MURIC made the submission in a press release by its Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, on Thursday.
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The new committee, according to MURIC, will replace the Hasan Kukah National Peace Committee, which it said has gone moribund after losing credibility.
MURIC appealed for the postponement in a statement on Tuesday.
The bill, titled: “Religious Discrimination (Prohibition, Prevention) Bill 2021,” scaled second reading in the House on Tuesday.
Parents of the students engaged the school authorities in a hot argument, which resulted into stone-throwing between Christians and Muslims.
The position of MURIC was made known by its Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, in a statement on Monday
The group urged Nigerian Muslims and the rest of the citizens to take the vaccine without any fear in their own interest.
Among other steps, the group suggested that FG should rehabilitate the houses of Sunday Igboho and that of the Seriki Fulani that were attacked, compensate farmers both in the North and South, pacify cow owners and assist cow owners to buy land for ranches.
The Islamic human rights body wants to know why no single Yoruba Muslim has ever occupied Aso Rock from independence to date.
This was contained in a statement by the Director of the Muslim rights advocacy group, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, on Tuesday
The Director of the Islamic rights organisation, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, said this in a statement in the early hours of Wednesday.
MURIC’s suggestions came in the wake of the discovery that the owner of the cows that strayed into Prof. Wole Soyinka’s compound is a Southerner and a Yoruba man
MURIC suggested that the compensation, which may be in instalments, should be paid to farmers whose farms were destroyed in all states of the federation.
The advice came from the Nigerian Islamic human rights organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern.
The group called for the extension of the same direct dialogue to Ondo State.
MURIC spoke on the heels of the revelation by the Christian Association of Nigeria that NPC was a personal initiative of Kukah.
MURIC stated this in a statement by its Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, on Tuesday, reminding Muslims that they have the right to boycott any committee or event in which Kukah is involved.
These allegations were contained in a press statement by the Director of the organisation, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, on Thursday
The Federal Government flagged off the SPW on January 6, 2021
The Islamic human rights group linked such grievances with deradicalisation and traced religious violence to the denial of Islamic fundamental human rights.