MUSLIM LEADER DEMANDS SEGREGATED CAMPS FOR MALES AND FEMALES

The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) has called on the management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to stop mixing males and females in the National Youth Service Scheme physical exercise at orientation camps as it disrespects Islamic tenets and further disregards the sensibilities of Muslims. This was contained in a communique signed by JNI Secretary General, Dr. Khalid Abubakar at the end of a peace and unity conference for Muslim scholars in Kaduna. He called on the NYSC to respect the decency and chastity of female corp members during physical exercises and other activities at the orientation camps, and provide alternative camps for female Muslim corp members. JNI also noted that the refusal of the federal government to institute a judicial process of inquiry or prosecute those arrested or accused of perpetrating violence in the country is an indication of a leadership that is not sensitive to the plights of the people, adding that the attacks and displacement of Muslims in Borno, Taraba and Plateau states have continued unabated as a result of government’s inaction. The statement further accused the federal government and the affected state governments of showing indifference and non-challant attitude towards settling and rehabilitating displaced Muslim communities in Tafawa Balewa in Bauchi state and Zonkwa in Kaduna state. The statement further accused the government and the media of playing double standards in ascribing terrorism to Islam. It also blamed the media for exonerating other religions from such criminality, adding that Muslims are being marginalized in almost all strategic government establishments, organizations and institutions in the country .

This religious nonsense is leading Nigeria to dangerous abyss yet we still have religious leaders like Dr. Khalid Abubakar are still expending energy on ridiculous issues like segregating males and females. How does that change the current poverty and corruption that pervades in the entire country?All Nigerians have been wronged. Religion and tribalism/ethnicity has been used as tools, for a long time, to oppress and deceive gullible masses. Issues facing everyone of us is the same - unemployment, broken infrastructure  uncontained inflation, corruption etc etc. Yet, we are prepared to die only on the grounds of tribalism and religion. The axis of evil in Nigeria comprises Tribalistic bigots,unrepentant corrupt elites and religious extremists who repudiate Nigeria’s constitution and seek to impose their arcane ideology on the 160 million people in the country. The docile silent majority in Nigeria are equally culpable as they only scream on the internet and afterwards it is business as usual. Nigerians should learn from Egyptians that if you do not run this axis of evil from your country,there will never be progress.