Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has demanded the immediate reopening of Mogadishu Cantonment mosque in Abuja.
The organisation stated the closure of the mosque has disadvantaged Muslims the correct to worship within the cantonment.
MURIC made the demand in an announcement signed by its Executive Director, Professor Isiaq Akintola, on Tuesday.
Akintola, who defined that the mosque was closed on October 12, 2026, stated the closure violated the correct to freedom of worship for the Muslim troopers and their kinfolk dwelling in and across the cantonment.
“We subsequently demand the immediate reopening of the mosque or the supply of convincing and incontrovertible cause for such closure.
”The every day prayers mosque within the Nigerian Army’s Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja, has allegedly been closed since twelfth October, 2026 by the military authorities inside the cantonment,” the assertion stated.
