Muslim gatherings reprimand WAEC over 2018 exams timetable

- Muslims have reprimanded the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) for permitting some portion of its examination conflict with the Friday Jummat petition - The Muslim Friday supplications for the most part hold between 1:30pm to 3pm - Candidates will compose Chemistry paper from 2pm to 5pm on Friday, April 20 Muslim gatherings have condemned the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) for permitting some portion of its examination conflict with the Friday Jummat petition, Premium Times reports. In the timetable for 2018 May/June Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE), applicants will compose Chemistry paper from 2pm to 5pm on Friday, April 20. The paper will conflict with Muslim Friday petitions which as a rule hold between 1:30 pm to 3pm. Ishaq Akintola, leader of MURIC, said the timetable was a "foul play" against Muslims, whom he guaranteed had progressed toward becoming "jeopardized species." "When there is no equity, there can never be peace and everybody is clamoring for peace," he said. As indicated by him, WAEC had settled examinations amid Jummat sessions for a few years and Muslim pioneers talked about with the chamber in 2016 and 2017. Applicants will compose a Chemistry paper from 2pm to 5pm on Friday, April 20. Photograph credit: WAEC READ ALSO: WAEC subjects for science understudies His words: "Until the point when something begins happening, until the point when the Muslims begin disturbing WAEC examination, until the point when Muslims begin tearing WAEC examination materials, that is when government will begin focusing. "WAEC is playing amusements and they need the Muslims to make clamor each year, the committee is intentionally inciting Muslims and it has kept on showing itself as a predictable against Muslim foundation. "Segment 38 subsection 1 and 2 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria's constitution stipulates that there must be opportunity of love and WAEC settling an examination for 2pm basically implies that WAEC does not need Muslims to adore, in this manner WAEC is an oppressor and we are prepared for them. "The Muslims in each region of the exam can assemble upon the arrival of the examination and go to the schools which the exams will be composed, we are sending this notice to WAEC not to challenge it." He included that settling a noteworthy subject at Jummat time is "illicit, illegal and unlawful." On his part, the main Imam of the University of Port Harcourt, AbdulRazaq Kilani, said it had turned into a typical story in Nigeria that Muslims need to dissent before straightforward rights can be given to them. "WAEC is a universal association, one would have expected that they take due perseverance by distinguishing subjects that they could put on Friday which are not center subjects like carpentry, materials among others that are not offered by substantial number of applicants. So putting Chemistry there isn't right," he said. He said Muslims may interest for sans work Friday if the "mistreatment" proceeds. "On the off chance that the seventh day Adventist have Saturday and alternate Christians have Sunday and the two hours the Muslims are requesting on Friday is being detracted from them, at that point the Muslim can ask (for) work free Friday which will cause an established issue for Nigeria, it is smarter to allow the Muslims their entitlement to venerate," he said. READ ALSO: WAEC subject blend for law Mutiat Orolu-Balogun, a legal counselor, said Nigeria is a multi-social religious society, in which everybody must have a sense having a place and equity. "We are not all the same and attempting to give a similar thing a chance to apply to everyone will just outcome in disarray and turmoil. We as a whole realize that Muslims from time remembrance dependably go for their Jummat petition on Friday; I don't figure it will be reasonable for settle an exam amid the time," she said. She said the chamber ought to have made the period free taking note of that understudies may not make it so as to the examination lobby and make due with the paper regardless of whether the petition time is in the vicinity of 1pm and 2pm. "I don't recognize what crisis it is that the Chemistry must hold that day; are they saying something terrible will happen on the off chance that they add one additional day to WAEC timetable, I don't get the reason. Shouldn't something be said about the staff, invigilators and administrators that have the rights to be at the Jummat supplication. I know it has never occurred in history and it can never occur for WAEC exam to be settled on Sunday morning when a great many people will be in chapel," she included. Saheed Ashafa, the Amir of Muslim Students Society of Nigeria, said the demonstration by the board implies contempt for the serene concurrent of the Muslims. "I have seen the timetable of the understudy and it is irritating that a body like WAEC will fix such exam amid a period when muslim understudies are required to go and play out a major religious capacity and act. "For us as Muslim understudies, we censure the demonstration in totality and we approach WAEC to reschedule the examination and the Muslim won't oblige it since it is exceedingly unsatisfactory, we will make a few moves previously the exam begins on the off chance that they decline to transform it when we expect, we accept there is still time for WAEC to alter so we can have a quiet circumstance on the issue," he said. Whenever reached, the executive of open undertakings WAEC Nigeria, Demianus Ojijeogu, affirmed that science 1 and 2 was settled for 2pm to 5pm on Friday April 20, 2018 by the gathering. He said the board has contrived a manner by which the subject won't conflict with the supplication time. As indicated by him, for the general population who will go to the mosque, the exam will be postponed till they return. "The paper will be postponed till 2:30 p.m. or on the other hand 3 p.m. till the Muslims are back (from) mosque," he said. Then, experts in far-away have purportedly requested that understudies not wear shoes or socks to prevent them from conning amid exams. BBC revealed that that the measure was to prevent understudies from sneaking notes with answers into the exam lobby.