WEST AFRICA: IRIN-WA Weekly Roundup 44
NIGERIA: Vigilante group to enforce Sharia
Nigeria's northern state of Zamfara has formed a 2,000-strong vigilante
group armed with swords, batons, knives and axes to enforce Islamic law, or
Sharia, AFP reported on Wednesday.
Zamfara was the first state in Nigeria to declare Sharia. Eight others have
followed, and a group representing Christians in the nine states has
complained of discrimination. The Tarayyor Mashihi-hiyawa organisation,
meeting in Lagos in late October said Christians were denied land on which
to build churches and bury their dead, and that their children were denied
access to schools.
The 13-year-old association has more than 10 million Christian Hausa, Kanuri
and Fulani members.
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