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| DSS Director General, Daura |
A recent High Court judgment rules that Muslim female students in the state were free to wear hijab in public schools.
However, this has not gone down well with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the state, which consequently threatened to ask female Christian students to wear their choir robes to school.
However, New Telegraph learnt that the DSS aware that the judgement has generated tension between the religious sects, is said to have appealed to them to give peace a chance over the matter.
Sources close to the security outfit, told us that CAN leaders and their Muslim counterparts were invited for dialogue last week Wednesday to find a way on how to they could tolerate each other and live happily in the state.
While confirming the story to newsmen on Sunday night, state CAN Chairman, Rev. Elisha Ogundiya said: “I was invited by the DSS director and I told him that we are peace loving people.
“We are not at war with anybody but we will direct our children to start wearing choir robes and any church garment they like to schools if the state government decides to implement the judgment that Muslim children are free to wear hijab to schools founded by Christian missionaries.
“If wearing hijab is their right, then wearing of choir robes to schools is the right of our children as well. It is very simple. We are not fighting with anybody on this.”
However, the Vice President of Osun State Muslim Community, Alhaji Mustapha Olawuyi at a press conference in Osogbo on Friday, had said there is no going back on hijab wearing in the state since it was the court pronouncement.
Olawuyi described wearing of Hijab by Muslims as their fundamental right which could not be hindered by anybody or group.https://newtelegraphonline.com/hijab-osun-dss-invites-canmuslim-officials/
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