Three years after the religious bill was censured by different religious bodies and individuals, the Assembly eventually passed the bill last Friday for public hearing and signing into law by Governor Nasir el-Rufai.
A local government inter-faith committee has been established in each of the 23 councils of the state to consider and recommend to the state inter-faith regulation council all applications for licence to preachers, as well as screen and recommend preachers, among other functions. It adds that any person who plays religious recording or uses a loud speaker for religious purposes between 11pm and 4am in a public place, or uses a loudspeaker for religious purposes other than inside a church or mosque commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for not less than two years or pay a fine of N200,000 or both.
Legal adviser to JNI, Muhammad Shamwilu, told The Guardian that passage of the bill came at the appropriate time, to prevent religious crises in the state.“This will curb future occurrence of crises in the society. Some people are agitating that Shiites abuse the wife of the holy prophet and that is why they were after them. When we met at the State House, everybody that hate speeches should be included in the bill.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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