Amasa Firdaus, the Nigerian Law School graduate who was refused her call to the bar for failing to remove her hijab, has said that her defiance was to challenge the status quo, and her demand remains the need to approve the use of hijabs among Muslim law graduates.
In an interview with Premium Times, Firdaus, a UNILORIN law graduate, maintained that she remained resolute in her convictions to set a precedent for hijab-wearing Muslims during the ceremony.
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Recall that Firdaus was refused entry into the hall for insisting on wearing the wig on top of her hijab.
She said.
“My major concern is the approval of the hijab so that every person coming behind me will be able to use it for the call to bar (ceremony).”
When asked whether she was aware of rules and regulations that guide against the use of the hijab at the ceremony, she said there were none, stressing that it was merely based on conventions.
“There is nothing like that (laws preventing the use of hijab).” “When you ask them to, they tell you it is conventional, that that is how it is done, and it has to remain like that.”
Asked what motivated her to make the decision, she explained that she wanted to change the narrative and give Muslim sisters the right to express their constitutional rights as enshrined in the constitution.
“I knew that was what was going to happen,” she said of the consequences of her decision. She, however, said she remained resolute in her convictions to speak for the recognition of the rights of female Muslim law graduates.
She explained further that the law school has not said anything about the case, adding that the support from the Muslim community has been impressive.
“My demand is that the hijab should be approved,” she affirmed.