How to wipe out baby factories in Nigeria –Mary Ikoku

For the President of Moms Africa and CEO, Integrated Quest Public Relations, Mrs. Mary Ikoku, baby factories must be wiped out of the society because they represent sheer cruelty to mother and child. According to the Working Moms’ boss, she helps women to cope with the challenges created by mixing careers with parenthood, and it’s one of the reasons the South East Mothers Summit recently held to nip the baby factory menace in the bud.

In this chat with TS Weekend, the public relations expert and former special adviser to the late Minister of Information, Dora Akunyili explains why baby factory is an exhibition of a lack of value for human life. Read on.

Baby factory menace

First is the challenge of motherhood and parenting and the need to restore our society to our originality, which included a strong respect for morals. Listening to today’s media, you will discover the level of moral decadence in our society, which has led to this menace of baby factory. Women are not only an endangered species and now their offspring are not left out. The baby factory menace is an exhibition of a lack of value for human life. The South Eastern women disagree with this evil and are doing everything to not just curb it but also completely eradicate it.

The summit

With the remarkable turn out at the summit, it shows that the women are not just listening but are also in it together to curb this societal challenge. With subsequent interaction and intervention, the perpetrators of this evil act will understand that we are no longer taking this with levity; that we are saying no to it, and mothers are doing something about it.

Government’s involvement

This is not a duty for the government. However, I believe that the government will set up relevant measures to enable its implementation by adopting the communiqué. We must also realise that laws and policies have been made in this country that people flaunt, so our target is the family system where the perpetrators of the acts are groomed. As mothers, we are gathered to decide how we can hold our home front together in order to save our nation, Nigeria. This summit is different and successful because when women gather to do something, they passionately strive to achieve it.