Reps Ask FG To Prohibit Famous Children Textbook
Queen Primer.
The House of Representatives has requested the federal government and other sub-country wide governments to ban the usage of a popular youngsters textbook, “Queen Primer” in schools throughout Nigeria.
He stated, “Queen Primer’ subtly introduces phrases like ‘homosexual’, ‘eros’, and many others, that communize sexual perversion and immoral behaviours, as a consequence exposing innocent youngsters to phrases inappropriate for their age, which is illegal, unethical, particularly immoral and antithetical to baby upbringing.”
The lawmaker said the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) has the statutory responsibility to vet instructional materials.
Mr Gumi stated there is a “need to instil and guard moral values in youngsters and society at large with the aid of resisting the use of educational substances that teach or sell any shape of alien behaviour which violates the laws and ethical values in all educational institutions.”
Speaking in support of the motion, Bello El-Rufai (APC, Kaduna) stated he needed to withdraw his daughter from a primary school in Abuja for the usage of the book.
Mr El-Rufai, who claimed to talk for the youngsters, said there is a subtle try to “catch young people” via the books.
I will get personal and inform you that I moved my daughter from a school , whose name I will not mention for obvious motives, because they use this book.
“I studied in America for a long term, and one factor that saved me grounded is due to our culture. When we were there, we respected their way of life and their methods. The best factor we say is when you are right here, you do the same,” Mr El-Rufai stated.
The Deputy Speaker, Ben Kalu, who presided over the plenary session, in his contribution, said the parliament has a obligation to defend Nigerians and future generations.
“As an arm of government, we owe this nation this protection, in particular this coming generation,” Mr Kalu said.
In his contribution, Isaka Ibrahim (APC, Ogun), blamed the moral decadence going through the nation on the taken of schools from the missionaries.
We started missing it, when schools was seized from the missionary. Moral decadence is at the excessive side and needs urgent intervention, he stated.
Following the controversy, the House resolved to induce federal, state and local governments region in total ban on the production, importation and use of any academic material that contains such words that teach or sell Lesbianism, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) in faculties at some point in Nigeria.
It also advised the Federal Ministry of Education, the Nigeria Educational Research and Development Council and the Education Research Council (ERC) to carefully vet and censor the contents of educational materials used in Nursery and Primary faculties inside Nigeria and make sure that they're suitable and with out any connotation of pervasive tradition.
The House mandated the Committee on Basic Education to make sure compliance.
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