Planning to have some good time this weekend? Well, better take a close look at the condoms you will be wearing. This is after the government recalled some Condom brand from the market.
The Health ministry has recalled Fiesta Stamina and Fiesta Big Black condoms on grounds they are substandard.
The Pharmacy and Poisons Board said in a November 20 letter to Cupid Limited that the condoms are faulty.
“The batch for Fiesta Stamina failed freedom from holes test while that for Fiesta Big Black failed thickness test,” the letter signed by Jacinta Wasike said.
“You are hereby directed to immediately institute a recall of the affected batch. In addition, submit a recall plan within two days of the receipt of this letter,” she said.
Condom safety is a concern among many Kenyans, an issue that is likely to feature in this year’s World Aids Day celebrations.
On Wednesday, a man who sued over a Zoom Condom burst was told that he might have worn the wrong size.
The man had sued Beta Healthcare and Kenya Bureaus of Standards over a ‘fake’ Zoom condom that he said burst during intercourse.
Beta Healthcare says that condoms come in sizes and every man, depending on how much endowed or less endowed, ought to use the right size.
Chirag Patel, an employee of Beta Healthcare, said the man did not produce any evidence to show the court that he indeed asked for right size that fit him.
“I am aware of the fact that if one puts on a condom that does not match his size, there is a high chance of rupturing,” Patel said.
“If at all the petitioner wore Zoom condom (which he has to prove) it is possible that it was not the right size. That is why perhaps it ruptured, an allegation he still has to prove.”
The company wants the court to dismiss the man’s case as it is a waste of judicial time.
Beta Healthcare says the man cannot be believed because though he claims to be married, he seems to have cheated on his wife with many women.
“Such a man can lie again. Much as he has recorded that he is a married man, he has admitted to being an infidel, unfaithful, untrustworthy, and a perpetual cheat who would stop at nothing but cheat on his wife for the sole purpose of quenching his savage sexual thirst,” reads the reply by Beta Healthcare in part.