Mandera County Governor Ali Roba has raised an alarm over the Muslim teachers of the religious-based education popularly known as Madrassa.
According to the governor, the information backgrounds of the teachers must be first probed before they are allowed to teach.
Religious education is a communal fundamental that has beaten time throughout generations.
The Islamic religion is known for its strictness in passing on its religious beliefs through the religious teachers known as Sheikhs.
Speaking in Garissa on Friday when the National Council for Nomadic Education in Kenya (NACONEK) organised a stakeholders meeting to discuss the formalization of the Madrassa education, Mandera County Governor Ali Roba said that it was important to have the full details of a sheikh entrusted with the teaching of the Quran.
“The knowledge received by the Muslim children is handed down to them by their religious teachers. Therefore, if a sheikh is crooked, definitely the children will have wrong information. That is where wrong political and religious ideological emanates from,” said Roba.
According to governor Roba, “some Sheikhs are known to mislead young learners by teaching them violent extremism by taking advantage on the young brain.” said the Governor.
Roba appealed to religious leaders entrusted with interpreting the Quran to not take advantage of the great trust bestowed upon them by the Muslim community to mislead them with the wrong information and ideologies such as radicalization.
I have already recruited 150 madrassa teachers into ECD in a way aimed at integrating the two studies using the same set of teachers,” he said.