President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday hinted that the Federal Government plans to come up with a law that will control the number the number of children to be produced by each family in the country. He gave this hint during the inuguration of the new chairman of National Population Commission yesterday, in his words, 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”.
The President further stated that “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 guiding 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”.
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