The Ugandan government has appointed a nine-member pornographic control committee to prevent use and spread of pornography materials and information.
According to the country’s Ethics minister Simon Lokodo, the committee will spend Shs2b (around $555,000) a year to fund their activities.
The team will also comprise of 30 to 40 member staffs.
They will acquire top-end gadgets to monitor and or intercept, downloading, watching, sharing and or transmission of electronic pornographic material and Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has been co-opted under the arrangement to handle media and cinema proprietors that broadcast such material, this according to the report.
According to the report, the team had been empowered to identify, seize and destroy any materials deemed pornographic.
Suspects will be turned over to the police for further investigations and subsequent prosecution.
According to minister Lokodo pornographic acts is “one of the deadliest moral diseases in Uganda” that needed to be stopped if the country was to attend development.
“The display, sale and circulation of pornographic images in the print and electronic media is one of the key reasons we have escalating cases of drug abuse among youths, incest, teenage pregnancy and abortion, homosexuality and lesbianism and defilement,” he is quoted saying.
