Nigeria: Traditional chiefs curse gays, help anti-gay police
Traditional rulers in the Egor local government area of Edo State have rained down curses on homosexuals and are helping police on anti-LGBT raids.
According to the Nigerian newspaper Leadership, Chief Nathaniel Enyeula said traditional chiefs are joining police raids seeking to arrest homosexuals in the area.
Enyeula, who is chairman of the Egor Traditional Rulers Council, said the chiefs consulted the Priest of Owema, which is believed to be the highest deity in Egor, and offered traditional libations to counteract homosexuality.
He said chiefs and police officers moved from house to house between midnight and 1 a.m., seeking suspected homosexuals (and violating their rights to privacy).
Among their targets were two alleged “leaders of a gang of sodomists” who were arrested in 2016, jumped bail and remain on the police wanted list. They were among four men — Emmanuel Okafor, Abraham Richard, Ebendu John and Okpara Imo — who were reportedly arrested on homosexuality charges on Feb. 10, 2016. Okafor and Richard violated bail and are still sought by police.
Ukpeh displayed photographs of the suspected gay men before newsmen at Egor. He said that if the two men are re-arrested, the arrests would scare homosexuals and make them change.
He called on the public to watch for gay people and out them to the police.
Nigeria’s anti-LGBT law, the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act of 2014, provides for prison sentences of up to:
- 14 years for entering into a same-sex marriage.
- 10 years for attending a same-sex wedding.
- 10 years for a “public show of same-sex amorous relationship.”
- 10 years for belonging to any “gay organization,” whether it is seeking recognition of human rights for LGBT people, meeting the spiritual needs of LGBT people, or providing health care for LGBT people.
Related articles:
- 21 varieties of traditional African homosexuality (January 2014, 76crimes.com)
- Botswana chiefs: ‘Homosexuality has always been here’ (July 2013, 76crimes.com)
So much poverty and ignorance among the people, and seems they are obsessed with what two people of same sex do in their private bedrooms ? Instead of seeking knowledge on how to improved their lives, and grow foods and make a better life, they dwell on sex ? No wonder they are a 3rd world country and will remain that way due to their priorities. How does two people of same sex, loving each other or having personal sexual relationships harm them, or affect their lives in any way ? Shameful and sad !
there is also an ongoing hunt of suspected gay couples in zambia.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lusakatimes.com%2F2018%2F01%2F30%2Fpolice-launch-investigations-case-two-zambian-lesbians%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEH0T5gBGJMjt373EasRCTiJG3lFw
https://tumfweko.com/2018/01/30/police-it-is-an-offence-for-people-of-the-same-sex-to-engage-in-intimate-relationships-zambia/