We didn’t say we’re placing a cap on childbirth, says finance minister

The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, on Wednesday, denied
saying that the Federal Government was going to put a cap on the
number of children that a woman could have.

On her Twitter handle, @ZShamsuna, Ahmed said, the only plan
that the government has was to encourage traditional and religious
leaders to talk to their members about child spacing.

Her tweet read, “The federal government has been engaging
critical stakeholders like traditional and religious leaders to
advise their members on child spacing. We never said we are placing
a cap on childbirth. What is child spacing? This is a healthy
practice of waiting between pregnancies.”

See her tweet:

The federal government has been engaging
critical stakeholders like traditional and religious leaders to
advise their members on child spacing.

We never said we are placing a cap on childbirth.

What is child spacing?

This is a healthy practice of waiting between pregnancies.
pic.twitter.com/fs0kfPzElw^[1]

— Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed (@ZShamsuna) October
24, 2018^[2]

Ahmed at the 24th Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja, on Tuesday,
said that the Federal Government was working hard to come out with
a policy that would limit the number of children that a mother
could have in Nigeria.