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Osun: Hijab controversies and the accompanying brouhaha. -By Sunday O. Oladepo

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To begin with, I personally think there is no cause for CAN reacting with the measures it did. The sudden adoption of wearing choir ropes and religious attires to school is alien and not cultural to Christian norms. Morality in the Christian context is evaluated on both internal and external features. Modesty, particularly in dressing is not synonymous to wearing certain dresses. But, wearing dresses that basically do not offend morality and religious values. Thus, it is unnecessary on the part of CAN to react by encouraging students to wear irregular church regalias to schools.

That being said, it saddens one to see the religious folks rigmaroling on hijab-adoption controversy. A policy that is arguably less beneficial to the socio-economic wellness of the state. The same policy is causing rowdiness in the educational atomospehere of the state. This, of course, is an avoidable embroilemnt. To really be frank, a state that is renowed for indebtedness needs more of economic reforms than the pettines of religious dressings.

At a perilous time like this, the government and religious folks are expected to be more concerned with life-impacting policies that would be beneficial to all, rather than controversial policies that could tear the state religiously apart.
Sunday O. Oladepo [JATTS] writes from Osogbo in Osun State. Twitter: ‎@sundayooladepo
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