Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River state on Thursday said that young people must abstain from sexual intercourse till they get married.
The governor, who said this while speaking on the commemoration of the 2016 ‘World AIDS Day’ celebration in Calabar, stated that married couples must also remain faithful because abstinence and faithfulness are the only ways to end the HIV scourge in Nigeria.
According to him, sex before marriage is a taboo in the African culture, “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 added.
If i hear him well; hope
youth adheres to what
he said.