By Haroon Balogun
NACOMYO calls for creation of Ministry of Religious Affairs National Council of Muslim Youth Organizations NACOMYO has advocated for the establishment of Ministry of Religious Affairs or Agency that will regulate and monitor the activities of religious preachers in the country, stating that licensing of religious preachers in the country will check their excesses and an an antidote to hate preachings and inflammatory utterances that tend to undermine the fragile peace in the country.
While noting that such agency exists in certain parts of the country, it stressed the need to empower and strengthen them to enable them carry out such function, and towards making the preachers to be refined, disciplined and apply decorum in calling people to the way of God.
The appeal is coming on the heels of hate preaching and inciting statements credited to a prominent clergy in the country and who is under investigation.
NACOMYO noted that religion is taking a new trend, capable of causing Nigerians to take up arms against themselves. It called on government to rise to the occasion and take proactive initiatives at stemming the tide and averting religious crises in the overall interest of nationhood.
It renewed its call for the resuscitation of Nigerian-Inter Religious Council (NIREC) and with more vigour as a means to checking religious bigotry, intolerance and to ensuring interfaith cooperation and collaboration for development.
NACOMYO also emphasized the need for caution and restraint on the part of stakeholders and especially those at the helm of affairs,asking them to eschew sentiments and be ‘part of the solution’ rather than being ‘part of the problem’.
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