The Chairman, Association for the Advancement of Family Planning in Nigeria, Dr Ejike Oji, on Monday said that family planning is the solution to the poverty ravaging Nigeria.
Oji made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
According to him, when parents plan well for childbearing and spacing, they will at least provide basic resources to their children and themselves.
Oji, who blamed the increase in insurgency and insecurity on a lack of 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.
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Oji further called on government at all levels to produce policies that would encourage family planning locally and nationally.
“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 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.
The statistics revealed that the 60% are deprived of no fewer than one essential survival needs, which include good health, good living standards, basic education and gainful employment.
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