into worse in public colleges and examination centres, the place the hateful angle has been taken to what it described as a “lawless height,” leaving younger women humiliated, frightened and traumatised at a time they need to be centered on their future.

“It is sad to note that female Muslim students are still being terrorized for Hijaab in Ogun State, worse more in public schools and examination centers,” the Council mentioned in a strongly-worded assertion signed by its Amir, Engr. Sulaimon Gbola Akinjobi.

The MSSN insists that the acts aren’t solely provocative, however alien to WAEC necessities. No rule of the West African Examinations Council, it argued, mandates a Muslim pupil to take away her Hijaab for capturing, examination or some other faculty exercise.

More importantly, the group says the observe is a flagrant affront to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which ensures freedom of faith, and a direct defiance of the landmark June 2022 Supreme Court ruling which affirmed that the Hijaab proper is totally protected and stays inviolable.

Following the studies, the MSSN mentioned it instantly communicated with the Zonal Officer (ZO), who reaffirmed that no pupil must be compelled to take away her Hijab, and additional instructed that consultants and college employees should permit Hijaab for prepared college students.

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Building on that assurance, the Council has now urged all Principals to make sure that no Muslim pupil is compelled to take away her Hijab for any capturing or threatened along with her examination outcomes, and that consultants and employees are correctly briefed to keep away from additional harassment.

The MSSN additionally appealed to Muslim college students to stay calm and proceed to behave as peaceable ambassadors, whereas remaining steadfast of their obligations as characters of modesty, which it described because the hallmark of Hijaab tradition.

In a passionate enchantment to conventional rulers, faculty authorities, political leaders and authorities businesses, the Council urged them to watch the actions of what it referred to as “agents of disharmony and crisis who are bent on ridiculing established laws to ignite chaos.”

“Hijaab is doctrinally legislated for us as Muslims in Al-Qur’an and we don’t impose it on anyone,” the assertion mentioned. It reminded Nigerians that the much-talked-about ambiance of non secular peace in Southern Nigeria is on account of Southern Muslims taking tolerance to unbelievable heights for communal concord, and appealed for reciprocal goodwill so all can reside in mutually shared love.

The MSSN Ifo/Ota Area Council, which copied the MSSN Ogun Area Unit, the Honourable Commissioner for Education, Ogun State, the Commissioner of Police, Ogun State, and NOP NIGERIA News, mentioned it stays open to dialogue and collaboration, whereas pledging dedication to justice, decency and concord, and opposing oppression and lawlessness in all its types.

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