WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE REMOVAL OF ARABIC LANGUAGE ON THE NAIRA NOTE? Having watched and listened to Prof Ishaq Akintola, president of Muslims Rights Concern (MURIC) on STV television station this morning argue and agitate for the return of an arabic inscription which has been removed by president GEJs administration on the naira note. Arabic language is not on the new hundred (100) naira note , unlike the old design. He threatened that the muslims will reject the note and will not use it because of this feature that has been removed. He argued that the muslim community in the north especially, understand arabic language and not english language which is a language spoken by christian countries! He said the ordinary people in the north will not be able to identify and use it since they dont understand or read words in english language. It is noteworthy that one hundred naira is written in igbo, hausa and yoruba languages on this note to allow majority of Nigerians to identify it with a local language as an alternative. This man is a professor. The questions that readily comes to mind are: 1). Is arabic language among Nigerias official languages? 2). Why will Nigerias currency be identified with words in arabic language, is it not erroneous? 3). Whose fault is it that those so called ordinary people of the north cannot understand english language? 4). If they are unable to read english language, cant they identify the notes by the figure (100) boldly printed at the corners of the note on both sides? Etc. He also agitated for the return of the use of hijab by muslim girls in public schools In Lagos state, which the state scrapped this year at the wake of terrorists using teenage girls to carry and detonate bombs at public places. His group went to court to reverse it, but lost the case to Lagos state govt. What do you think of this man, his group and their demands?
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:45:58 +0000
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