Religious crisis looms in Osun school

OSOGBO — Tension, yesterday, enveloped a
popular school in Osun State, the Baptist High
School, Iwo, as the students wore different dresses
that suited their religious inclination to school.
The students, thereby, defiled the state government
uniform specification recently introduced in all
public secondary schools in the state as part of the
schools reclassification programme.
Apart from the riotous outfits, the students also
sang different religious songs while on the
assembly for the morning devotion.
While the Christian students who wore white
garments sang Christian songs, the Muslim
students who appeared in veil sang Muslim songs.
Worried by the development, the school authority
hurriedly sent the students to their various
classrooms and informed the state Ministry of
Education of the development.
Reacting, the state Commissioner for Information
and Strategy, Mr Sunday Akere said government
was aware of the development and was making
efforts to bring sanity back to the system.
He said officials of the state Ministry of Education
have been drafted to the school to prevent further
breakdown of law and order.