National Council of Muslim Youth Organizations, NACOMYO has carpeted a Nigerian lawyer, Ebun Adegboruwa over his vituperation following the approval of Hijab for female police officers .
This is contained in a statement by the National President of the Council, Mallam Sani Suleiman- Maigoro and National Secretary, Alhaji Mas’ud Akintola .
The Council decried the outpour of Adegboruwa
who in his highly publicized, clout-chasing, social media post, particularly sought to undermine the rights of Muslim female police officers to dress decently while performing their duties ostensibly because they are Muslims.
NACOMYO is forced to ask, what harm does a Muslim lady’s choice to wear the hijab do to any of these set of non-Muslims?
The Council noted that ordinarily, it would have ignored the tantrums of this particular meddlesome lawyer but chose to befit him with a response because of his numerous deliberate acts of misrepresentation and penchant for islamophobic rhetorics.
In the said post, Mr Adegboruwa came across as a man who tries too hard in his attention-seeking voyage and as a meddlesome interloper who chose to misrepresent extant and unambiguous sections of the 1999 constitution of the FRN (as amended).
The Council noted his efforts shows he’s competing hard with his friend in cassock seekig to establish himself as Nigeria’s foremost islamophobe
NACOMYO noted that Mr. Adegboruwa’s post on the police approval of new and improved dress code for female police officers showed a man attempting to be clever by half as the announced regulations goes beyond the hijab but he didn’t see or chose not to see the other aspects of the regulation which permitted the wearing of stud earrings, headscarves, peak caps, and so on, which, for obvious reasons, ensures the accommodation of Nigerian female police officers of diverse backgrounds.
The Council further noted that Adegboruwa struggled to draw parallels with the Catholics and Traditionalists whose rights to dress as appropriate is also guaranteed by the new and improved dress code.
“He also apparently does not know that nothing in the IGP’s press statement mandates a particular dress sense on even the Muslim female police officers.
He even attempted to exhibit his usual holier-than-the-pope messianic complex by claiming to know more than the police about what is germane to them thereby displaying his ignorance of the policies already in the public domain, of improved welfare packages and living conditions for police officers.”
“It’s within Mr Adegboruwa right to crave attention, it’s also okay if he believes meddlesomeness is the only way to revive his failing career, but we hope he knows that he has no right to infringe on the rights of women, albeit Muslim women to dress as they deem fit”.
We’d also like to advise that he should refrain forthwith from distracting and undermining the onerous responsibilities of our security agencies by his fault finding, meddlesomeness, divisive activities and penchant for islamophobic rhetorics.
“He should first seek to know instead of exhibiting such crass ignorance when he claimed that what the IGP did in approving the new and improved dress code is ‘unconstitutional’. Rather, Council views this as in tandem with global best practice where female Muslim police officers are allowed to use their hijab while on uniform in countries like the US, UK, Australia and Canada, to mention but a few .
NACOMYO commended the authorities of the Nigerian Police for introducing the new and improved dress code for female police officers.
The Council noted that the introduction of the new and improved dress code is in line with global best practices especially as it relates to economically developed first world countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.
It also applauded the move by the Police authorities which is aimed among others, to accommodate the peculiarities and diverse ethni-religious and cultural background of Nigeria’s female police officers “who are drawn from all the 774 local government areas and 36 states of the federation.”
NACOMYO emphasized that the use of hijab in any organisation should not cause any problem at all bearing in mind that the Nigerian constitution allows freedom of religion which hijab symbolizes.
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