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.
