The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, has criticised the “Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill” saying some of its content could “provide an avenue for the legalization of much anti-human life and anti-family activities.”
The pastors, in a report toward the finish of their gathering, likewise censured the dispersion of condoms and other preventative pills in schools.
"While we recognize some authentic rights because of ladies and the need to advance them, we, by the by, censure the arrangements of the "Sexual orientation and Equal Opportunities Bill," which could give a road to the legitimization of numerous hostile to human life and against family exercises. We along these lines request that such arrangements be canceled from the Bill.
"Likewise, we denounce in unmistakable terms the indiscrete dissemination of condoms and preventative pills in our schools, youth benefit introduction camps and private/government wellbeing foundations. No individual, expert or organization has the privilege to end human life."
They likewise requested the quick activity of government to guarantee sufficient and even appropriation of voter enlistment materials the nation over.
The report was issued toward the finish of the CBCN's first whole session for 2018 in Abuja.
The pastors likewise mourned what they portrayed as reports of insufficient voter enrollment materials experienced in particular parts of the nation.
In spite of the fact that the Catholic priests did not express the locale where the said report in regards to poor voter enrollment materials purportedly radiated from, the meeting viewed the circumstance as heartbreaking. It likewise denounced late reports of underage voting purportedly experienced in Kano State.
"Decisions are around the bend. This procedure starts with the enlistment of voters, an activity that has just begun across the nation.
Reports contacting us from everywhere throughout the country demonstrate that in numerous spots offices for enrollment are not accessible, in this manner denying numerous individuals of the privilege to enlist for voting. It is similarly revealed that such trouble in enlistment frequently focus on specific sections of the group.
"Moreover, we know about the enlistment of underaged people. It is very terrible that our youngsters enable themselves to be utilized as standard foods in appointive acts of neglect.
Government and particularly Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), should address these genuine slips with most extreme earnestness and without segregation and predisposition," the announcement marked by the previous CBCN President, Ignatius Kaigama, and his group of officers said.