Controversy As Nigeria’s Northern Lawmakers Kick Against Birth Control, Claim It’s Anti-Islam
A motion moved by a member of the House of Representatives, Babatunde Gabriel Kolawole, on Tuesday, November 24, titled, ‘Need for the federal government to curb population explosion in Nigeria,’ caused an uproar as Northern lawmakers opposed the motion, saying it was a direct attack on Islam.
Kolawole had requested that the house urge the Federal Government to create an effective policy to curb the alarming rate of population growth as well as educate Nigerians on the need for family planning through the National Orientation Agency (NOA).
He argued that this had become imperative judging by a report by a United States based Population Reference Bureau which projected that the country’s population will shoot up to 433 million in 2050, making Nigeria the third most populous in the world, only behind China and India.
He added that the failure of the National Population Commission (NPC) to get an accurate figure of the country’s population had put more pressure on the country’s infrastructure and finance, contributing significantly to the high unemployment rate, poverty and crime.
A lawmaker from Bauchi state, Sani Abdul, however, dismissed his argument and the motion in general as unnecessary and a waste of time.
The speaker, Yakubu Dogara disagreed with Abdul, noting that the motion was necessary as it highlighted the need to plan. Still, Abdul insisted Nigeria’s resources and landmass can handle any population explosion.
Other lawmakers, mostly from the north, also spoke against the motion, claiming population control is anti-Islam and a direct attack on their religious beliefs.
Another lawmaker, Zakare Mohammed, said though he was not against the motion, the country’s culture must be preserved.
Ruling on the motion, the speaker said the Committee on Justice, Population, Rules and Business should examine the motion and advise accordingly.
This is crazy! Religious what? Abeg how many of them have 10kids and above? Yeye people calling themselves law makers.
Mtchewwww all this Muslims are d problem if this nation most of this Muslims in d north can’t eat a healthy diet once a day begging on d street and turning their kids to street kid that are terrorist in dis country
They can’t gree nah as they like to born like rats. Everything is anti Islam Mtscheeeeeeewwww because they want to be marrying more than one woman rubbish people.
And they can’t kick against bombing their people on daily basis. Mtsheewwww…..Everything is anti Islam except killing people.
Abegi make them go siddon
Yeye people that’s why our security who has 4kids travelled to go n pregnant his wife again
Mtcheeeew stupidity
Their religion permits them to produce children they can’t cater for.If a child is well taken care of,he/she won’t strap explosives round his/her body and kill self n other innocent souls.It’s poverty and hunger as a result of population explosion that makes them easily fall prey to boko haram recruiters
Hnmmm
wat nonsense is dt na?how many kids do dos law makers hv
Na them sabi
Nawa.
al dese Muslims should b killed
Nawaooo….family planning will help reduce the population na, not just population but it will help solve unemployment issues as well…ths northerns/Muslim no dey try at all
They need more enlightenment
this their islam stuff don dey too much,dey even want islamic corpers to be wearing long hijab in camp
they need to broaden their thinking
It’s thinking like this that makes them the most uneducated part of the country with countless riff raffs becoming terrorists