WAEC Provoking Muslim Candidates To ‘Tear’ Exam Materials – MURIC

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has slammed the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) for allegedly fixing chemistry papers in the 2018 May/June exams during Friday Jummat prayer time.

Speaking in a statement by its President, Ishaq Akintola, MURIC accused WAEC of trying to provoke Muslim candidates into tearing materials meant for the examinations.

Akintola said unless the examination body reverses its recently released timetable, Muslim entrants may be forced to disrupt the entire examinations process.

The professor said, “When there is no justice, there can never be peace and everyone is clamouring for peace.

“Until something starts happening, until the Muslims start disrupting WAEC examination until Muslims start tearing WAEC examination materials, that is when the government will start paying attention.

“WAEC is playing games and they want the Muslims to make noise every year, the council is deliberately provoking Muslims and it has continued to show itself as a consistent anti-Muslim institution.

“Section 38 subsection 1 and 2 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s constitution stipulates that there must be freedom of worship and WAEC fixing an examination for 2 pm simply means that WAEC does not want Muslims to worship, therefore WAEC is an oppressor and we are ready for them.

“The Muslims in every vicinity of the exam can mobilise on the day of the examination and go to the schools which the exams will be written, we are sending this warning to WAEC not to dare it,” he said.