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

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.

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

Its in Nigeria you see people that carry things on their heads. Tomorrow you will hear they have incarcerated small girls as sexx slaves in their. But its non of my business

for what we know,she might have been using the hijab as a cover for cheating in exams..if I may ask why only her,when there are other girls on hijab in the exam hall



I refuse to believe this story until I hear the supervisor's side of the story

very wicked lecturer.
you have taken her expo away.

MURIC again The supervisor might have been wrong by forcefully asking her to take off the hijab. She could have asked her to take off her hijab in private if she really wanted to search her. Overtime, that has been the practice with searching females during exams.

Muric, on the other hand should go and sleep. It is only a piece on cloth and nothing special. While I condemn the act, MURIC has shown that it is clearly an arm of a devilish tool. Where were they when Christians were killed in the North over blasphemy? Where were they when Islamic extremists were on rampage, in the name of Muhammed Screaming blue murder over a small issue as this, and judging by that press release is only an indication that Muslims are very much conscious that they want an Islamic utopia within Nigeria.

That is a barbaric act, especially coming from a supposed educated individual.

She has no right to remove any piece of clothing on a candidate he supervises, she should have asked her to remove it or forget about writing the exam, that way, the end result would have been her choice and not hers.(English tho)

Buy why

Why did the chicken cross the road

Ayah.. ....

Hmmm

I don't wish to type anything but just wanna ask


She's still alive right

Is she an idiot to have dressed masquerade style into exam hall?
That examiner must be mad to have violated that girls dignity
What the fvck am i even saying?
Make una no vex ... i never chop
Am the fvck outta here mehn!

So is the hijab more important than her examination; if she seems to prefer her hijab; people can use that as a means to hide materials; the supervisor on the other hand is very wrong especially if she is a christian; she is supposed to show respect for the muslim religion; Jesus did not teach us to be at war with non-christians but at peace with them. Provided the girl was not cheating; she is not supposed to be cruel to the girl.

When

na inside hijab she keep her expo

SMH

What the invigilator did was completely wrong! There are no justifications for her actions at all.
She had to pull off her scarf? Really?
I am still in shock, even if there were rules against the hijab or she suspected malpractice, she had absolutely no rights to pull it off in the middle of an exam. From what I read, the girl was allowed to write the exam without the scarf so it was clearly not an issue of malpractice.

All these Muslims sef
Na by force to wear hijab?
We no go hear word again

for ur notice... politics and Religion crisis will end the world. that is 3th world war wwwiii. classified

. WHICH WAEC BE THAT AGAIN?

is an examination Hall now a mosque? but the supervisor harsh shaa...

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.

This is a hate attack and a blatant act of Islamophobia. We see it as part of a grand design to slowpoke 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.

When some muslim fanatics burnt christian students to death just last month in a school, una no speak all this grammar...Just ordinary yanking off hijab, una dey cry foul? Shebi una don see as e dey pain ba?

See as this monkey wey dey Sambisa Forest dey tell MURIC Ntoooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

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If she looks suspicious nothing bad in removing it. Please the reporter of this article want creat trouble.

Yes the Muslims, they are at it again.

Hoping they are not going to declare a jihad

That one too na serious offence? I taya oh

Religion.!!!!!!!!!


The origin of human problem

HateU2:
I don't wish to type anything but just wanna ask


She's still alive right

nop she just pass out immediately aftr d paper