A Non-governmental organisation, Pen Publishers has called on Osun State government and Ministry of education to remove sex education from the Basic Education Curriculum.

The organisation noted that there are some textbooks that contain sexual contents while citing the dangers it poses on pupils and students at tender age.

Recall that the then Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu in November 22 directed the Nigerian Education Research and Development Council (NERDC) to remove sex education from basic education curriculum.

However, it was learnt that only Kano State government that had banned some of these harmful books from being used.

Speaking at a Speech Giving Contest yesterday, tagged ‘Chastity: A step towards achieving life’s Goals’, the Convener of Pen Publishers, Mrs Haleemah Alli-Bankole urged Governor Ademola Adeleke to follow the 2022 federal government directive to remove sexuality education from school curriculum.

She said: “Today’s programme is an annual event, sometimes a speech given contest or a short story contest but this year it is based on speech giving contest usually organized in February before Valentine with the purpose to caution young people from being lured into sexual activities as a result of Valentine Period.

“There is a world wide curriculum, called the Comprehensive Sexuality Education Curriculum, known as the Family Life HIV Education. After a lot of studies, its discovered that the curriculum is detrimental to the morality of our young people here and should be removed.

‘The content of the CSE curriculum has been included into a lot of textbooks even on some compulsory examination text for junior school students so we were very happy when the Minister of education gave a directive for the removal of the Sexuality Education curriculum.

” Unfortunately, the content has not been removed from these textbooks. We were also happy when the Kano State government banned the harmful books and we hope Osun state government will follow suit.”