The Association for the Advancement of Family Planning in Nigeria has said that family planning is the only solution to control population and poverty in Nigeria
This was said by the association chairman Dr Ejike Oji on Monday in Abuja during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria
Oji urged Nigerians to embrace family planning for quality and standard living in all ramifications.
“Nigeria, at the moment, is one of the countries with multidimensional poverty.
“This means that a lot of homes in the country lack access to not just money but quality healthcare, food, water, education etc.,” he said.
The medical practitioner expressed hope and capability of family planning in reducing population and multidimensional poverty.
According to him, parents needs to plan well for childbearing and spacing, this will allow them to provide basic resources fir themselves and their children
Oji blamed the increase in population which led to insurgency and insecurity on a lack of proper family planning, said children born without good planning were vulnerable to becoming miscreants.
He alleged that many of the terrorists or insurgents in the country were children born without planning.
He called on government at all levels to produce policies that would encourage family planning locally and nationally.
The National Multidimensional Poverty Index by the National Bureau of Statistics says 133 million Nigerians, representing over 60 per cent of the country’s population, are multi-dimensionally poor.
It says they are deprived of no fewer than one essential survival needs, which include good health, good living standards, basic education and gainful employment.
NAN