The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, says his party has been saddled with the responsibility of “patching up a very horrible situation which it did not create”.
The SEPWAND team came to seek the support of the APC national leadership to appeal to state governors, particularly those on their platform to relax child adoption laws and procedures to allow genuine couples to adopt easily.
The APC national chairman, who assured the group of the party’s support, lauded their effort to ameliorate the sufferings of affected persons and curb the menace of illegal adoption centers which he attributed to an economy which was run aground over the past two decades.
The APC boss, however, said that President Muhammadu Buhari led administration was fixing the economic base of the nation aggressively to enable the country stand permanently on the path of growth in few years through its investment on infrastructure, agriculture and other sectors of the economy.
Odigie-Oyegun said, “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 centers amongst other social ills.“There is no reason why 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 even be monitored to curb abuses.”
The SEPWAND National President had earlier said that if child adoption laws and procedures were made flexible, genuine couples could adopt easily and in turn drastically reduce the operation of illegal adoption centers in the country.
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