than eleven fresh court cases against the school, its principal, Mrs. Phebean Olowe, University of Ibadan and UI Vice Chancellor over the denial of female Muslim students in the school to use Hijab on top of their uniforms.
Our correspondent recalls that the use of Hijab by female Muslim students has since November 2018 been generating a lot of controversies which made parents of some Muslim students to jointly sue the school, its principal, University of Ibadan and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the school who also doubled as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the university.
The Chairman of the Forum, Alhaji Abdur-Rahman Balogun disclosed that the Muslim parents took the new step of filling the 11 court cases in line with recent harassments of students in the school, having exhausted all avenues to engage the school authorities in amicable settlements and after the last case filed was struck out of court last month.
“We had three meetings to settle out of court. We shifted grounds. We said, okay tell us the mode of dressing you want, the shape, size, colour. But they insisted that status quo remains. I have here the school rules. There is nothing there that says students cannot wear hijab. Even if there is anything like that, the constitution supersedes any other enabling law. They are not ready to shift. We met thrice in d office of Dr. S.P.A Ajibade, their lead counsel.
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