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Sultan Worries Over High Spate Of Hatred Towards Islam, Muslims In South West Over Sharia Panels

...tells governors, traditional rulers, politicians to live and let Muslims live

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January 29, 2025
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Sultan Worries Over High Spate Of Hatred Towards Islam, Muslims In South West Over Sharia Panels
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The Sultan of Sokoto who is also the President-General, The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA),Alh. Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has expressed worry over the high spate of intolerance and disregard for the rights of Muslims in the South West and other parts of Southern Nigeria.

The Sultan stated his position in a statement issued on Wednesday by Imam Haroun Muhammad Eze, Deputy National Legal Adviser of the NSCIA.

In the statement, the Sultan cited recent comments credited to some state governors in the South West on effort of Muslim communities to establish Sharia arbitration panels was met by stiff opposition, including harsh comments from state governors, politicians and traditional rulers.

The statement said the comments and actions of the political and traditional leaders clearly depicted hatred for Islam and Muslims in the South West.

The statement said : “the President of NSCIA and
Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alh. Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni, is particularly disturbed about the high spate of intolerance and disregard for the rights of Muslims, especially in the southern part of the country.

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“The most recent of this is the development emanating from Ekiti State where the efforts of the Muslim community to set up an Independent Shariah (Arbitration) Panel was met with unwarranted resistance and objections from both political and traditional quarters.

“This is coming barely few weeks after the announcement on the inauguration of a Shariah panel in Oyo State generated unnecessary anxiety thereby leading to its indefinite postponement.

“The Independent Arbitration Panel, which is a voluntary platform designed solely for the resolution of civil and marital disputes among consenting Muslims, was to fill the inexplicable vacuum created by the failure of the political elite in South-Western Nigeria to establish Shariah Courts, as allowed by the Nigerian Constitution, in South-Western states, despite the huge population of Muslims in the region.

“This and other cases, such as the denial of the rights of female students to wear the Hijab despite a Supreme Court judgement, are nothing but calculated attempts to prevent Muslims in the region from practicing their faith.
Meanwhile, Arbitration and the Shariah Court of Appeal, just like the Customary Court of Appeal (which all of them have) are provided for in the 1999 Constitution (as amended) of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (see section 275), confirming the legality of both initiatives.

“The NSCIA strongly supports the establishment of Independent Shariah Arbitration Panel in Ekiti and Oyo States for the purpose so intended, especially where the Muslims in the states have been denied their constitutional right to a Shariah Court of Appeal in all the states of the South-Western Nigeria.

“The Council cannot find any legal justification for the unnecessary alarm and unwarranted resistance.

“All the states in the North have Shariah Courts and some, in addition, have Customary Courts.

“The Council calls on the Governors and Traditional Authorities in the southern part of the country, particularly the South-West, to ensure that the constitutional rights of Muslims in their respective domains are preserved and protected.

“While others are allowed to live, Muslims should also be let live.”

Recalls that the present controversy over the establishment of sharia arbitration panels started when Governor Seyi Makinde stopped the proposed inauguration of a sharia arbitration panel by the Muslim community in Oyo town, Oyo State .

The Oyo Muslim Community committed a typographical error in their invitation to the event when they wrote Sharia Court instead of Sharia Panel.

Makinde capitalized on the typographical error to stop the event and all efforts to explain and educate him on the fundamental of Sharia law to the practice of Islam failed.

The controversy later spread to other parts of the South West, particularly Ekiti and Ogun States where the state governments and a leading traditional ruler, Ewi of Ado Ekiti had issued statements to express stiff opposition to the establishment of Sharia Arbitration Panels.
(vitalnewsngr.com)

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