Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta has banned niqab on its campus and the only thing we have seen is lamentation on social media.
What has MSSN become? Toothless bulldog. No demonstration by other campuses joining them? No protest letter to the Minister of Education and Executive Secretary of NUC. No press conference by the B-Zone executive and the National. I cry for our beloved MSSN. Let them go into the archives and find out the exploits of their progenitors. How they were dynamic in fighting for their rights. How did university authorities succumbed to allow sisters wear hijab in those days.?
You didn’t see on record nationwide demonstration by MSSN even to the National Assembly at Tafawa Balewa Square when some enemies of Islam were plotting to remove Sharia from the proposed 1979 constitution and the constitution drafting Committee had to reverse their illogical and irresponsible move? Ishaq Yinka Sanni of blessed memory (then of Ibadan Polytechnic) led our team to the National Assembly. Nobody gets his right anywhere in the world on a platter of gold or through lamentation. Ask the brothers who planned the Hijab demonstration in Oyo State in 2004 how they were harrassed and locked up. It metamorphosed into a general struggle that culminated to the birth of ‘CONCERNED MUSLIMS’. The struggle lasted ten years until Governor Ajimobi on the basis of the constitutional Human Rights provision of freedom of religion granted the request in February 2014.
MSSN must stop playing the ostrich and be proactive in fighting for the rights of her members. The hijab issue in FUNAAB is a test case .
God bless MSSN
