Ogun League of Imams, Alfas condemn proposed return of public schools to missionaries

The League of Imams and Alfas successful Ogun State, connected Monday, rejected plans by the authorities authorities to instrumentality nationalist schools to missionary bodies.

They described the determination arsenic “ill-advised, provocative, and unjustifiable.”

Recall that past week, Governor Dapo Abiodun, portion receiving the Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria, Most Rev. Michael Crotty, accompanied by the Catholic Bishop of Ijebu-Ode, Most Rev. Francis Adesina; the Catholic Bishop of Abeokuta, Most Rev. Peter Odetoyinbo; and different Catholic officials during a courtesy sojourn to his bureau astatine Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, said each missionary schools would beryllium returned to their archetypal proprietors.

He acknowledged the contributions of spiritual organisations, but contended that the authorities could not execute its objectives without the backstage sector.

“We volition instrumentality each missionary schools to their owners. It is not successful our argumentation to bash it alone. We request to articulation hands with backstage individuals and we promote further concern with the religion to grow development,” Governor Abiodun stated.

Reacting to this, the Secretary General of the League of Imams and Alfas successful the state, Imam Tajudeen Adewunmi, successful a connection made disposable to ...