Following concerns over recent bombings carried out by suspected female Boko Haram members, the Ja’amatu Nasril Islam (JNI), Wednesday said it will reject any move to ban the use of hijab by Muslim women in Nigeria.
The Secretary-General of JNI, Dr. Khalid Abubakar Aliyu, said this at the official commissioning of the Secretariat of Kaduna State Chapter of Council for Imams and Ulamas in Kaduna.
Aliyu insisted that the fact that some women using hijab had been fingered to be behind bombings in the past few weeks, did not make others potential bombers.
He added that it was the duty of security agencies to find out if those female bombers were actually Muslims.
“We as Muslims are concerned with the security challenges in the country. Our brothers and sisters are being massacred on daily basis in the North-East and some other parts of the country.
“Today, Gwoza and Damboa are no more in existence as they have been overrun by insurgents who are still advancing to take other towns. This is what should be government’s priority and they should not think of banning hijab”, he said.
Also speaking, Chairman Council of Imams and Ulama, Kaduna State, Sheikh Abubakar Usman Baban, called on the Federal Government to rise to its responsibility of providing adequate security to lives and property of Nigerians.
He stated that “no reasonable government will in any way accept the level of killings and anarchy among its citizens”.
The Islamic scholar further called on Nigerians to work towards sustained peace and unity of the country.
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