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NIGERIA
US, UN fund population control
Millions spent on effort
When US President Bill Clinton was in Nigeria August 26-28, he announced $64 million in “aid” to fight “deadly diseases” in the country, but the bulk of the money is directed to population control under the guise of “reproductive health,” according to the news web site Lifesite.
Clinton said that the money would be used as follows: $35 million for reproductive health, $10 million for AIDS prevention, and the rest to fight malaria, polio, and other diseases. Days later a press release from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation announced that it would invest a minimum of $35 million through 2003 in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that provide family planning and reproductive health services, i.e. birth control and abortion, to Nigerians.
The US and Packard population control funds come after the United Nations focused on Nigeria as being in “need” of population control, despite the fact that Nigerians resist Western efforts to depopulate their country. Jim Hughes, president of Campaign Life Coalition, said, “Sixty-five years ago the world denounced the eugenic program of Adolph Hitler aimed at eliminating Jews and others he considered ‘undesirables.’ It is time for the world to speak out against this latest eugenics program aimed at eliminating Nigerians.”
Last October, Pierre Channu, a demographer with 50 years experience, called the report on the world’s population issued by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), “false” and “a genuine manipulation.” Channu, professor emeritus of the University of Sorbonne and a member of the French Academy, said in an interview that the African population figures are inflated, as was shown in the result of a census carried out in Nigeria a few years ago, whose figures in no way agreed with those of the United Nations.
This July, Carol Ugochukwu, president of United Families of Africa in Enugu, Nigeria, said that Western delegations were forcing population control on unwilling Nigerians since her people consider children a great blessing. Regarding condoms she said, “Today, [Westerners] now come in with condoms—condoms are everywhere! They spend so much money on condoms and they make our children promiscuous. They say it will stop AIDS—but it is getting worse! It makes no sense to me.” She concluded, “I believe that all that is to exterminate the whole race. Yes! Yes! To extinguish us! . . . And that is why they are spending so much money on birth control!”
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