What we should be worried about is the average Nigerian penchant for breeding like rats, cockroaches and rabbits. 200 million people today?! This is staggering! How are we going to cater for them in the next 20 years?!

Femi Lasode is a seasoned filmmaker, an auteur with a focus. He is a cerebral content producer with verve. After launching many Nigerian musical acts in America through concert promotions and video productions, the auteur shot ‘Sango,’ a film on one of Africa’s greatest pantheons to world acclaim.

He launched Even Ezra Studios that produced sitcoms such as ‘Paradise Park’ and musical magazine show ‘Afrikan Rhythms.’

At one time, he was the former president of Performing Musicians’ Association of Nigeria (PMAN) and he has been passionate about our societal behavior and response to maternal health and family planning.

The storyteller and a Pan- African, feels Nigerians are not doing enough in terms population control and this lackadaisical attitude is affecting our economy and social wellbeing.

In his social commentaries, he confesses, “Fela was worried about the state of the nation decades ago and that’s what gave him the inspiration on so many of his songs like “Sorrows, Tears and Blood” “Suffering and Smiling” and “Original Suffer Head”. Ozziddi king Sunny Okosuns was worried about the state of the nation, the reason he came with such chart busters like ” Which Way Nigeria?” Yet the Nation is still standing.”

Never to mince his words, the content producer believes more sensitization and punitive measures have been introduced enough by various governments to educate Nigerians, instead of adhering, Nigerians engage in mass production, even when the basic income is very low and could hardly sustain their families. “What we should be worried about is the average Nigerian penchant for breeding like rats, cockroaches and rabbits. 200 million people today?! This is staggering! How are we going to cater for them in the next 20 years?! Nigerians are their worst enemies, not Nigeria” he concluded.

It would be recalled Nigeria recorded twenty-five thousand new births on 2020 new day alone and which has become some sort of worries for World Health Organization (WHO ) and financial institutions like International Monetary Fund and World Bank respectively.

Words /Femi Lasode /edited/Ireho Aito/ photographs /Femi Lasode archives