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WAEC SUPERVISOR ASSAULTS FEMALE MUSLIM CANDIDATE
5th September, 2016

MURIC PRESS RELEASE:

WAEC SUPERVISOR ASSAULTS FEMALE MUSLIM CANDIDATE

A female Muslim candidate writing the current examination of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Khadijat Eniola Anisere was assaulted by a female supervisor of WAEC at Egan Grammar School, Igando, Lagos State. The incident occurred while candidates were taking biology on Friday, 2nd September, 2016 between 9.30 am and 12 noon.

The WAEC supervisor who was shuttling from one center to the other arrived the center and entered the examination hall where the Muslim girl was seated among many other candidates, clad in hijab. She approached the hijabite and ordered her to remove her hijab. Khadijah pleaded that hijab was her mode of dressing as a Muslim. She further pleaded that she would feel totally naked if she removed the head cover.

Obviously enraged and determined to enforce her illegal command, the WAEC supervisor yanked off the hijab from the poor girl’s head. Khadijah, whose examination was already interrupted, burst into tears. She cried throughout the rest of the examination period and was unable to continue taking the examination. The incident was reported by members of the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) at the human rights desk in Igando Police Station by 10 am on Saturday, 3rd September 2016.

MURIC strongly condemns this wanton assault on an innocent female Muslim teenager. It is most bizarre, highly barbaric and totally deplorable.

This is a hate attack and a blatant act of Islamophobia. We see it as part of a grand design to retard the progress of Muslim youths. Christian fanatics working in government agencies like WAEC have been instructed by hate preachers to create bottlenecks for Muslim youths by all possible means.

Section 38 (i) & (ii) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria not only grants freedom of religion but also stipulates its practice and manifestation. Hijab is therefore a legally recognized head cover for female Muslims. The supervisor’s order for the removal of the hijab was unlawful, unconstitutional and therefore ultra vires. The forceful removal of the candidate’s hijab constitutes assault in legal parlance.

The supervisor’s attack on Khadijah Anisere is a breach of Section 13 of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act (1991) which provides ‘’a public officer shall not do or direct to be done, in abuse of his office, any act prejudicial to the rights of any person knowing that such act is unlawful or contrary to any government policy’’

For whereas the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Article 4, Clause 1 & 2 affirm that “Human beings are inviolable. Every human being shall be entitled to respect for his life and the integrity of his person”, the WAEC supervisor chose to derobe the innocent Muslim girl in public.

MURIC demands justice for Khadijah Anisere. Nigerian Muslims will not fold their arms and watch their daughters dehumanised by Christian fanatics. WAEC must identify this extremist supervisor and discipline her. People like her are responsible for series of religious crises that have resulted in loss of lives and destruction of properties worth billions of naira. What Nigeria needs most today is peace and stability and our public institutions cannot afford to create unnecessary tension at this point in time. We assert that justice is the soul of peace and whoever denies one can never enjoy the other.

We therefore demand a public statement from WAEC on the supervisor’s identity and the official reprimand failing which WAEC should blame itself for the reaction of Muslims. Nigerian Muslims also want to know what palliative WAEC has in store for the innocent girl who was rudely disturbed during the biology examination. Will she fail biology?

We also appeal to the Federal Ministry of Education to restrain examination bodies from imposing anti-Muslim rules on registration guidelines.

Here lies the real anatomy of terrorism and religious violence. Fanatical officials use their positions to victimize Muslims everyday in Nigeria. The natural corollary can only be likened to smoke from fire.

Nonetheless, we appeal to Muslims throughout the country to remain calm and law abiding as WAEC and the Ministry of Education take steps to address the matter. We advocate dialogue in place of spontaneous or premeditated violence. Muslim youths are warned not to take the law into their hands.

Professor Ishaq Akintola,

Director,

Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)
http://drishaqakintola..com.ng/2016/09/waec-supervisor-assaults-female-muslim.html

ganagagi:
Its very necessary for Muslim female to not expose their body outside as such she should always be in hijab when going out.that's what Muslims are urged to do Quran says ولا يبدون زينتهن...........they should not expose their body outside ,in fact if its my daughter I will take that supervisor to court

zionwest:
Chai!..when they write another WAEC??

Hatrik:
Is waec exam not may/June again abi how many time is it written in a year.


seriously the way people take religion this days ehn hmmm is very alarming

youngweb:
why wouldn't she remove it Is it part of her school uniform

RealJaneDoe:
yes its is good if you know the kind expo they carry all in the name of hijab. Let them remove it.

Anything that can cause cheating should not be allowed.

We should not be blinded by religion so much so that we allow means that will lead to cheating

Muslims be like

tintingz:
I'm a Muslim and the way MURIC construct their letter looks like a Muslim and Christian war thing which I will not support.

There are rules for everything, if WAEC doesn't allow hijab in exam hall all candidate should abide to it but if vice versa is the case then the WAEC official is a religious bigot.

LucifersTongue:
I took my time to read 13 pages of this horseshit.

Same people who agree with NPA and immigration to reject a woman based on dressing are now in disagreement on the other extreme side of the dress code issue.

Many of the people on one side of this are implicitly and/or explicitly making threats to behead the woman and act violently. People get banned for less on nairaland.


Religion is now in full control as it affects almost all policy and decision making process in this country.


Nigeria isn't safe. Tik tok tik tok...

Sj11:
Muslims are the problem the hole world is facing today......i don't see anything wrong if a supervisor ask her to remove what ever she's wearing on her head during exams...muslims should stop looking for problems where their's none.

RABIUSHILE04:


Guy, u r indeed the most stupid person. Is hijab illegal ni?! Abi aw ppl dey think foolishly like dis...oma wa ga o!!! O ponu gan!!!!!

dragonking3:
Buhari daughters are Muslims and they have never been seen wearing hijab, which means that wearing hijab is not compulsory..Stop all these lies of exposing their body.. Is zahra Buhari exposing her body in this picture?

kabrud:

Is that the first time a female candidate is writing exam with hijab? One bigot christian invigilator cannot just come and exhibit her hatred and go free. We shall see the end of this case.

discusant:
Because of what she was covering hair with, a young girl refused to complete her final exams after about vsix years preparation at high school.

That means the girl didn't place premium on her education. Her religion is more important to her than her education and her future.

mrlamdee88:
Her only hope of expo has been taken away,so she had to cry through out the examination because she had nothing to write..sorry ehn,no b today una start

mrnigeria:
funny that MURIC would call the invigilator a fanatic.

Has he been blind or deaf all these while not to know what his own religion's fanatics have been doing

HYPOCRITE OSHI.

VhatAmazingDude:
In my opinion, he should have asked her to choose between the examination and wearing an attire that interferes with smooth running of the examination, just to give her a chance. In his shoes though, I don't think I will allow that. Garments that can conceal suspicious materials are not encouraged. We witnessed even tertiary institutions take examinations in singlets and underwears and aside from general murmurs, no special attention was sought. Does that mean the religion of those affected encourage Nudity?

Religion and Western Education ought not to conflict.

Why do they even need the identity of the supervisor sef? These people keep making themselves suspicious.

hanity:


Speak good or be quiet!
when you were even told or heard of your fellows death,did you take a sec to cry for them?no!
people will just come on NL and start acting like dey care.
Fake People Everywhere!