By; USMAN NASIDI, Kaduna
In an effort to curtail negative teachings in various Islamic centres and schools across the nation, the Muslim Peace Network in Nigeria (MPN), has organized a one-day sensitization workshop for Arabic school teachers to inculcate peace among the children by creating awareness towards building peaceful coexistence society.
The event was held at Mold Treasury Academy, Kaduna with the theme, “A one-day workshop for training of Islamic Teachers on how to prevent extremism for schools”, in collaboration with Community Initiative to Promote Peace (CIPP) and sponsored by Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation For Peace (COFP).
Speaking in an interview after the event, the Executive Director Muslim Peace Network in Nigeria (MPN), Imam Hussain Makanjuola, disclosed that there’s the need for inculcating peaceful coexistence by checkmating the schools curriculum and creating awareness for a sustainable development of peace among various communities across the nation.
He added that, one of the major reasons for them to organize the workshop is to ensure they sensitize the teachers of the Arabic schools to avoid extremism and its implications by training the teachers on peace building, because most of them feel they have the authority to preach or teach what they feels is right.
He said, “we as Muslim Peace Network have gone to so many schools, gone to various institutions and churches to make sure we’ve sensitize the teachers, headmasters and clerics about the importance of peace and to let them know what they are going to teach the children.
“There’s no other mechanism to be used to create peaceful coexistence among the society that will bring about peace, aside sensitization, training, Da’awa and creating awareness among us that will bring about peace between the Christians and Muslims.
“Government needs to be checkmating the activities and curriculum of every school because there’s the need for the authority to regulate and take over the responsibility by creating the curriculum to avoid the teaching of extremism to inculcate peace in the hearts of the children,” he said.
Imam Hussain Makanjuola, appealed to parents, stakeholders and traditional leaders to ensure they step up to responsibilities by checkmating the activities of the clerics and schools curriculum to avoid the implication of being victims of having an extremist teaching society.
