A 71-year-old retired Police Officer has said that no amount of education and precaution could stop the HIV/AIDS menace because the disease was a punishment from God.

He said it was not until the present generation stopped going against God's commandments and repented that the menace would stop.

Sergeant Emmanuel Agbozo, the Police Officer, who was speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Hohoe at the weekend said: "When you are trading in sex and fornication is at its peak with men engaging in sodomy you must expect AIDS to spread."

He reminded the people about the punishment meted out to people by God when they disobeyed Him and cited how God asked Noah to build the Ark and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah as examples.

He, therefore, called on Religions Leaders to stop educating their congregations on how to use condoms and rather prevail on them to repent, change their ways and pray for forgiveness. "It is only when we realise our sins and repent that God will forgive us!"