Traditional Religion Worshippers Association, has urged both the Federal and State Governments to include traditional religious knowledge in their curriculum to impact the younger generation.
The Secretary of the Oyo State branch of the association, Fayemi Fakayode, made the call in a statement on Wednesday.
He urged the governments to include traditional religious knowledge as a subject in primary and secondary curricula as they have Islamic Religious Knowledge and Christian Religious Knowledge.
Fakayode pointed out the need for proper education to acquaint younger generation with the Yoruba history and antecedent.
He noted that the miseducation of Africans about their origin and culture had led to many wrong perceptions about their traditional religion.
The association scribe stressed that 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.
“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,” Fakayode said.
