While speaking on Thursday at the commemoration of the 2016 World
AIDS Day celebration in Calabar, the Governor of Cross River State, Ben
Ayade, said that young people must be encouraged to abstain from sexual
intercourse till they get married adding that abstinence and
faithfulness are the only ways to end the HIV scourge in Nigeria.
The governor who disclosed that it’s high time young people were
taught that s*x before marriage is a taboo in the African culture, also
criticised campaigns advocating for condom usage, saying it’s a false
feeling of protection.
He siad
Rather, it increases the level of promiscuity among the
younger generation and encouraged unfaithfulness. The absolute factor
that can put an end to HIV/AIDS spread is total loyalty and abstinence.
Married couples must be faithful to their partners. Young
people must remain virgins until they get married and never allow any
barber to use unsterilised clipper to barb your hair.
Whatever the story, AIDS is real, it is a scourge, you must avoid it,” the governor said.
Ayade further noted that his government would do everything within its power to curtail the spread of the virus in Cross River.
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