Group calls For seperate camps for male and female corp members

The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) has called on the management of the National Youth Service Corps to seperate males from females in the National Youth Service Scheme physical exercise at orientation camps because it violates Islamic tenets and offends the Muslims sensibility and to also provide alternative camps for female Muslim corps members.

 Dr. Khalid Abubakar, the JNI Secretary General said this at the end of a peace and unity conference for Muslim scholars which took place in Kaduna State.

 Abubakar beseeched the NYSC to respect the decency and chastity of female corps members during physical exercises and other activities at the orientation camps.

 JNI also noted that the refusal of the federal government to institute a judicial process of inquiry or prosecute those arrested or accused of perpetrating violence in the country is an indication of a leadership that is not sensitive to the plight of the people, adding that the attacks and displacement of Muslims in Borno, Taraba and Plateau states have continued unabated as a result of government’s inaction.

 The statement accused the federal government and the affected state governments of showing indifference and nonchalant attitude towards settling and rehabilitating displaced Muslim communities in Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi State and Zonkwa, Kaduna state.

 Furthermore, the statement accused the government and the media of playing double standards in ascribing terrorism to Islam and also blamed the media for exonerating other religions from such criminality.

 JNI added also that Muslims are being marginalised in almost all strategic government establishments, organisations and institutions in the country.