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The Muslim Rights Concern, MIRIC, has counseled the Kano State Government for prohibiting some textbooks in nursery, main and secondary schools as a consequence of dangerous and sexually express contents.

MURIC Chairman in Kano, Hassan Indabawa, in an announcement stated the transfer by the federal government to take away some lewd and pernicious educating supplies from the curriculum of fundamental schools was commendable.

He stated the choice of the Kano authorities, underneath the management of Gov. Abba Yusuf got here on the proper time.

“Therefore, all parents, educationists, learners and advocates must embrace and support the initiative so as to tame the alarming rise of immorality amongst the youths in the state,” he stated.

Mr Indabawa additional stated that MIRIC was one of many entrance line advocates for the removing of all obscene educating aids from the nation’s instructional system.

“MURIC rejoice and commend the government of Kano for doing the needful by prohibiting the use of some selected teaching materials found to contain sexually explicit contents.

“Nigerians are aware that in the last twenty years, classical English literature books and novels such as Macbeth, Merchant of Venice, Things Fall Apart among others, have been removed from our school curricula.

“They have been replaced with sex-related local English literature and other science books containing lewd and pernicious matters to give the unsuspecting young school pupils the wrong impression that self-control is unnecessary.

“As we may equally be aware, one of the negative consequences of this is the sexualisation of primary and secondary school pupils,” he stated.

He added that the prohibition of using these offensive textual content books have to be backed by applicable laws to supply authorized framework for sanctioning any erring college authority for efficient implementation of the federal government’s directive.

“The Office of the Special Advisor on Private and Voluntary Institutions and Kano Educational Resource Department (KERD) must be well-equipped to ensure strict compliance.

“We also call on other state governments to emulate Kano State by reviewing and removing all lewd and pernicious teaching materials from their various basic education curriculum,” he stated.

The Kano authorities on Thursday, stated it has banned using some textbooks throughout nursery, main and secondary schools in the state, as a consequence of dangerous and sexually express contents.

This is contained in an announcement issued by Hamisu Ibrahim, the director of planning Research and Statistics workplace of the Special Adviser on Private and Voluntary Institutions in Kano.

“The Kano state government wishes to notify operators of both private and voluntary schools in the state that the under-listed books are prohibited for instruction use in our Nursery, Primary and Secondary Schools due to observed inclusion of inappropriate and sexually explicit content that is harmful to the morale of young students” the federal government stated.
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