Still on Arabic inscription on naira

By Usman Bello Balarabe

Sir: I refer to the suit filed by one Lagos-based-lawyer, Malcolm Omirhobo against the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Attorney General of the Federation in which had claimed that the Arabic inscriptions (Ajami) on naira notes symbolize the religion of Islam and argued that it is a threat to Nigeria as a secular country.

There are millions of Islamic books written in different languages including the Muslims Holy Book (Koran) which has its English, French, Hebrew versions amongst others.  Just like the Hebrew version of the Koran does not make it ‘Jewish Koran’ or ‘Christian Koran’ so also the Arabic version of the Bible does not make it an ‘Islamic Bible’.