The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has complained that its office has been inundated with reports from Muslim students, their teachers and parents that the software of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) being used for capturing during registration always malfunctions with hijab.

Director of the group, Professor Ishaq Akintola, in a statement made available to NewsWireNGR noted that the application was deliberately designed to automatically reject hijab. As a result, MURIC has called on WAEC to review the software by making it hijab-compliant.

According to the statement, “Reports from state branches of MURIC concerning capturing for 2020 WAEC registration has been alarming and disappointing. In faraway Minna, Niger State, at the Hasha International School, students had issues with capturing in hijab. The same reports came in from several secondary schools in Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Lagos, etc and it resulted in the officials asking Muslim students to remove their hijab for capturing since, according to them, the hijab was not being captured by WAEC’s software.

According to the statement issued Monday, 17th February, 2020 reads in parts,- “Here lies the riddle. Several questions come to our minds and it appears only WAEC can answer them. So, over to WAEC. Muslims pay the same amount for WAEC as all others. Why are our daughters being victimized? Why are they being set aside for embarrassment? Why must their religion become a source of discomfort for them? Why are the Muslim parents being made to go through psychological trauma?

“And now to fundamental issues that are directly connected to WAEC’s software in the questions. Who designed the software? Why is the software not capturing the hijab used by Muslim female students? Why would it be designed specifically not to capture Muslim females wearing hijab? Are we saying Muslim children cannot be Muslims anymore until they take non-Muslim identities? Why didn’t the designers of WAEC’s software put the hijab into consideration ab initio? Was there any test-running before the design was approved? If there was a test-running, who supervised the test-running and where is the report

RagaMufeen:
If CAN does half of what MURIC does, they'd have been proscribed long time ago.

tartar9:

As if CAN hasn't said worse
At least there's always a truth to MURIC claims
I have witnessed this numerous times recently,it hasn't been happening before.

RagaMufeen:


Said worse like what? Give an example.

tartar9:

Really
Are you on Earth at all
CAN that haved purveyed similar,worse,absurd but all false claims innumerable times.
I won't bother to give you an example
Ignore I mentioned you
Sorry

Tallesty1:
A subtle way to chicken out.


Just say you don't have.

tartar9:
Oga,there's nothing to prove It's like asking me to prove that nnamdi kanu never speaks about biafraûd Stop acting ignorant

Sirjamo:
People whose religion permits indecent exposure of their women's body are behind all these!!

edoairways:

No religion permits indecent exposure. That some persons do doesn't it is allowed or was ever allowed. The difference between you claimed religion and the accused religion is freedom

LuciusX:
Actually, some religions do permit a considerable amount of bodily exposure. Like theistic Satanism and it's splinter cells.

edoairways:

Really! I never knew

Waterypussy2:
monkey give him examples and stop deviating.