Acting
President, Yemi Osinbajo has met with members of Christian Association
of Nigeria at a closed door meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on
Wednesday.
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo
The Christan Association of Nigeria (CAN) has made five demands on
the Federal Government. The Nation revealed that the demands were handed
over to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo at a closed door meeting at the
Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday.
The five demands, which were obtained on Thursday night include “Change obnoxious curriculum that demands students study Islamic Arabic Studies.
“Arrest and prosecute murderous herdsmen
“Arrest and prosecute those who called for the expulsion of Igbos
“Turn our youths into Entrepreneurs
“Stop kidnapping on our roads.”
CAN was led on the courtesy visit by its President, His Eminence, Rev Dr Samson Olasupo A Ayokunle.
His full speech read:
“Your Excellency Sir,
The leadership of Christian Association of Nigeria, the
umbrella body for all Christian churches in Nigeria is here today to pay
you a goodwill visit and to pray for the speedy recovery of the
President of our nation, President Muhammadu Buhari so that he might be
able to come back home and continue with his leadership responsibilities
of this country to the good of all. It is our prayer that there would
be miraculous intervention in his healing and all praises shall be to
God.
“This is our sacred duty as fellow human beings who can also
fall sick and as Christians who value so much the life of all living
creatures, especially human beings.
“On the other hand, we want to commend your Excellency for
doing your best to see that no vacuum is created by the team left behind
by the President in the governance of the nation. We are watching the
dexterity with which you are leading others to carry out government
business with sense of admiration and thanks to God. We commend your
submission to your principal and your humility in service. May God cause
every grace to abound towards you so that you might be able to hold
fort better each day until the President returns in the name of Jesus.
Please be assured of our prayers always.
Obnoxious, divisive and ungodly secondary school curriculum.
We are here to point your attention to a time-bomb, obnoxious,
divisive and ungodly secondary school curriculum that the Federal
Ministry of Education is introducing into our schools and of which we
had earlier complained to the Presidency. Then, if I am not mistaking,
it was suspended but has again been re-introduced without any review at
all. This curriculum the brain-child of Nigerian Educational Research
Council, an agency of the Federal Ministry of Education. To us in
Christian Association of Nigeria, it’s introduction is an ill-wind that
blows nobody any good for so many reasons. Lead a State has started
implementing it already and Christians that are more on the receiving
side of it are already crying fowl because of its potential dangers now
or in the future.
In this curriculum, Islamic and Christian Religious Studies
will no longer be studied in schools as subjects on their own but as
themes in a civic education. This is undermine the sound mitral values
that these two subjects had imparted in the past to our children which
had made us to religiously and ethnically co-exist without any tension.
It was some three or two decades ago when our education planners started
removing the teaching of religious values through the cancellation of
morning devotion in schools that all these violence by youths in
different forms came on board. I was in a meeting yesterday with some
Muslim leaders where one of them also expressed his fears about the
dangers in this new curriculum. As prophets to the nation, we demand a
complete withdraw and ban of this curriculum. If allowed to be
implemented, it would lead us to a godless nation with violence and all
forms of ungodliness as the order of the day.
Furthermore sir, this curriculum went ahead to introduce
Islamic Arabic Studies in another section together with French and made
one of the two compulsory for the student. You are aware that we have
very low percentage of French teachers in all our secondary schools in
Nigeria. I am sure that over 80% of our secondary schools do not have
French teachers at all but have Arabic teachers. The implication is that
Christian students would have no choice than to study Arabic. If a
Christian student voluntarily goes to study Islamic Religious Studies,
there is nothing bad in that because some of us in both religions had
done that before for better understanding, however, where the student is
tactically forced into studying it because the alternative subject does
not have teacher to teach it, it is a great problem tending to
Islamization.
Still in this curriculum, Islamic Religious Knowledge was
equally made available as a subject in another section without any
corresponding availability of Christian Religious Knowledge. Is this not
a divisive curriculum that can set the nation on fire? Is this fair to
millions of Christians in this nation? A Christian student in a
secondary school in Kwara State had the body lacerated with cane by the
Arabic Teacher because the pupil refused to do Arabic Studies when
French Teacher was not available and Christian Religious Knowledge,
Hebrew or Greek were not part of the options at all. If we are going to
do pilgrimage together as a nation, there must be fairplay, mutual
respect for one another and justice which can be brought about by
different arms of government. We demand for justice from the government
on this matter very quickly. We would request for a return to the
curriculum we were using before this dangerous one which did not produce
insurgents or a wrongly indoctrinated Nigerians. A stitch in time saves
nine.
Bring Murderous Herdsmen and Kidnappers to Book
You are aware sir how the rampaging Herdsmen have been
decimating the lives of farmers in this nation from the North to the
South, the East and the West. Southern Kaduna is not totally free from
their grip up till now. Killing and maiming of farmers continue in
Benue, Enugu, Abraka in Delta State just to mention a few. The most
painful thing is that we are seeing their victims without the
seriousness from the law enforcement agents to arrest and successfully
prosecute the murderous herdsmen. This has encouraged them to continue
in their killing and kidnapping spree with reckless abandon.
Don’t we have a competent government in place with all the
necessary law enforcement apparatus to ensure law and order? This
government has to do more than what you have done presently to bring
these criminals to Book. They had deemed the hopes of many and caused
unprecedented sorrow in many homes. Please sir, do something to the
activities of herdsmen before they destroy almost all Nigerians or
before everybody would look for weapons for self defence. The sources of
their weapons must be probed.
We thank the Police and DSS for their recent breakthrough in
apprehending some kidnappers around the country. This effort must be
sustained for safety of all of us in our movements for our daily bread.
We urge you to call the attention of Kogi State Governor and the
Inspector General of Police to the kidnapping ring on Lokoja-Okene Road,
Lokoja-Kabba Road and Abuja-Kaduna Road. Every week, several travellers
are kidnapped on these roads. The feelers we have from those who got
set free from them after the payment of huge ransom was that from the
kidnappers’ conversations, the Police and the Community Leaders are
partners with the kidnappers in the evil act. These two groups receive
their own share from kidnapping. We suspect that the money amassed from
kidnapping may still be used to cause further havoc by the terrorists
perpetrating this act. We are hopeful that through your intervention and
our prayer backing, there would be reprieve for Nigerians.
Ultimatum from some Northern Youths and an Elder for the Ibos to vacate the North.
We are so disappointed to hear the ultimatum of hate made by
some Northern Youths that the Easterners of Igbo extraction should leave
every part of Northern Nigeria within three months. We condemn such
statement in strong terms and we see it as divisive, misguided,
ethnocentric and unconstitutional. We urge that the law enforcement
agents should be directed by you to go after those behind it whether
young or old. It is a reasonable statement that no amount of previous
provocation can justify. We commend you for talking tough on this
dangerous statement but still urge sir that you get them arrested as
Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra was arrested and
prosecuted. We believe in one indivisible Nigeria where our diversities
can be explored for growth and development. We must be tolerant of one
another and co-exist in love.
Youth Unemployment
Youth unemployment is another development of great concern in
our nation. We urge your government to pay more attention to this issue
by creating investment friendly environment that would absolve millions
of youth roaming the streets daily without job or hope for tomorrow.
Industrial Estates should be created as the late sage Chief Obafemi
Awolowo did in Lagos which brought many industries to Lagos and is still
the life wire of Lagos State economy till today and a major employer of
labour. If this is done, kidnapping and other violent crimes would
reduce and there would be tranquillity in the country.
We would appreciate that from time to time you would create
time to see the leadership of CAN for progressive discussion like this
and prayers.
Thank you very much sir for your time and patience.
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