ECOWAS urge West African countries to ban use of full-face veils

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) leaders have been urged to ban the wearing of full-face veils by Muslim women as part of an effort to limit the growing number of Boko Haram female

suicide bombings.

ECOWAS President Kadre Desire Ouedraogo told reporters at the close of a two-day summit in Abuja that countries should enforce the ban in line with their national realities. The move would forbid dress that prevents security personnel from being able to identify women.

Congo Republic, Senegal and Cameroon have all banned the wearing of full-face veils in public. A professor of political science at Kaduna State University, Osman Mohammed, who spoke on the issue, said national security should outweigh personal religious freedom….. I’ll kp wearing it tho. Na una sabi…..