Chapter 50

“Bravo, congratulations Barrister Nwaka. You made me proud today,” Pastor Okechukwu said, hugging the lawyer passionately.
“It’s not over yet.”
“Yes, I know. But that was very brilliant of you.”
“Let’s pack it up, baby.” Janie his wife said from behind, pecking him. “You need a drink.”
“Hell of a job today,” he said, blowing out his cheeks.
“And you made something out of it. Am so proud of you,” Pastor Okechukwu said.
“Thank you very much, sir,” Frankie chipped in, her eyes radiant with joy. you made me proud.”
“Don’t mention, I’m only doing my job,” the lawyer replied. “Let’s get out of here.”
As soon as they stepped outside the court room, journalists, reporters and what have you besieged them, asking a thousand and one questions at the same time.
“Sir, how does it feel to push the almighty condom company and its surrogates to the wall?” asked one persistent journalist.
“Sir, are you saying that sexual and reproductive rights are a sham and refusal to allow mothers to keep their babies, an act of violence to both the woman’s reproductive rights and the unborn baby’s right to life?” asked yet another.
Looking at the sea of faces and a thousand and one reporters wanting comments and feeling terribly tired, the barrister shuddered inwardly, wishing to be left alone. His personal assistant on media, Mr. Greg Obioha, sensing the situation, addressed the reporters.
“Barr. Nwaka will give a press conference tomorrow morning by 8:00 am.”
The next day as usual, reports of the Nnamani trial saga was in the major dailies and some international journals. One popular daily, The Sun, in its front page captured it this way: ‘No More Lies’. The Times, another popular daily titled it ‘Condom Propaganda: A Medical Cover-Up?’ While The Razor, called it ‘Safe-Sex = Failed Sex’. Many of the editorials, too, also called on the Ministry of Education to scrap the country’s failed, destructive and illogical safe sex education program. 
The trial also drew the ire of former doctor and now pastor and founder of one of the biggest Pentecostal churches in the country, Pastor Okechukwu, who was dismissed 10 years ago by the ministry for daring to alert the nation and the scientific community that dependence on condoms as the ‘be all and end all’ of all HIV/AIDS prevention program could be potentially disastrous. He has also written a letter to the Minister of Health, Dr. Alex Madubuko, asking him to enforce a law that requires all federal agencies to provide medically and morally accurate information regarding the ‘effectiveness and lack of effectiveness of condom.’
In an interview with ABC TV a few hours after the hearing, pastor Okechukwu said. “This report means that when condom use is discussed, it is no longer accurate or legal for the Ministry of Health to refer to sex as ‘safe’ or ‘protected.’”
Dr. Chidia Effuru, another pro-lifer, reacting to the news said that, “the entire public health model developed by the Ministry of Health and based on the idea that condoms offer protection, is a lie. The skeleton is out of the cupboard.” Dr. Effuru belongs to the 1,000 member physician consortium, a group that has accused the federal government of suppressing information contained in the NIH report. He says the ministry has known for years there was inadequate evidence for the broad claims made about condom. Others pointed out that the information could make people to start suing the ministry based on the Freedom of Information Request Act.
Another consortium member from Nikija, told Vanguard news that ‘this has all the earmarks of a good old fashioned medical cover-up.’
The scientific and medical communities too were in a state of confusion and disarray and the proponents of the so-called safe sex were upset too-but mostly because the reputation of all mighty condoms might be tarnished. One senior official of IPPF who pleaded anonymity repeated the ministry’s position in an interview with The Sun newspapers. “It is extremely important that the public understand the difference between data being inadequate and condom being inadequate.” 
However, Planned Parenthood meanwhile insists nothing has changed and that condom is still the best thing that can happen to a society that is addicted to sexual pleasure. Pro-lifers still maintain that action speaks louder than voice and insists that it’s important for Dr. Alex Madubuko, the Health boss, not only to officially recant the pro-condom propaganda of his ministry but to resign his office.
While that was raging, the pro-life group scored yet another point. Dr. Leslie Green, a leading doctor and a top official of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) came to court and testified against them. Dr. Green, in a no holds-barred session, admitted targeting the world’s children was one of the main anti-life strategies of the IPPF. She said IPPF’s compendium of activities includes concrete measures to indoctrinate children with the anti-life propaganda. She said the activities includes translating IPPF’s documents into languages easily understood by young people, creating youth oriented posters, graphics, games, videos and pity cartoons containing IPPF’s propaganda, Liaising with organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, UNESCO and other UN agencies, convincing young artists in the entertainment industry to promote the IPPF’s message and taking actions to overcome organizations they consider to be sources of negative influence and opposition to sexual and reproductive support services for youths. 
She said among these destructive programs is ‘sex wise’. A sex education radio initiative, developed in partnership with BBC world wide service where young listeners are ‘educated’ on such topics as ‘fore play and intimacy, masturbation, homosexuality, unsafe (sic) abortion, sexual coercion, prostitution, sexual transmitted diseases and contraceptive methods’ for both men and women. She concluded by saying IPPF represents an industry- the abortion industry and so it has every reason to promote promiscuity because there was a lot of money to be made in the spreading of the culture of death. Not just from girls in these countries who are having abortions, but also in grant money from western and US foundations. To IPPF, these countries are nothing more than markets to be exploited. 

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    Glaiza Matarong

    nice story

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    its lhang

    Great book

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    aquinodaniel

    so cool

    23/08/2023

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