During the inauguration of Chairman and Commissioners of the National Population Commission (NPC) at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, President Good-luck Jonathan mentioned that a bill may soon be sponsored at the National Assembly which will seek to ensure birth control in the country.
However, Nigerians are very religious people and some religion frown on birth control and the President knows he will face some resistance but warns Nigerians that Nigerians should not oppose it on religious grounds as it is for the good of call.
Here is what he said...“For us to plan properly, we must manage our population, but it is extremely sensitive, we are extremely religious people, either you are a Christian or Moslem and even traditionalists believe that children are God’s gifts to man, so it is difficult for you to tell any Nigerian to limit the number of their children because they are gifts of God”.
“Sometimes you get to somebody’s house living in a well furnished duplex. The husband and wife there may have two, three four children. The maiguard guarding them have nine children. That is the scenario you have. That means there is a segment of the population that knows that you must get a number that you can manage but the other segment of the population don’t”.
Therefore, the president has assured that the law will be preceded by a period of intensive sensitization of the public on the advantages of birth control.
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