Justice Bamgbose Alabi of the Abeokuta High Court in Ogun State has ruled that “the use of hijab is considered a fundamental human right only for adults”. This formed the basis of his judgement on 4th June, 2020 in a case filed by Aishat Abdul-Aleem, an 11-year old Muslim girl, who was sent out of school at the Gateway Secondary School, Abeokuta in December 2018.
In its reaction to the judgement, an Islamic human rights outfit, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has described the judgement as unacceptable.
MURIC’s reaction was contained in a press statement issued by the Director of the organization on 8th June 2020.
MURIC said, “We reject this judgement in its totality. What manner of judicial declaration is this? Is the judge telling us that minors have no religion, no fundamental human rights, not even a dot in social statistics? Is he telling us that minors do not exist? Why are minors counted during census? Why do we register them at birth? Is the killing of a minor judiciable or not? This judgment suffers from desertification of a human face. It has no soul. It is judicial namby-pamby.
“The ruling stands in contra-distinction to Section 38 (2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which states inter alia, ‘No person attending any place of education shall be required …
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