Group Kicks Against Comprehensive Sexuality Education In Schools

An international organisation, the Centre for African Policy, Research and Advisory (CAFPRA), has opposed the introduction of comprehensive sexuality education in schools, describing it as the “greatest assault” on the health and innocence of children.

The organisation’s Executive Director, Dr Segun Adebayo, stated this during a news conference in Abuja on Thursday.

Adebayo expressed concern over what he described as the introduction of immoral sexual values to schoolchildren, alleging that such “ungodly values” were intended to defile and corrupt them.

“Minors are exposed to unimaginable sexual depravities such as heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, asexuality, etc, ” he said.

The executive director urged well-meaning Nigerians to unite in protecting children by rejecting comprehensive sexuality education.

He warned that failure to act could result in the country having a future generation of young adults he described as highly sexually debased.

Also speaking, the organisation’s Legal Adviser, Sonnie Ekwowusi, raised concerns over the use of what he termed euphemisms as a means of persuading the public to accept what he described as narratives of moral decadence.

Ekwowusi alleged that concepts including gender equality and sexual rights were being presented as part of an underlying agenda aimed at child defilement.

He specifically urged the National Assembly and other legislative bodies to reject what he described as attempts to persuade them to legalise comprehensive sexuality education.

Ekwowusi also criticised narratives around sexual and reproductive health rights, alleging that they were intended to promote abortion.

He advocated a return to African moral values, which he said would help raise disciplined and obedient children and preserve a tradition for which Africa is known.

According to him, Western countries were investing heavily in efforts to erode African moral values and dismantle existing school values, replacing them with what he described as immoral ones.