DSS Summons MURIC Director, Akintola Over Comment Made Against Governor Seyi Makinde On Oyo Muslims Persecution

 The Director of Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), Professor Ishaq Akintola has been summoned by the Department of State Security Service (DSS) over allegations he made against Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde.

Akintola had few days ago accused Governor Seyi Makinde, of “aiding and abetting Oyo State school authorities, who are in the habit of forcing Muslim students and Muslim teachers to sing Christmas carol.”

He had alleged that “Under Seyi Makinde’s watch, Muslim students were herded like sheep to attend the crusade of a German Christian crusader, Evangelist Daniel Kolenda, in November 2021. Oyo State public schools were used for the crusade during school hours.

He also accused the Oyo Government of letting muslim applicants attend screening exercise for appointment where they were made to answer questions on the Bible in August 2020. Under Makinde’s watch, Muslim teachers were forced to attend a screening exercise on Salah day in July 2022. Yet these are schools using public funds and Muslims are the majority among tax-payers in the state.

“Makinde has a plethora of anti-Muslim actions for which he has never apologized. We have no doubt that he will continue to condone the persecution of Muslim students and Muslim teachers until he is kicked out of office. We, therefore, remind Oyo State Muslims to take their destiny into their own hands by using their voting power to send away their traducer.”

The DSS has now told Akintola to report to their office in Oyo within one week from receiving their invitation letter.

MURIC while reacting through its Ogun State Chairman, Alhaji Tajudeen Jimoh Alao and the State Secretary, Mr Olaleye Rasheed Damilare on Friday,16th of December,2022 berated the invitation.

 "We are particularly disturbed by the insistence of the officers of Oyo State D.S.S Office that Professor Ishaq Akintola, the director of MURIC, must report to their office in Ibadan, Oyo State, for questioning despite Professor Akintola's poor health which he explained to the DSS. Although the caller agreed that our director could report in their office within one week, we still find this disturbing because they refused to tell him his offence."

"Our guess is that he is being invited in connection with a press release of Monday, 6th of December, 2022 in which MURIC cautioned Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State against the repression of Muslim students and teachers who were forced to sing Christmas carol in St.Annes School 1 senior, St Annes School 2, and St Annes Junior school, Molete, Ibadan", the statement reads.