Sonnie Ekwowusi
16 October 2007
Lagos — From 21st-25th October, 2007, the Nigeria Model United Nations Society (NigMUNS), in collaboration with her international Advisory Committee and agencies, shall be organizing the 3rd Nigerian International Secondary Schools Model United Nations Conference (NISSMUN 2007) at the International Conference Centre, Abuja .
The theme of this year's conference is Culture and Religion in Reproductive Health and Rights. Some young students of some secondary schools are even threatening to attend. Regrettably, there are even NISSMUN Clubs in some Nigerian secondary schools.
NISSMUN 2007, simply, is another well-orchestrated platform to corrupt the unwary and unsuspecting students and young people with permissive Western lifestyle of so-called child surgical abortion, "safe-sex", homosexuality, sterilization, breast enlargement, child pornography, eroticism, child contraceptives and the other nonsense. So, don't be deceived. Understand what is happening. You see, promoters of "safe sex", child abortion and child contraceptives in Nigeria complain that Nigerian cultural and religious beliefs are great obstacles to the achievement of their immoral mission in Nigeria . Therefore, they want to corrupt our religious and cultural values in order to have a lot of leeway to market their bad products in Nigeria . For example, at the 2003 Reproductive Rights Conference in Abuja , Ms Joy Ezeilo canvassed that the teaching of abortion and contraceptives should be integrated into the school curricula in Nigeria . It was at the same Conference that Professor Rebecca J. Cook, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto , shocked the audience when she stood up and started castigating Nigerian religious and cultural values, saying that they were not only "conservative", but obstacles to the liberation of women to achieve their reproductive purposes, that is, enjoying sexual relationships without pregnancy.
Certainly, the on-going diabolic campaigns to corrupt our religious and cultural values stem from the resolutions at the different Reproductive Rights Conferences. Not only are they trying to brainwash the adherents of different religions in Nigeria , they want to get them to abandon their traditional beliefs and embrace the immoral Western lifestyle of safe sex, homosexuality, pornography and abortion. For example, ipas, a notorious abortion-organization, has been traversing Northern Nigeria and confusing Muslim women that abortion is compatible with the teaching of Prophet Mohammed and Islam. Any wonder the Sultan of Sokoto has warned Muslim lawmakers to stay clear of CEDAW capable of destroying their faith. Perceiving the Catholic Church as their No. 1 enemy, abortionists are now using some well-known, but highly ill-informed Catholics to spread their immoral ideas in schools. There is the story of a Professor of Medicine in Benin , a well-known abortionist, who now poses as a member of the Catholic Church in Benin . A month ago or so, some men and women who posed as reverend fathers and sisters were found in some Catholic schools in Abuja showing pornographic films to young school pupils under the cover of adolescent reproductive right. (Cardinal Anthony Okogie must hear this)
Last year Senator Daisy Ehanire-Danjuma sponsored an abortion bill at the National Assembly under the euphemistic phrase: reproductive rights. Upon protest, she argued that reproductive rights were not synonymous with abortion rights. But pro-life lawyers and pro-life NGOs faulted her argument. At the end, her abortion bill was dismissed for lack of merit. Recently, Professor Osato Giwa-Osagie of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital said that, with the advancement in assisted Reproductive technologies, men could become pregnant and have babies like women. On learning this, a friend simply held his head with his two hands and exclaimed: alu (abomination in Igbo). I challenge Prof., Giwa-Osagie to first show the light by becoming pregnant. That is only way we can take him serious.
Students, young boys and young girls are their targets. They want the Nigerian young to get into a promiscuous lifestyle early in life before they reach the age of maturity. That is why you hear all sorts of nonsense about adolescent reproductive rights in schools, radio and on TV. Enraged by this, some concerned mothers stormed the Federal High Court, Lagos last two years or so to stop the teaching of the techniques of masturbation, breast enlargement, homosexuality, safe-sex, kissing, caressing etc to JSS1-111 pupils in public schools in Lagos.
