Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has demanded the immediate reopening of Mogadishu Cantonment mosque in Abuja.
The organisation mentioned the closure of the mosque has disadvantaged Muslims the appropriate to worship within the cantonment.
MURIC made the demand in a press release signed by its Executive Director, Professor Isiaq Akintola, on Tuesday.
Akintola, who defined that the mosque was closed on October 12, 2026, mentioned the closure violated the appropriate to freedom of worship for the Muslim troopers and their family residing in and across the cantonment.
“We therefore demand the immediate reopening of the mosque or the provision of convincing and incontrovertible reason for such closure.
”The day by day prayers mosque within the Nigerian Army’s Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja, has allegedly been closed since twelfth October, 2026 by the military authorities throughout the cantonment,” the assertion mentioned.
