Police in Nigeria have reported arresting more than 100 men at a gay wedding. They said that those detained will face legal action in line with the country’s same-sex marriage laws.
A police spokesperson confirmed that the suspects were taken into custody on Monday at 2 a.m. local time in the Warri neighborhood of Ekpan. 200 individuals were initially arrested after the police raided the hotel where the alleged gay wedding ceremony was being hosted. According to the police spokesperson, homosexuality ‘will never be tolerated’ in Nigeria.
We are in Africa and we are in Nigeria. We cannot copy the Western world because we don’t have the same culture. This is not something that will be allowed in Nigeria.
Police Spokesperson DSP Bright Edafe said.
The broadcast reveals that dozens of the accused were forced to stand and sit on an elevated platform behind the spokesperson before being questioned by local media. Local reports indicated that most of the arrested suspects claimed that they attended the event as designers and not models as it had been purported.
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Human Rights organization, Amnesty International took to social media to condemn the arrest through a statement. The statement called for an end to what they term a ‘witch-hunt’.
In Nigeria, same-sex relationships are illegal, and the country’s penal code authorizes a sentence of up to 14 years in prison for those found guilty of forming a same-sex civil union. A ten-year prison sentence can be imposed for witnessing, encouraging, or assisting in a same-sex marriage.
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