Anambra indigenes have been urged to deploy the use of family planning to manage the number of children they bear, in line with their income.
DAILY POST correspondent who spoke with a number of indigenes of the state to mark this year’s world population day reports that most of the people called for proper family planning, citing the harsh economic situation of the country.
State Director of National Population Commission(NPC) in Anambra, Mr Joachin Ulasi who read a text of the chairman of the commission, Chief Eze Duruiheoma in a press conference in Awka said family planning was a personal decision, which is not just about saving lives but empowering people and developing nations.
The director stated that this year’s world population day with the theme: family planning, birth spacing: empowering people, developing nations is targeted at using family planing to ensure quality population in the country.
Chief Godwin Ezeemo, an industrialist who spoke with DAILY POST said, “As we commemorate World Population Day today, I enjoin Anambra people to live more consciously. They should ensure that they make babies within their economic capacity so that they do not become burdens to them and the society at large.”
Another respondent, Mrs Virginia Uzochukwu, a staff nurse with Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Teaching Hospital who was speaking to pregnant women during antenatal at the hospital urged them to always be open to discussion with their spouses, saying that women usually bear the consequences of an over-populated family.
“Populating the world is a mandate given unto man by God, but when you concentrate on carrying out that order, without adequate plans to train them, you find out you are no longer carrying out that order.
“Its a good thing that world population day fell on a day when we usually have our antenatal, so we are using this opportunity to teach them about family planning,” she said.
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