NISSMUN 2007 is the same sad story: the same tragedy of trying to corrupt religion and culture with a view to corrupting school children with abortion ideas. At NISSMUN 2007, they will try to brainwash the young students about their religion and culture. Using sophisticated hyperbole, euphemism and doggy sweet words, they will tell the students to disregard any religious creed that poses as obstacle to the enjoyment of sexual pleasure. They will tell them that certain religious and cultural beliefs are myths; that religion is a personal thing and should not be imposed on others; that morality is a relative thing; that culture is dynamic and that any Nigerian culture which prohibits juvenile abortion (adolescent sexual right) is an archaic culture which must be jettisoned; that every girl has a right to a safe and pleasurable sex life and abortion life, and any religion that forbids that violates her reproductive right.
So, you can see the big mess. Culture is the livewire of a people. In fact a people without culture are a people without life, a people without identity, a disfigured people. Researches have shown that healthy religion, all over the world, promotes healthy family, healthy living, and leads to an increase in income and productivity. Now some strange human beings are masquerading about brainwashing students to abandon the culture and religion of their parents. This, for me, is unacceptable. I repeat: this is unacceptable. Parents must call these strange human beings to order. Africa is for Africans. Every society must grow with its culture and values. We have our values in Nigeria . The West cannot be spoon feeding us with its permissive lifestyle. Nobody can give what he/she doesn't have. If the West is imperiled today by sexual promiscuity, it cannot be importing the same bad thing to Nigeria .
Sad to say, the United Nations, which was founded in 1945 essentially for the promotion of world peace and security, has been promoting many bad things in Africa . Apart from NISSMUN, notable United Nations agencies in Nigeria like WHO, UNIFEM, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNDP promote child abortion, child contraceptives, sterilization of women, "safe-sex" etc in Nigeria. UNICEF, in particular, lures youth corpers into a sexual promiscuous lifestyle by distributing condoms to them at NYSC orientation camps. What UNICEF cannot do in any European country, it is freely doing in Nigeria and getting away with it. What this tells you is that it is not everything that bears the tag of the United Nations that is good.
Poor lads! Poor students! Was it not Professor Wole Soyinka who once said that the Nigerian youths are a wasted generation? Somehow, events happening in our country in recent years continue to prove Prof., Soyinka right. No matter how you look at it, the future of the Nigerian young is bleak. The Nigerian student, in particular, is an endangered specie. There are so many bad things carpeting him, to decapitate him, to destroy him. First, his parents are so poor that they may not afford to send him to school. If indeed they manage, the learning environment in which he finds himself is infested with corruption, secret cult activities, bloody gangsterism etc. In the secondary school, he meets NISSMUN. If he is lucky to be admitted into the University, he may not graduate in time due to unending strikes and academic turmoil. If he manages to graduate, he meets UNICEF at the NYSC orientation camp. After NYSC, he meets unemployment. After unemployment, he meets a country full of hard life and frustration. On TV, he meets the Big Brother Africa Reality show. So contrary to popular perception, the Nigerian youth is not a leader of tomorrow. He is waylaid, corrupted, buffeted, and harassed from all sides. A dirge for the Nigerian youth.
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Honestly writing I feel very ashamed and sorry for the individual that wrote this senseless article.this person did not attend the wonderfuly organised missmun 2007 and has completely made a fool of himself by predicting what he felt we would be enlightened upon,and not knowing what.He has no substantial evidence to accuse nissmun 2007 of what he wrote in his article.i attended the conference and i am very happy i did as it has made me a better person in all feilds of life.the theme of the conference was culture and religion in reproductive health and rights.where we were enlightened on how we could use culture and to control various vices in our society, like s.t.d.s,unwanted pregnancies,abortion activities, family planning e.t.c so i dont see the reason why the writer of this article was exhibiting his ignorance,so all students and educationists intrested in taking the nigerian society to the next level should not be decieved by this backward and pessimistic writer who has no vision.
It is sooo unreasonable and catastrophic to speak before thinking or gaining experience.Even as a nigerian youth,i have learnt that.NISSMUN conference is in no way guilty of your accusations.You should give it a trial so that you can withdraw you speech because it is not too late.And as for the poor nigerian lad as you referred to,you can make a change and that is 'if you believe'.So why dont you gain yourself this happiness by doing what people think is impossible.THANKS
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