Thread by @drdebodun

#Nigeria: Parents must bear the first responsibility for the children they bring into this world before we begin putting blames on the government of the day. Many of the bandits & terrorists in northern Nigeria were denied parental care too early in life.

SLS on my mind now.

Former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was trying to say something about developing a new approach to family structure in the North but somehow the baby was thrown away with the bathwater. I agree he veered too deeply into politics.

It is clear the issue must be revisited.

I have seen some pictures of some of the apprehended bandits, kidnappers and terrorist and I could only open my mouth in amazement at how small and young many of them are. They remain criminals to me but I wonder if we are going to line them up and shoot them now?

When talking about the remote causes of today's criminal activities in northern Nigeria we must not forget that the socio-cultural factors came b4 the economic ones.The society encourages men to procreate with many women. The economic burden to the man is often not talked about.

The children thus produced easily learn the rule of the jungle, "survival is everything ". They form groups & cartels which begin to mount their own version of "war of all against all."

The family is the unit of society and once we overlook this then we should be ready for war.

We must begin to rethink the laizzes fairez attitude to family size that presently exist among people of low socio-economic status in Nigeria.

It's not for nothing that China established the one-child policy for a long time. The results are there for all to see today.

If we think its our natural right to continue procreating as we desire, then we have not seen anything yet with criminal activities in our country esp. in the North. Things will only get worse with an exploding population.

We must begin to limit our population growth.