Traditional Religion Worshippers Association, on Wednesday, urged both the Federal and State Governments to establish schools where traditional religious knowledge would be taught as a subject to impact the younger generation.
The Secretary of the Oyo State branch of the association, Fayemi Fakayode, in a statement, urged the governments to include traditional religious knowledge as a subject in primary and secondary curricula like Islamic Religious Knowledge and Christian Religious Knowledge.
Fakayode stressed the need for proper education to enlighten the younger generation of the Yoruba history and antecedent.
He said the miseducation of Africans about their origin and culture had led to many wrong perceptions about their traditional religion.
He said children should not be taught about their own religion, culture, tradition, and history by foreigners and those from other religions, who have painted the religion in a bad light to lure them away.
The Secretary said “We made this call during the installation of two Brazilians, Awoyomi Fakayode and Iyanifa Ifatayo Obemo as Meyegun and Yeye Mayegun of Ijo Imole Olodumare Agbaye on Sunday at Alade Town in the Akinye Local Government Area of the state.
“The time has come for both the Federal and State Governments to include TRK as a subject in the primary and secondary curriculum like they have the IRK and CRK. There is a need for proper education to impart to the younger generations and religion.
“Also there is a need to equip the younger generation with culturally based knowledge which will make them useful for themselves and their land as well as implanting in them the spirit of patriotism that will make them unyielding to the spirit of betraying their ancestors.
“We call on the traditionalists to start making efforts to establish this subject in our primary and secondary schools, while the Federal and State Governments will give it the needed support by approving its inclusion in the school’s syllabus and curriculum.”