The Council of Muslim Organisations CMO, in Kwara state, has demanded the immediate call to the bar of Firdaus Amasa, who was denied induction by the Nigerian Law School.
The umbrella body of all Muslim organizations in the state also commended Amasa’s courage to defend the sanctity of Hijab in the face of intimidation. Describing her as a heroine of Hijab and symbol of sacrifice, the group added that the decision by Nigerian Law School to deny the law graduate from being inducted because she was wearing Hijab was illegal.
Amasa, a law graduate of the University of Ilorin, an indigene of Kwara State was not called to bar for her firmness on wearing a religious veil popularly called Hijab, during induction on December 13, 2017, in Abuja.
CMO Coordinator and former Grand Khadi of Kwara State, Justice Idris Haroon, said the lady was denied induction on account of her resoluteness to exercise her religious rights as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution. The apex Muslim organization said ‘’the provision to wear Hijab must be inserted in the Code of Conduct book of the Nigerian Law School, the Nigerian Defence Academy, all para-military formations and other national agencies’’.
