The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, has said the federal government is working on a policy that would curtail the number of children a mother could have.
She spoke on Tuesday at the 24th Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja, in response to a question.
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Noting that the country’s population had been identified as one of the great challenges confronting the successful implementation of the ERGP, Ahmed disclosed that the government was already engaging traditional rulers as well as other leaders across the country on the issue.
She explained that the government was thinking in the direction of limiting the number of children as way of addressing one of the “great challenges” in the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan of the Federal Government.
Ahmed said, “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.
“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.”
