By Sonny Ekwowusi
Last week, a group of pro-choice NGOs staged a protest against the Hon. Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu for directing the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) to expunge the current immoral sex education taught in Nigerian schools from the school curriculum.
Worried about the immoral content of sex education curriculum in Nigeria and the wrong method deployed in using it to corrupt impressionable secondary school and primary school pupils most of whom are in the age bracket of 5-14 years, the Hon. Minister had directed last week that the immoral sex education should be removed from the school curriculum and that the teaching of sex education should be left in the hands of parents who are the primary educators of their children and religious institutions which are the custodians of morals of young people.
Rather than sexualize and damage the character of our school
pupils with pernicious sex education, the Hon. Minister prefers that parents
and religious institutions should teach sex education in order to safeguard the
morals of our school pupils.
But the Hon. Minister’s directive has not gone down well with some
pro-choice NGOs. Last week they issued a statement stating, among other
things, that the Minister’s directive is a hindrance to progress in providing
school pupils and teenagers with factual information and skills on teen
safe-sex and reproductive health (otherwise known as abortion) that are
necessary for young people to make rational decisions about their bodies.
Also
faulting the Hon. Minister on the said directive, a wife of a former State
Governor, who over the years has gained notoriety as a child safe-sex radical
activist, has written a letter to the Hon. Minister stating, inter alia, that
the Nigerian government should embrace the Comprehensive Sexuality Education
(CSE) of the notorious pro-abortion foreign NGO called the United Nations
Population Funds (UNFPA).
The government should just ignore the protesting pro-choice NGOs
and the wife of the former State Governor. Under the so-called CSE which
the wife of the ex-State Governor is prescribing to the government (I have a
copy of it right in front of me as I scribble this), school pupils in open
classrooms are required to touch each other’s genital saying: “I like
you”.
The pupils are also expected to touch each other’s private parts
and find out the differences in their respective private parts. For years now I
have been following the corruption and sexualization of Nigerian kids by the
UNFPA.
Under the youth peer sexuality education Training Guide/Toolkit,
funded by the UNFPA and used in many public secondary schools in Nigeria,
(which I also have in front of me at the moment), the students are told to
share with other students with whom they feel more comfortable things like:
“Your sexual fantasies (fantasies), “Your feelings about oral sex (oral)”,
“Whether you enjoy erotic material (X), “Whether you have fantasized about a homosexual
relationship (gay-fan),” “Whether you have had a homosexual relationship
(gay-exp)”.
On
page 75 of the Guide, there is a condom relay race activity involving boys and
girls. It instructs the peer leader to “Ask two volunteers (participants or
co-facilitators) to hold the two penis models” and then to invite two teams to
race to put the condoms on the models.
I remember that in 2014 the same UNFPA organized what it dubbed the third
Family Planning Pre-Conference which was held at the Reiz Continental Hotel,
Abuja. At that Conference, the UNFPA launched a condom-safe-sex campaign
entitled, “No Hoodie No Honey”. This campaign was widely reported in the
Nigerian media. The campaign was also posted on Twitter, Facebook and on other
social media.
The campaign was targeted at young Nigerian girls in the age
bracket of 14-18. The campaign was aimed at supplying condoms and
contraceptives to these young Nigerian girls and convincing them that “safe
sex” is their right and therefore they shouldn’t be ashamed to practice “safe
sex” even if the different Nigerian cultures and religions teach otherwise.
For example, one of the inscriptions on the No Hoodie No Honey
roll-up stand posted on Twitter read: “Lets push for easy access to the female
condom and that a woman may buy condoms without being shamed” First: the
campaign was tainted by fraud and deception.
While
scientific evidence consistently shows that condoms, which contain
naturally-occurring holes, do not protect their user against infections and
against HIV and rarely protect against unwanted pregnancy, the UNFPA
fraudulently masquerades about the cities of Nigeria and gives the Nigerian
youths the false hope that condoms protect from any misdeed.
It beats the imagination that the UNFPA and others are corrupting
Nigerian children with immoral CSE under the watch of the government. The
American College of Pediatricians has said that CSE is one of the greatest
assaults on the health and innocence of children because, unlike traditional
sexuality education, CSE highly and explicitly promotes sexual promiscuity and
high-risk sexual behaviours among children and teenagers.
