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Human rights activist and psychologist, Comrade Israel Joe, has criticised Nollywood actor, Jim Iyke, for what he described as a demeaning remark about single mothers.
Jim Iyke, during an interview with a Ghanaian radio station, claimed that single mothers cannot raise a boy into a “proper man.”
Reacting in a Facebook post on Tuesday, Joe described the actor as an “irresponsible over-matured bachelor” who lacks the moral standing to make such a statement.
He argued that Iyke is in no way better than former U.S. President Barack Obama, who was successfully raised by a single mother.
“Na Jim Iyke naim come better pass Barack Obama wey single mother raise?” Joe wrote.
He further stated:
“Sometimes people just open their mouth and express their limited and one-sided experience, tagging the whole world into their microscopic views of life.
“You can attack and interrogate single motherhood without demonising single mothers as if they are not human beings. While I share in the view that we should stop glorifying single motherhood, we must also condemn irresponsible fatherhood. Some cases of single motherhood are mistakes or ignorance, others are intentional, and a few are situational.
“Jim Iyke, being a supposedly responsible man but an irresponsible, over-matured bachelor, has no moral compass to say single mothers cannot raise responsible male children. Is his not being married traceable to being raised by a single mother? Maybe he made the statement in a narrow context, I guess.
“As psychologists, we should interrogate social issues holistically rather than from a left-handed, narrow perspective.”
