Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, who spoke during the inauguration of a N750m school built by the Osun State Government in Ejigbo on Monday, frowned at the situation where pupils wear uniforms depicting their religious affiliations to schools across the country. Soyinka expressed happiness at the honour done him by Governor Rauf Aregesola by naming the school after him, he warned against diving the pupils along religious lines by allowing them to wear uniforms that typified their religious affiliations. In his words:
“One of the ways we can reduce this fatalistic sense of holiness is to reduce the element of difference. I wish to implore that we do not distinguish our children by their religions.”
Soyinka, however, commended the governor for what he had done to improve the standard of education in Osun state.