AGAINST CAN, MUSLIM UMMAH AND OTHER RELIGIOUS BODIES.

Recently, Nigeria had to deal with one of its major issues again. The issue of Islamizing Nigeria. And it was the same religious bodies that led the fight. That is not my problem, Nigeria is always what it is, a secular nation.

And as far the documents were concerned, this issue had been available since 2014, when the Federal Government decided to merge CRS and IRK into one Subject, Civic Education. That’s not even my issue. My issue is the hypocrisy of these religious institutions.

So with all the decadence in the educational sector of Nigeria, the only thing CAN could do was to advocate that CRS be included in the Syllables? With the poor state of Universities, the countless number of children that sit on the ground in public schools, the number of school drop outs, the standard of education, the failure rate among students, the poor reading culture… etc. all that CAN could do was to simply advocate for inclusion of CRS.

I am not surprised, even they the CAN, Muslim Ummah, are also benefiting from these rot of the system that is why they are so blind as not to campaign against it..

By the way, if schools have to be teaching CRS, IRK, etc, then what is the function of the religious institutions? In other words, if CRS/IRK is taught by schools, then what are the religious institutions doing as an existing institution? Propaganda?

I know what they are doing, they are contributing to the corruptness of the system by accommodating political thieves, recommending unqualified candidates of their faiths for jobs, receiving tithes of our stolen treasury and sending faithful’s to MECCA with our own money.

The recent blunder that happened in the Catholic Diocese of Akwa Ibom is the last blow that speaks what I am saying. That a church member was excommunicated simply because he joined a protest against the action of the state government. And this is the same church that would offer its pulpit to politicians by 2019.

What have CAN or the Muslim Ummah said about the current ASUU strike? Nothing. That is all they have doing-nothing, until you touch anything related to their faith.

By their acts, they have proved the words of Karl Marx to be true, “religion is an opium of the masses”, that the religious bodies do not bother on how to elevate the social, cultural, intellectual and mental capacity of their adherents.

The hypocrisy of our religious institutions have contributed largely to our fallen state. Our religious institutions wield large control, if only they can turn such influence for the good of entire Nigeria, many of our current issues would be adequately dealt with. If the religious institutions can add their voice to the fight against corruption, if they can add their voice to the plight of the underdog, if they can add their voice to advocating for peace, if they can their voice to national development and if they can add their voice to education, Nigeria would become a haven.

It has been experimented and proved right here in Nigeria. In the years before Democracy, the religious bodies become a strong voice for Democracy. Their efforts paid off. History has recorded that.

Let’s make another history.