BREAKING: Hijab-wearing female students bar from UI school [PHOTOS]
the use of Hijab by female Muslim students took another dimension
Thursday morning when the school management barred some Hijab-wearing
students of the school from entering the premises of the school.
We recalls that academic activities were paralysed in the school on
Monday when the school shut the classes against the students of the
school because some of the students wore Hijab.
The school management, it was gathered shut the gate of the school
against the female Muslim students who wore the Hijab to the school
Thursday morning.
Chairman, University of Ibadan International School Muslim Parents'
Forum, Alhaji Abdulrahman Balogun confirmed this development to us in
a statement Thursday morning.
Balogun said, "Breaking: All Hijab wearing students locked out at the
gate of ISI".
It was also gathered that the school also locked no fewer than eight
Hijab-wearing students in one of its libraries when they refused to
remove their Hijabs on Wednesday.
Balogun earlier in a statement sent to us Wednesday evening maintained
that the eight students were locked in the school library when they
refused to remove their Hijab on Wednesday.
He also informed journalists that the school management, after locking
the students, thereafter conducted two tests for their colleagues in
their absence.
Balogun said, "ISI 8. Our Hijab heroines that were sent out of class
today. Aliyah Adebayo, Aliyah Dokpesi, Akifah Dokpesi, Fadeelah
Akinbile, Iman Akinosho, Ikhlas Badiru, Mardiyyah Yekinni and
Hamdallah Olosunde. On Hijab, we stand for ISI 8".
He said that the Muslim parents will continue to resist all attempts
to intimidate and harass their children in the school.
He added, "We will resist all attempts to intimidate and harass our
girls. They went to their classes and coerced them, hence some of them
removed their hijabs while those who refused were sent out of their
classes and locked up in the library till the close of school and made
sure there was two test in the class.
He, however, warned that the parents will hold the school Principal,
Mrs. Phebean Olowe responsible should anything happens to the
students.
He said, "The parent will hold the principal, Mrs Phebean Olowe
responsible should anything untoward happens to our girls. This is the
last warning not to coerce our daughters into submission just as she
did to several other girls who reported her to us.
We shall use all legal means to ensure that the fundamental and
God-given rights of your children are not trampled upon by the
Principal".
However, all efforts by us to get reactions of the school Principal,
Mrs. Phebean Olowe on why the students were locked up in the library
on Wednesday and why they were not allowed to enter the school
premises on Thursday proved abortive as several calls put through to
her mobile phone number Thursday morning were not taken.
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