Zainab Ahmed, minister of
finance, says the federal government is working on a policy that will limit the
number of children a woman can give birth to.
Speaking on Tuesday at the
ongoing Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja, Ahmed said the federal government
has identified population as one of the challenges of successfully implementing
the Economic Growth and Recovery Plan (ERGP).
“We have been engaging traditional
rulers and other leaders. Specifically, we have found out that to be able to
address one of the great challenges that we identified in the ERGP, which is
the growth in our population, we need to engage these institutions,” she said.
“And we hope that with their
support, we will get to a point where we can come out with the policy that
limits the number of children that a mother can have because that is important
for sustaining our growth.
“The ERGP is not a new plan, it’s
a plan that reviewed what needs assessment, what was in the vision 2020, what
is in existing sector plans so because we have taken those plans and used them,
the next administration will continue them, which government will not want to
continue to improve the infrastructure? What we have in the ERGP are things
that any government must do.”
According to projections by the
United Nations, Nigeria’s population will exceed 300 million by 2050.
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