The president of Tanzanian, John Magufili has got the internet buzzing with varied views from internet users after he said those who resort to family owing to reasons best known to them are merely lazy.
Yes, you heard right! Family planning is the practice of controlling the number of children in a family and the intervals between their births, particularly by means of contraception.
The African population is such that if we don’t put a measure to curtail rate at which we give birth, there would be dire consequences in the future.
Poverty and a number of factors influence family planning, but here’s a man who occupies the highest office of the land having a primitive view about it.
According to him, those who go for the plan they are too lazy and are afraid to feed their family. Magufili further warned women to stop consuming birth control pills but urged them to drop the use of contraceptives.
He said this during a women’s right rally which was meant to promote birth control.
He said: “Those going for family planning are lazy … they are afraid they will not be able to feed their children. They do not want to work hard to feed a large family and that is why they opt for birth controls and end up with one or two children only. Women can now give up contraceptive methods and it is important to reproduce.
I have traveled to Europe and elsewhere and have seen the harmful effects of birth control. Some countries are now facing declining population growth. They are short on manpower. You have cattle.
You are big farmers. You can feed your children. Why then resort to birth control?
This is my opinion, I see no reason to control births in Tanzania.”
Source: ghgossip.com
