While the ongoing issue should not be mistaken as religion bigotry, for education to function properly, every apparatus needed, cap, beret, socks etc, to create an enabling environment has been part of the system before now.
Unless we want to include religion portion to the laid down apparatus which we can come out, declare and pursue with vigor.
Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, you made it clear, in your explanations on Hijab, that you did not approve the use of Hijab, and while there is a restraining order, your visit to Baptist High School, Iwo was flaunted with students adorning Hijab around you, the ‘man of the people’.
Several male students, like the one circled in yellow, were putting on a white cap WHILE, YOU, THE GOVERNOR PUT ON THE APPROVED SCHOOL CAP to set an 'example' as to HOW TO DRESS TO SCHOOL.
I wonder why you set one example and our pupils are doing something else.
If it is to cover the head, for female students, several female students, like the one circled in white adorn themselves with the approved beret.
If we still have the beret and the cap, what then are the use of Hijab and the white cap (note, again, another male student circled in red)?
If this whole issue is sensible, why then are your officers, circled in black, putting on their approved caps instead of caps that will define their religion affiliates?
While our Muslim brothers and sisters will see this argument in a different light, the ongoing issue will take a new turn when Sunni Muslims or Tembliks or Almadiyah sects start coming to school with their own identities, that is if the traditionalists haven't call for deliberation on their educational apparatus, afterall, Ifa was included as one of the educational materials in Opon Imo?
This is a circular society that will continue to coexist peacefully if our elected officials continue to see themselves as a tool of the people and NOT THEIR PEOPLE.
If we look very well, there is always a crack even in the smoothest rock.
Thank you,
Don Abiodun Odedeyi
Unless we want to include religion portion to the laid down apparatus which we can come out, declare and pursue with vigor.
Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, you made it clear, in your explanations on Hijab, that you did not approve the use of Hijab, and while there is a restraining order, your visit to Baptist High School, Iwo was flaunted with students adorning Hijab around you, the ‘man of the people’.
Several male students, like the one circled in yellow, were putting on a white cap WHILE, YOU, THE GOVERNOR PUT ON THE APPROVED SCHOOL CAP to set an 'example' as to HOW TO DRESS TO SCHOOL.
I wonder why you set one example and our pupils are doing something else.
If it is to cover the head, for female students, several female students, like the one circled in white adorn themselves with the approved beret.
If we still have the beret and the cap, what then are the use of Hijab and the white cap (note, again, another male student circled in red)?
If this whole issue is sensible, why then are your officers, circled in black, putting on their approved caps instead of caps that will define their religion affiliates?
While our Muslim brothers and sisters will see this argument in a different light, the ongoing issue will take a new turn when Sunni Muslims or Tembliks or Almadiyah sects start coming to school with their own identities, that is if the traditionalists haven't call for deliberation on their educational apparatus, afterall, Ifa was included as one of the educational materials in Opon Imo?
This is a circular society that will continue to coexist peacefully if our elected officials continue to see themselves as a tool of the people and NOT THEIR PEOPLE.
If we look very well, there is always a crack even in the smoothest rock.
Thank you,
Don Abiodun Odedeyi
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