National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has expressed confidence that the President Muhammadu
Buhari administration will fix the nation’s economy.
Oyegun gave the assurance when South-East Professional Women
Association of Nigeria and Diaspora (SEPWAND) stormed the party headquarters to
seek the support of the national leadership of the party to implore state
governors to relax child adoption laws and procedures to allow genuine couples
to adopt easily
Assuring the party’s support for the group objectives, the
APC national chairman lauded the group’s effort to ameliorate the sufferings of
affected persons and curb menace of illegal adoption centres which he linked to
the economic situation in the country.
In his words: “There is no question at all that it’s been
for some time now a matter of considerable regret the way, as a country, we
have featured internationally, not just in the trans-Mediterranean human
trafficking, but also illegal adoption centres among other social ills.
“There is no reason the country cannot run a proper adoption
procedure such that those who genuinely need to adopt children be facilitated
to legally do so. So that such adopted children can be monitored to curb
abuses.
“We know these practices have been made worse by our unusual
economic circumstance resulting from almost two decades of running the economy
aground. We, as a party, have now been saddled with the responsibility of
patching up a horrible situation that we did not create. The president
Buhari administration is going all out to fix the economic
base of the nation,” he reiterated.
Earlier, SEPWAND National President, Mrs. Nwanganga Ibeh
made the request when she led a seven-member delegation on a courtesy visit to
the APC national leader. She said if child adoption laws and procedures were
made a bit flexible, genuine couples could adopt easily and in turn drastically
reduce the operation of illegal adoption centres in the country.
By Romanus Ugwu
