A group, Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria (MULAN) rose from their 5th annual general conference in Kaduna State, declaring that they will ensure that the introduction of Sharia legal system in the southern states as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.

The group said this against the backdrop that it concerns the determination of Islamic personal laws as it relates to marriage, divorce and inheritance.

The lawyers also called for an end to the trial of the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, demanding that the judicial process be accelerated to end his long travail and persecution.

In a communiuque at the end of the conference in Kaduna, MULAN said it would collaborate with the National Assembly to abrogate all discriminatory provisions in the constitution of Nigeria that tends to strengthen the settler/indigene dichotomy that has precipitated many crises in various parts of the country.

The communiqué signed by the National President of the body, Alhaji Tajudeen Oladoja, the body also urged the Federal Government not to hesitate to invoke its power under the constitution by declaring a state of emergency in any state of the federation plagued by ethno-religious crisis.

The group decried the alleged constant breach of the fundamental rights of Muslims across the country with impunity under the pretence of National security.

The association said: "It has become a routine exercise for security agencies to arrest, detained and harangued, intimidate and torture Muslims, especially those who wear long beards in the name of curbing the Boko haram menace" and called on the security agencies not to be partisan when discharging their duties.

"They also called on security agents to respect the fundamental right of Nigerians and to desist from indiscriminate arrest and torture based on facial outlook and or dressing in the name of stemming the tide of ethno-religious crises in Nigeria."

The body also called on the Federal Government and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to license non-interest banking for interested Nigerians, irrespective of their religious persuasions and not to be discouraged by critics of the ideal.

They also accused state government in the country especially those in the north of paying lip service to the formalisation of the Almajiri educational system thereby increasing the level of illiteracy in Nigeria, particularly in the north.

They also accused states in the southern parts of the country of failing to recognize the rights of Muslims to have their disputes adjudicated on the principles of sharia as enshrined in the constitution of the country and congratulate the National Assembly for criminalizing same-sex marriage.

They asked the government not to add to the hardship already existing in the country by removing fuel subsidy, asking the government to forget about the idea in the interest of the ordinary Nigerians.

SOURCE:THISDAY NEWSPAPER

Do Muslims in southern Nigeria think that it is important to have Sharia courts that can hear their cases? If you are a southern Muslim please respond,

I think Christians in Northern Nigeria should be allowed to practice their religion in CHURCHES up North without Threat or Discrimination either

SOMEBODY SHOULD BE BOLD ENOUGH TO STOP ALL THIS FOOLISHNESS.
IT'S COMMON SENSE THAT RELIGION AND STATE SHOULD BE SEPERATE ESPECIALLY IN A SECULAR SOCIETY AS NIGERIA. I JUST WONDER WHAT KIND OF BRAINS ARE IN SOME OF OUR LEADERS FOR PERMITTING THIS RUBBISH TO STAND IN THE NORTHERN STATES.

IN SANE SOCIETIES, PEOPLE COME TOGETHER TO DRAFT THEIR OWN LAWS ACCORDING TO THEIR CONSCIENCE AND NOT RELIGION SO AS TO PROVIDE A SYSTEM THAT CUTS ACROSS

AND IT'S A SHAME ON THOSE LAWYERS!!!!! ALL THOSE YEARS IN SCHOOL AND THEIR REASONING IS STILL AT THIS LEVEL?

Fct north, NDA north, everything north and now they want sharia in south. I‘ve said it again and again, a fulani man naturally has the conquest trait of usman dan fodio, and they would not rest until they conquer the whole of Nigeria. This their primitive born to rule mentality is really becoming annonying. A church is different from a sharia court. These are two different things.

@ OP, Abeg change the title to: Muslim Lawyers Want Sharia In[b] SW[/b] Nigeria

Sharia court has been part of SW court system for ages,I don't know what you guys are really on about.

The speaker isn't ignorant he's just a mischief maker cos he knows sharia courts are within the legal frame work in the Sw and have been for decades.
This is no news.

Hence you wonder why they feel the need to start another move on the same subject.

Are we not all witnesses to how "good" and "clean" extreme Sharia has made the north - that we must start introducing it somewhere where there seems to be religious harmony

I wonder why they are not rising from their meeting to promise those living in fear all over the northern states that they will confront and put down Boko Haram for peace and progress of the nation.

Trouble-makers, that is what they are. As I have said before rear-soldiers like Boko Haram are heralded by forward-soldiers like this group to prepare the way. They will argue the constitution and their rights, raise the tension and then the rest would become "BOOM BOOM".

The SSS & police need to follow each one of these people as they go about carrying out potential actions that down the line create untold chaos.

Ufeolorun:

Sharia court has been part of SW court system for ages,I don't know what you guys are really on about.
The speaker isn't ignorant he's just a mischief maker cos he knows sharia courts are within the legal frame work in the Sw and have been for decades.
This is no news.

silverstud:

A group, Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria (MULAN) rose from their 5th annual general conference in Kaduna State, declaring that they will ensure that the introduction of Sharia legal system in the southern states as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.

The group said this against the backdrop that it concerns the determination of Islamic personal laws as it relates to marriage, divorce and inheritance.

The lawyers also called for an end to the trial of the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, demanding that the judicial process be accelerated to end his long travail and persecution.

In a communiuque at the end of the conference in Kaduna, MULAN said it would collaborate with the National Assembly to abrogate all discriminatory provisions in the constitution of Nigeria that tends to strengthen the settler/indigene dichotomy that has precipitated many crises in various parts of the country.

The communiqué signed by the National President of the body, Alhaji Tajudeen Oladoja, the body also urged the Federal Government not to hesitate to invoke its power under the constitution by declaring a state of emergency in any state of the federation plagued by ethno-religious crisis.

The group decried the alleged constant breach of the fundamental rights of Muslims across the country with impunity under the pretence of National security.

The association said: "It has become a routine exercise for security agencies to arrest, detained and harangued, intimidate and torture Muslims, especially those who wear long beards in the name of curbing the Boko haram menace" and called on the security agencies not to be partisan when discharging their duties.

"They also called on security agents to respect the fundamental right of Nigerians and to desist from indiscriminate arrest and torture based on facial outlook and or dressing in the name of stemming the tide of ethno-religious crises in Nigeria."

The body also called on the Federal Government and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to license non-interest banking for interested Nigerians, irrespective of their religious persuasions and not to be discouraged by critics of the ideal.

They also accused state government in the country especially those in the north of paying lip service to the formalisation of the Almajiri educational system thereby increasing the level of illiteracy in Nigeria, particularly in the north.

They also accused states in the southern parts of the country of failing to recognize the rights of Muslims to have their disputes adjudicated on the principles of sharia as enshrined in the constitution of the country and congratulate the National Assembly for criminalizing same-sex marriage.

They asked the government not to add to the hardship already existing in the country by removing fuel subsidy, asking the government to forget about the idea in the interest of the ordinary Nigerians.

SOURCE:THISDAY NEWSPAPER

These guys really have some nerve sha. Till I can safely sit down with a beer in sokoto without fear of being lynched they can go screw themselves

Nothing wrong with wishing that dreams come true.
I also wish that Nigeria should be re-colonized.
May our dreams come true. Amen.

Their father yansh