نيجيريا: محامون مسلمون يطالبون بتطبيق الشريعة بالولايات الجنوبية

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أعلنت جمعية المحامين المسلمين بـ"نيجيريا" في مؤتمرها السنوي الخامس بولاية "كادونا" أنها تسعى لتطبيق الشريعة الإسلامية بالولايات الجنوبية، بموجب نص الدستور على قانونية هذا الأمر عام 1999.

وقد أعلنت الجمعية معارضتها لمحاولات التخلي عن أحكام الشريعة الإسلامية المتعلقة بالأسرة، مستنكرةً انتهاك حقوق المسلمين بالبلاد في ظل الألفاظ الخادعة التي تتضمنها عبارات قانون الأمن الوطني. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Muslim Lawyers Want Sharia in Southern States

A group, Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria (MULAN) rose from their 5th annual general conference in Kaduna State, declaring that they will ensure that the introduction of Sharia legal system in the southern states as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.

The group said this against the backdrop that it concerns the determination of Islamic personal laws as it relates to marriage, divorce and inheritance.

The lawyers also called for an end to the trial of the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, demanding that the judicial process be accelerated to end his long travail and persecution.

In a communiuque at the end of the conference in Kaduna, MULAN said it would collaborate with the National Assembly to abrogate all discriminatory provisions in the constitution of Nigeria that tends to strengthen the settler/indigene dichotomy that has precipitated many crises in various parts of the country.

The communiqué signed by the National President of the body, Alhaji Tajudeen Oladoja, the body also urged the Federal Government not to hesitate to invoke its power under the constitution by declaring a state of emergency in any state of the federation plagued by ethno-religious crisis.