An Islamic human rights affiliation, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has reminded the West African Assessment Committee, WAEC to take perception of the Muslim love time frame on Fridays when it at last readies its WASSCE plan.
WAEC yesterday exposed the report that it had discharged the May/June 2020 West African Senior Auxiliary School Declaration Assessment (WASSCE) schedule.
It said the postponement in discharging the plan was because of the seething COVID-19 pandemic.
MURIC's position was contained in a press explanation marked by its Chief, Educator Ishaq Akintola and made accessible to Giftalworld on Tuesday.
The association stated, "We invite WAEC's explanation with joy. We acknowledge what the provincial assessment body is experiencing as far as consistent strategic realignment occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We wish to help WAEC specialists to remember the need to take discernment of the Friday Jumu'ah period for its Muslim applicants while setting up its plan for WASSCE 2020 assessment.
"The appalling episodes of the past when Muslim competitors needed to compose papers as opposed to watching the Jumu'ah supplication will never again be acknowledged. It will be opposed with each real methods accessible.
"Be that as it may, to be admonished is to be front equipped. This is the reason we have chosen to help WAEC to remember the need to abstain from infringing on Allah-given principal human privileges of Muslim applicants in future assessments.
"WAEC ought to think about us as accomplices in progress. We are not foes and we can generally cooperate under the standard of shared regard. Harmony is consistently conceivable once the rule of equivalent rights, equity and fairplay are kept up. Tragically, be that as it may, everyone is discussing harmony however no one is discussing equity.
"WAEC has no privilege under the sun to plan any assessment during the Muslim Jumu'ah petition similarly as it won't think about booking any assessment on a Sunday especially during the Christian love. Along these lines, what is useful for the goose is likewise useful for the gander.
"Psychological oppression and every other type of strict savagery will vanish from Nigeria once there is equivalent right and equity. Be that as it may, the consistent abuse of Muslims which add up to incitement has been behind most strict emergency which Nigeria has encountered.
"We accept that strict viciousness is negligible smoke. However there is no smoke without fire. The fire which touches off strict savagery is incitement and convincing Muslim contender to compose assessments during the Jumu'ah time frame while Christians are not exposed to a similar treatment on Sunday establishes outrageous incitement. It is strict mistreatment fundamentally.
"MURIC's vision of Nigeria is that of a country where individuals of all religions are dealt with a similar way; where Christians, Muslims and conventionalists live respectively in harmony and agreement; a country wherein nobody is persecuted; where each resident appreciates Allah-given central human rights paying little heed to class, ideology, or ethnicity.
"In our finishing up comments, we bid to WAEC, other assessment bodies and offices to make equivalent rights and equity a cardinal rule. WAEC has recently affirmed that its schedule isn't prepared at this point.
"This suggests there is as yet adequate chance to design its Friday subjects so that it gives sufficient space for Muslims to go to the mosque and return without being put under undue tension.
"The Friday question is extremely touchy among Muslims and it is our modest supposition that WAEC will incite harmony in Nigeria on the off chance that it abstains from fixing assessments during the Friday Jumu'ah petition in the entirety of its future assessments."
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