A Nigerian Human Rights lawyer, Sonnie Ekwowusi, has sparked off a debate on social media after claiming that surrogacy is against pure law and is illegal in Nigeria.
Throughout an interviewwith Come up TV, Ekwonwusi mentioned Surrogacy is just womb renting and is the greatest violation of a woman’s dignity and section 30 of the Child Rights Act criminalizes surrogacy.
In his words
‘’Surrogacy is against natural law. It’s also against Nigerian law. A lot of people don’t know that Surrogacy is illegal in Nigeria because Surrogacy simply means mixing the sperm and egg and putting in the womb of a woman, it’s virtually called woman renting. and the woman carries the child for the 9 months and delivers the child and gives the baby to the one who needs the child and the same woman goes around and does the same thing for another person . On the end of the day that woman becomes an object and this is why it’s mentioned that surrogacy is the best violation of a woman’s dignity, the greatest violation of the identity of a woman and that is why Section 30 of the Child’s Right Act criminalizes it. It says that anybody that buys, sells and exchanges a child commits a crime and is punishable.
Surrogacy additionally has to do with Child Trafficking. Part of the Child Trafficking Act additionally condemns and criminalizes Surrogacy. You’ve gotten the Little one Rights act and the trafficking law against it and the National Health act which talks about Trafficking Human Zygote and Human Embryo because that’s what it(surrogacy) is all about.”
Watch a video of him speaking under
