NGO Calls For Total Removal Of Sexuality Education In School Curriculum

NGO Calls For Total Removal Of Sexuality Education In School Curriculum

A non-governmental organization, Pen Publishers, has called on government at all levels and Ministry of Education to see to the total removal of sexuality education in school curriculum across the country.

The call is coming months after the Nigeria Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu ordered that the sexuality education be expunged from basic education curriculum across Nigeria.

Chief Executive Officer of Pen Publishers, Mrs. Haleemat Alli-Bankole stated that Comprehensive Sexuality Education is a Sexuality Education curriculum developed by UNESCO and partners for Worldwide use content and delivery endangers children.

Alli-Bankole spoke during a sensitisation programme on sex education for students across Oṣùn State in Osogbo yesterday.

She explained that the event was targeted at increasing the awareness about the harms of the comprehensive sexuality education in the school curriculum.

Mrs. Alli-Bankole said: “This awareness programme is targeted at increasing the awareness about the harms of the comprehensive sexuality education in our school curriculum.

“The Pen Publishers’ wishes to create awareness on its dangers in order to protect our vulnerable children from continued exposure to it by removing it from the school curriculum as directed recently by the Minister of Education”.

In her remarks, the Legal Consultant to the Foundation Africa Cultural Heritage, Mrs. Mary Ekemeize, stated that sexual education shouldn’t be part of curriculum for pupils in basic classes, noting that it expose them to immoral sex at tender age.

Ekemeize added that many textbooks teach the students on how to have sex which they are not ready for. 

She said: “Many textbooks and subjects in our schools today now teach students on how to have sex, something they are not to be exposed to at that age.  

“When you look at textbooks in junior secondary schools today, they are talking about abortion which is illegal in Nigeria. They are not presenting the dangers  to the children, they are rather seeing it as something normal.

“The government should replace sex education with some other subjects that will be of good to students. They can teach them on how to regulate emotions when they are angry. The government should see to the total removal of the subject from our curriculum “.