Kibaale — The Omukama of Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom is opposed to the use of condoms in the fight against Aids and homosexuality.

Dr Solomon Gafabusa Iguru said condom use promotes immorality.

Condom use is one of the strategies that the government encourages in the fight against HIV/ Aids spread. Others are abstinence and faithfulness.

The national HIV prevalence rate is 6.2 percent.

Iguru was speaking as chief guest during the commissioning of St. Thereza Catholic Parish in Mugarama Sub-county on Sunday. During the function, forty couples received holy matrimony.

"Condoms have encouraged people to become prostitutes" he said.

He said people engage in illicit sex on the premise that condoms protect them from contracting sexually transmitted diseases and attaining unwanted pregnancies.

He said condoms have demeaned sex which in African tradition is sacred. "It is disheartening to note that they (condoms) have increased immorality" he said.

"This is an imposition of the whites on our culture. They want to dilute our treasured social set up." He said Bunyoro culture; norms and values prohibit any forms of illicit sexual practices like prostitution, fornication, adultery and homosexuality.

All these were unheard of in Bunyoro," he said. He said sex according to Bunyoro culture is sacred and is only permitted between tow consenting adults of different sexes and who are legally married.

He accused western countries of contributing to moral degeneration in Africa through circulation of pornographic materials.