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| Group Gives Police 7 Days To Arrest Traditional Worshippers Who Attacked Muslims In Osun Mosque |
| 2023-04-03 |
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Ta'awunu Human Rights Initiative (THURIST) has frowned upon an attack on Moslems at a mosque in Ile-Ife, Osun State in Southwest Nigeria. The human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedomat the convenience of the state... group said it had received a report of a coordinated attack on a group of Moslem faithful in their mosque in the holy month of Ramadan. A statement issued on Saturday by Barr. Sulaymon A. Tadese, the Director-General of the group said, "We had been informed of how a group of Moslem faithful who were observing the last segment of the five obligatory Moslem prayers in their mosque on Thursday, 30th March, 2023 at around 4:30 pm in the evening were attacked by a group of Oro traditional worshippers at Idi Omoh, Ilare, Ile-Ife in which the Imam and other Moslems praying in the said mosque were fatally injured for offence of not obeying Oro Curfew! "The human rights group does not only condemn this despicable act in the strongest term on Moslems in their own mosque and the subsequent wanton destruction of the mosque properties within the premises but also express dissatisfaction over the incompetence, nonchalant and complacency of the Osun State Commissioner of Police to the security of lives and properties of Moslems in Osun State as the chief law enforcement officer of the state. "We recall that similar infractions were had in Ede and Iwo during a public air lecture sometime last year — 2022. The continuance of these unprovoked attacks on peace-loving Moslems is an invitation to chaos. "However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the human rights group demands a thorough investigation into this provocation by persons who think they have more rights than others under the guise of traditional worshippers. "The Ede, Iwo and now Ile-Ife incidences are one too many. The state commissioner of police is given a seven-day ultimatum to cause an immediate arrest, arraignment and prosecution of perpetrators of this criminal act of public disturbance and attempted murder of peaceful people contrary to the law of the land. "Freedom of religion is constitutionally guaranteed as encapsulated even in the African Charter of People and Human Rights. We shall keep track of this matter until Justice is done and served." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Oro worship is a pre-Islam Yoruba tradition — adult males only, as a community. See here. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-04-03 16:27 |
| #2 this is in Nigeria |
| Posted by: lord garth 2023-04-03 12:30 |
| #1 what is a traditional worshipper? |
| Posted by: Thailing Clomoger1646 2023-04-03 11:42 |