By a unanimous voice vote, members
of the House of Representatives at plenary on Tuesday jettisoned the Buhari’s
government policy which subsumed Christian Religious Knowledge, CRK in Civic
Education as a compulsory subject in the Secondary School curriculum.
This followed a motion titled “Call
to make Civic Education an optional instead of a compulsory subject for Senior
Certificate Examination”, filed by Hon. Beni Lar from Plateau State. The
members after an exhaustive debate on the motion agreed that the policy was
incongruent with the spirit and letters of the 1999 Constitution (as amended)
on the provision of religious liberties.
The members agreed that students
with the inputs of their parents at formative years should be taught the
religious subjects of their choice in school. Essentially, the House while
pointing out that the policy makers erred ab initio also agreed Islamic Studies
and CRK should be taught independently and separately in the spirit of the
constitution.
It will be recalled that the issue recently
became a subject of controversy whereupon tempers flared.
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