The Nigerian government on Wednesday has denied it has plans of placing a two-children per family limit on its citizens.
Nigeria’s finance minister, Zainab Ahmed, at the 2018 Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja, noted that the Federal government was planning a birth control policy to check the prevalent poverty and unemployment in the country.
Barely twenty-four hours after the statement was made, the finance minister said she was misinterpreted.
“The federal government has been engaging critical stakeholders like traditional and religious leaders to advise their members on child spacing,” Ahmed, Nigeria’s finance minister tweeted.
“We never said we are placing a cap on childbirth.”
The minister insisted that she only said the government was seeking religious and traditional leaders support to enlighten the public on child spacing.
“Exponential growth was identified as a challenge in the ERGP. We never said the Federal Government will place a cap on the number of childbirths, the government has been engaging traditional and religious leaders to educate their members on child spacing so they have the numbers we can adequately manage,” Ahmed said.
From Guardian.ng
Set of confused leaders
ReplyDeleteMc pinky
They haven't seen better things to implement, it's this one....mtschew
ReplyDeleteAll those their emirs have called her to order. Lol
ReplyDeleteMany of them that are still planning how to take 16yr old virgins as wives that will give them plenty children.
Rich people have one or two... always poor people complaining. No other achievements I guess
ReplyDeleteI guess male celebs are also poor people. Rich people like Igbenedion who have plenty kids are also poor people. Even the whites you people try to emulate breed like rabbits. Don't allow mainstream media fool you. Most of them have 6 kids. Even the kings with a whole village of children nko? Are they poor?
DeleteOne thing is alot of poor people are not educated. They don't know how to protect themselves or use contraceptive. Most poor people don't want to have more than 2kids but they lack education. Empower them and watch birth rates decrease.
About time.
ReplyDeletePeople need to stop breeding like rodents.
It's high time sky rocketing nig population is looked into. Given d delapidated infrastructure every1 is available to. D reassure is too much.How can only 1 person be allowed a min of 16 children, a civil servant for tht matter and expect them not to steal
ReplyDeleteThat development for better ooooo..... pple bearing children dey cannot cater for
ReplyDelete