1st
November, 2021
PRESS RELEASE :
PUPIL FLOGGING : MURIC COMMENDS COMMITTEE, URGES
QUICK IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS
The 11-man committee set up by the Kwara State Government to
investigate the corporal punishment meted to some Arabic students in Ganmo,
Irepodun local government area of the state has recommended the regulation of
Arabic and Islamic schools in the state. The committee also advised the government
to immediately reconstitute the Arabic Education Board in the state.
Reacting to the
development, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has commended the committee for
doing a clinical job. The human rights group also urged the state government to
waste no time in implementing the recommendations.
This was
disclosed on Monday, 1st November, 2021 by the director and founder
of MURIC, Professor Ishaq Akintola.
The statement
reads:
“The Kwara State Government has received the report of the 11-man
committee set up to investigate the corporal punishment meted to some Arabic
students in Ganmo, Irepodun local government area of the state on 9th
October, 2021. The Justice Haroon-led committee recommended the regulation of
Arabic and Islamic schools in the state and the reconstitution of the Arabic
Education Board.
“MURIC commends the
committee for treating the matter with military dispatch and for addressing the
core issues involved. Inaugurated on the 15th day of October, 2021, the
committee commenced sitting immediately up till the 24th day of October, 2021
and submitted its report the next day. This is record time.
“We implore the state government to speedily and steadily implement
the committee’s recommendations. The state government should also note that the
success of its implementation depends on its sincerity and commitment to the
cause of Arabic education.
“It is equally important to
point out the immense benefits which the state government stands to reap from
paying adequate attention to Arabic and Islamic education. In the kitty are a
steady fall in crime rate, reduction of corrupt practices in both public and
private sectors and stability in family affairs as a result of the infusion of
moral guidelines in young Muslims in the Arabic schools.
“Arabic and Islamic studies as a twin discipline is the bedrock of
morality in any society and any government that undermines any of the two does
so at the risk of moral degeneration, unbridled chaos and criminality ad
infinitum.
“We invite the Kwara State Government to ponder over the cassu
belli for the preponderance of high moral value in scholars of Islam and
other Muslims who passed through Arabic schools.
“We glow with pride that President
Muhammadu Buhari who sits on Nigeria’s humongous wealth but who refuses to
steal one kobo is a product of the Arabic school and he is Qur’an-literate. The
secret behind the uncommon, unequalled and jet-age performance of the Minister
of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Pantami, can be traced
to the fact that he is a Shaykh and a cerebral Islamic scholar.
“There is also no gainsaying the fact that Professor Ishaq Oloyede,
a professor of Islamic studies who is making waves at the Joint Admissions
Matriculation Board (JAMB), has proved beyond reasonable doubt the stuff
Islamic scholars are made of as ambassadors of integrity, credibility, probity
and accountability. Indeed, in those three Muslim public officials alone the
Kwara State Government stands a good chance of setting up stainless models for
young Muslims in Kwara State.”
Professor Ishaq
Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights
Concern (MURIC)
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