The group explained that using women in the veil cast aspersion on Islamic ethics and values.
Pro-Muslim human rights organisation, the Ta'awunu Human Rights Initiative (THURIST), has warned skit makers to desist from pranking or skitting with women on veil.
The group while calling on the Nigerian government to regulate the use of social media and skit-making to avoid a breakdown of law and order, explained that using women in the veil cast aspersion on Islamic ethics and values.
THURIST gave the warning in a statement issued on Friday, titled: "A note of warning to Skit Makers: Abstain from deriding Islamic Ethics and Values," which was signed by its Nigeria Director General, Sulaymon Tadese.
SaharaReporters reported on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, that a Magistrate Court at Iyaganku, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, ordered the continual remand of skit maker and prankster, Abdullahi Maruff Adisa, popularly known as Trinity Guy, in prison for allegedly sexualising a minor in a viral skit video till the next adjourned date slated for August 3, 2023.
The court also ordered the remand of the parents of the minor Mr Isiaka Ahmed, 40, and his wife Rofiat Ahmed, 29.
The Islamic rights organisation in the statement decried the rate at which morality and dignity of humans was being dragged in the mud in the name of skit-making, adding that such development needs to be properly and promptly addressed to forestall any unwarranted consequences that may arise therefrom.
"Skit makers have now made anyone a cast in shooting skit to gain 'netizens' attention at the expense of the inconvenience of innocent citizens, passers-by, unsuspecting job seekers, aged and ailing people anywhere and at any time.
"It is important to state that the recent threat to life on a veiled woman in a recent viral video is one of the many threats and dangers skit makers expose innocent citizens to in the name of Skit making."
The organisation queried, "How do you explain a sane person pranking a woman dressed in a dignified religious garb as in the case with the Niqab lady in the viral video and her attending reaction in the name of skit-making? Isn't that an indication that there are no regulations governing the act of skit-making in this country?
"The Ta'awunu Human Rights Initiative however wishes to inform the general public, skit makers, and prospective skit makers to desist from pranking or skitting innocent citizens especially women on veil as these set of people are dignified, distinguished, and exceptional by their appearance which makes them worthy of being treated with respect."
It, however, noted that the arrest and prosecution of Abdullahi Maruff Adisa, should serve as deterrence to other skit makers who believe a skit could be made without the modesty it deserved or regulations.