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CRISIS LOOMS AT NIGERIA LAW SCHOOL OVER HIJAB
Muslim
Sisters in Nigeria Law School, Lagos Campus, have petitioned
stakeholders on the insistence of the school authorities that they must
remove their head covering (hijab) for data capturing exercise.
Those
petitioned include the school’s director-general and deputy director
general, chairman, Nigerian Benchers, National Assembly Committees on
Judiciary and Human Rights, Muslim Students Society of Nigeria and
Muslim Lawyers Association.
In the petition made available to newsmen
in Ibadan yesterday, the Muslim sisters said that the school directed
those who wore Hijab during data capturing, to go back and make sure
that their ear lobes were exposed.
“This
directive did not go down well with us and we swiftly applied to the
office of the deputy director general to kindly exempt us from doing
data capture with ear lobes exposed. Rather than listening to our
complaints and show respect for our faith, the school authority ably led
by the DDG, Mrs TounAdebiyi, vehemently refused.
“She insisted that
the school authority would not shift ground. She claimed that about 80
per cent of the female Muslim students have complied. Even with the
intervention of the school’s MSSN leadership and the representatives of
the Muslim Lawyers Association, the DDG still insisted.
“Even when we
show the DDG an International passport data capture with hijab without
ear lobes been shown, the DDG stated that their own data capturing
machine would not perform effectively if the ear lobes are not shown,’’
part of the statement reads.
According to them, the school authority
had threatened to disallow any student that did not do the data capture
from sitting for the examination.
“Doing this data capturing by
removing our head covering is contrary to our religious beliefs, Islam,
which is recognised by Nigerian Constitution, and it will cause us
emotional and psychological trauma.
``I think Nigerian public should know what is going on in our Law School.
It
was in the same profession that female students for Call to Bar
ceremony MUST loose their hair and expose it irrespective of their
religious belief.
``Our representatives in the National Assembly as
well as well-meaning Nigerians should please come to the aid of our
Muslim female students to nip this breach of human rights in the name of
professional requisite in the bud,’’ they said.
Source: Leadership
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