Nigeria’s House of Representatives members want the federal government and other sub-national governments to prohibit the use of the popular children’s textbook ‘Queen Premier’ in schools for containing pro-LGBTQ+ texts.
The lawmakers made the call recently during plenary after the adoption of a motion moved by Sulaiman Gumi, who wants the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) to exercise its “statutory responsibility to vet educational materials” before they are used in Nigerian schools.
According to Gumi, the book contains words like “gay”, and “eros” and there is a covert attempt to introduce books with “immoral culture” to primary and secondary school students in Nigeria.
Gumi said: “Queen Primier subtly introduces terms like ‘gay’, ‘eros’, etc, that communize sexual perversion and immoral behaviours, thus exposing innocent children to terms inappropriate for their age, which is unlawful, unethical, highly immoral and antithetical to child upbringing.”
He added that there is a need to “protect moral values in children and society at large by resisting the use of educational materials that teach or promote any form of alien behaviour which violates the laws and moral values in all educational institutions.”
Another lawmaker, Bello El-Rufai, revealed that there is a subtle attempt to “catch young people young” through the books. He made it known that he had to withdraw his daughter from a primary school in Abuja for using the book.
He said: “There is an Act and the terms are clear. I will get personal and tell you that I moved my daughter from a school, whose name I will not mention for obvious reasons, and i found out that for nursery school, they thought it was okay for that book to be shared.”
Deputy Speaker, Ben Kalu, who presided over the plenary session, in his contribution, said the parliament has a responsibility to safeguard Nigerians and future generations.
In its resolution, the House of Representatives urged the federal, state and local governments to place a total ban on local production, importation and use of any educational material that contains texts that promote LGBTQ+ content in schools.
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