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Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has described as evil, the removal of history as a subject taught in secondary and primary school curriculum by the Federal Government.
The governor who stated this in Makurdi, said, Benue State will legislate a solution for the teaching of History even if it is for internal consumption of knowledge about how the people of Benue came to occupy what is today called Benue.
“Removing history from our curriculum is an evil agenda. So, in our schools here even if we do it and it is not accepted for examinations to be conducted at the level of SSCE, let’s do Mock Exams, this will be within us. Because we must know our history, we must know how we came here.
We must know when we sojourned here and know people that came to join us. We must know what happened in 1800. All these are very important. If we don’t do it, we have failed as a generation and posterity will not forgive us,” Ortom said.
The removal of history studies from primary and secondary schools curriculum became effective from the 2009/2010 academic session with the Federal Government launching a new curriculum known as the New Basic Education Curriculum for primary and junior secondary schools.
The decision was however met with criticism with many describing the reasons as mere excuses.
Following the criticisms, in 2016, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, announced that the Federal Government is taking steps to restore history as a subject in primary and secondary schools’ curriculum.
The governor is very correct,a river that forget it’s source may soon dry that is 1 of the importance of history.In addition history will enable us to understand past events with which we may predict of how future will be like.