CSE programs have an almost obsessive focus on teaching children
how to obtain sexual pleasure in various ways. (Please visit this site
https://youtu.be/6yTvdCHgEHQ) and view the 11 minutes video to see evidence of
the harmful elements of CSE. The video provides just 15 harmful elements
typically found in CSE curricula.
Since each of these 15 harmful elements has the potential of
causing long-term negative effects on the health and well-being of children,
having even one of these elements should be reason enough to disqualify a CSE
program from being taught to children in our schools. CSE harms children in the
following ways and therefore should be banned in our schools.
Sexualizes
children; teaches children to consent to sex; normalizes anal and oral sex:
promotes homosexual/bisexual behaviour; promotes sexual pleasure; promotes solo
and/or mutual masturbation; promotes condom use in inappropriate ways; promotes
early sexual autonomy; fails to establish abstinence as the expected standard;
promotes transgender ideology; promotes contraception and abortion to children;
promotes peer-to-peer sex education or sexual rights advocacy; undermines
traditional values and beliefs; undermines parents or parental rights; refers
children to harmful resources. These are not invented by me. Please visit:
www.waronchildren.org and www.investigateippf.org)
Aside from the CSE, many textbooks used in Nigerian schools have
been corrupted too with lewd matters. You may be well aware that in the last
twenty years or so, classical English literature books and novels such as
Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Weep Not Child, Things Fall Apart, Zambia Shall be
Free, The Man Died, African Child, Akin the Drummer Boy, Mine Boy, The gods are
not to blame and so forth have been removed from our school curricula and
replaced with sex-related local English literature books containing lewd
subject-matters to give the unsuspecting young school pupils the wrong
impression that self-control is unnecessary and that casual sex makes them feel
good; that they should engage in casual sex before marriage; that ‘safe sex’ is
what to aim for in life provided that they don’t get pregnant. And if they do
get pregnant they should procure an abortion as soon as possible. It is
unfortunate that we now live in a highly-sexualized society. And one of the
negative consequences of this is the sexualisation of primary and secondary
school pupils.
At
every turn — TV, music, movies, sex education in schools — pre-teens, teens,
school pupils and teenagers are daily bombarded with the tragically misguided
message borrowed from abroad that safe sex in all deviant forms, LGBT1+, gay
marriage, transgenderism, and bestiality are good for them and that the
resultant outcome holds no dangers for them.
About 16 years ago, an NGO called the Concerned Mothers
Association, Lagos, ace broadcaster Adesuwa Onyenokwe and others brought a
lawsuit against the Lagos State government at the Federal High Court, Lagos
over the sexualization of the Integrated Science curriculum to include the
techniques of kissing, masturbation, breast enlargement, how to do abortion,
how girls can sterilize themselves and be having sex without becoming pregnant
and so forth. I was one of the counsels for the plaintiffs in that suit.
The lead counsel in the suit was Mrs Sylvia Sinaba SAN (of blessed
memory). I remember that when the matter was called in court, the judge, who
happened to be a female, was completely stunned by the sexualized issues
pleaded by the plaintiffs in their Statement of Claim. In her shock, she first
took up the Statement of Claim, held it up momentarily in her right hand and queried,
“What is this?”. “My Lord, these are what they are now teaching them in
schools”, responded Mrs Sylvia Sinaba SAN. Silence enveloped the
courtroom.
The judge was dumbfounded. Anyway, to cut the long story short, the matter was amicably resolved out of court. In the spirit of an amicable settlement, the Lagos State government at that time yanked off the offensive portion of the Integrated Science curriculum although I suspect that by now it has been brought back into the curriculum.
Between from March 27 to 29 2017, I
attended a Conference which took place at the Nigerian Institute of
International Affairs, Victoria Island, Lagos. One of the Speakers at that
Conference was Ahmed Akanbi, a Muslim parent and a Lagos-based legal practitioner.
Midway in his presentation, Ahmed did something which shocked most of the
Conference attendees.
He
carefully dipped his hands into his handbag and brought out two English
literature books containing some lewd subject-matters and showed them to the
audience. He told us that the two books were recommended books for primary six
pupils in the primary school attended by his daughter. The title of the first
book authored by Oyekunle Oyedeji is: Tears Of A Bride, while the second book
written by Queen O. Okweshine bears the title: Precious Child. According
to Ahmed, his 9-year old daughter in Primary 6 came back home from school one
day and engaged him in a conversation that bothered on some sex experiences.
