The National Youth
Service Corps (NYSC) has denied the allegations that scheme had placed a ban on
the use of hijab by female Muslim corps members, especially during orientation
camps.
Director-General
of the NYSC, Brigadier-General, Johnson Olawumi, disclosed this at the
swearing-in ceremony of the stream II Batch B, 2015 corps members at the Kubwa
orientation camp in Abuja.
He
stated that NYSC only appealed to corps members not to wear long hijabs due to
security implication
The
alleged ban had been contested by the various muslim groups and scholars who
claimed the ban was against their rights as Nigerians.
He
said “There was just a misrepresentation, we (NYSC) can’t for whatever reason
ban the use of hijab. I think the misrepresentation has to do with the
standard. We didn’t ban the wearing of hijabs by corps members, only appealed
to them not to wear the long hijab where you can only see their eyes and to use
the shorter one that will at least help us for the purpose of identification,
so that other people will not take advantage of it.
- Guardian News
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