At first, Ahmed was utterly stunned that his 9 year old daughter
was conversant with sex matters. But after he had regained his composure he
asked his daughter where she learned about those sex experiences. It was then
that his daughter opened her mouth and narrated to him how their school teacher
has been using the aforesaid two books to teach them how to practice “safe sex”
and how to gain sexual pleasure. Ahmed read to the hearing of the participants
some sexy portions of the two books. The participants rose to their feet in
utter shock.
Seven years ago, some Lagos-based NGOs also filed a law suit at
the Federal High Court, Lagos against the Federal Ministry of Education and
others over the smearing of the following textbooks used in many secondary
schools in Nigeria – New School Chemistry for Senior Secondary
Schools By: Osei Yaw Ababio; Revised by: L. E.S Akpanisi
Herbert Igwe ; Modern Biology for Senior Secondary School By: Sarojini
T. Ramalingam, revised by Lucy I Akunwa and J.BC Obidiwe and The
New School Physics for Senior Secondary By: M. W Anyakoha PhD – with
the following watermark inscriptions: “I know that My Mother is a harlot and
that my Father is a Kidnapper”, “I am a son/daughter of a Harlot and
kidnapper”, “I confess that my Family is bad, Evil, and a Disgrace to the
Nation”, “My Parents Taught me how to love and smoke Indian Hemp, to kill and
practice illegal things”. I was the leading counsel for the plaintiffs in the
suit. Guess what happened thereafter? The publishers of the lewd textbooks came
all the way from Onitsha to our law firm in Lagos to beg for amicable
settlement of the matter out of court.
Even many English, Mathematics and Social Science textbooks used
in many Nigerian secondary schools have been corrupted to include lewd matters
in order to sexualize the young students. For instance, in Mathematics, a
typical Maths question for primary school pupils is: “20 condoms + 5 condoms - 2
condoms equals…”.
At
the moment in my little office, I have the latest lewd-textbooks or sexualized
textbooks used in corrupting our secondary school pupils in Nigeria. They
include: Basic science Junior Secondary School Razat
Publishers, 2018 edition, (for JSS3).
Open
pages 78 – 83 to see the harmful contents of the book – lesson on teenage
pregnancy, types of abortions students can do, myths & facts about
pregnancy, indoctrination of the pupils on terminology of unsafe & safe
abortion, six ways to prevent pregnancy with contraceptives, how to enjoy ‘safe
sex’ without pregnancy: false information on four types of abstinence of which
none is the actual definition of abstinence to be promoted among adolescents.
Active Basic
Science, 2014 edition By Tola Anjorin, Okechukwu Okolo, Philias Yara,
Bamidele Mutiu, Fatima Koki, Lydia Gbagu: See Pages 31- 34. Cry
for Justice By Ademola Adefila; See Pages 60-61, 64-65, read the
description of having sex and sexual experience. Stigma By Samson O
Shobayo, See the pages. The book encourages sexual relationship with HIV
patients; kissing. Basic Science & Technology for Junior Secondary School 1, 2
and 3: By W.K Hamzat, S. Bakare: See Pages 29- 47 Page 48-52 Page 64 Pages 67-
73 and Pages 86 of the three books which promote abortion, LGTB, masturbation
and safe-sex with condoms.
New Concept
English for Senior Secondary Schools for SSS2, Revised edition (2018
edition) by J Eyisi, A Adekunle, T Adepolu, F Ademola Adeoye, Q Adams
and, J Eto, See Pages 103- 104 that contain obscene and vulgar expressions such
as : “small men always thinking small and acting small ”and these vulgar
words:. “He swore by the grey hairs of his head and his penis…even by the cunt
of his own mother”.
It is high time Nigerian parents woke up to their parental
responsibilities. Parents are the primary educators of their children. They
cannot shirk this responsibility under the excuse that they are working hard to
eke out a living. Most social vices in Nigeria today are caused by failed
parenting. We are in trouble in Nigeria. Failed parenting engenders failed
political leadership. This is regrettable.
The family institution, unarguably, is indeed the fundamental unit
of society. The family is the natural context in which children imbibe those cherished
values which form the superstructures for the building of our national ethos.
Therefore parents should rediscover themselves and reinvigorate their
respective families to enable them to parent their own children to be
responsible citizens. Our civilization is imperiled when families are
imperiled.
*Ekwowusi is a commentator on public issues
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