… As Police Arrest 7 Youths
BENIN CITY – The need to curtail the pervasive menace of same-sex relationship in communities in Edo State have been reemphasised.
This emphasis was made by some elders in the Ikpoba Hill community following the arrest of some youths allegedly engaging in homosexuality and gay relationship.
According to a source who spoke on the condition of anonymity, seven young boys were arrested in a brothel, drinking and having faun in a birthday party of one of their childhood friends.
The source stated further that responding to a discrete call, police authority swoop on the venue of the party and caught some male youths, pants down, indulging in the amoral and sexual relationship.
This kind of relationship is unAfrican. It is very amoral and against our culture. It must be stamp out of our society by discernable and right thinking government and individuals”, the source added.
Speaking to our newsmen in Benin City, one of the community elders, Pa Ogbebor, explained that the all-male youths arrested in the act are of the same neighbourhood.
Some of them are in my neighbourhood. We are very surprise to see them indulging in this kind of shameless act”, Pa Ogbebor said.
He stated further that one Peter Osagie who was celebrating his birthday, invited one Linus Ndidi, Paul Ndolu, Augutsine Agbonkhina and Precious Obese among other of his childhood friends to a brothel.
They were caught in the act of indulging in gay and homosexual relationship, legally prohibited by Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act 2013”, Pa Ogbebor added.
According to Pa Ogbebor, this Act prohibits a marriage or civil union between persons of same sex and equally provides penalties to check and prosecute anyone indulging or found wanting in this regard.
This Act according to Pa Ogbebor, “prohibits a marriage contract or civil union entered into between persons of same sex, and provides penalties for witnessing of same thereof.”
“So the government and security operatives must upscale their investigations and exterminate such activities in our society. It is bad enough and our culture abhors such activities,” Pa Ogbebor explains.
Speaking to newsmen in his office, the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Johnson Kokumo has vowed that despite the arrest of some of the gay suspects, the Command will leave no stone unturned to arrest and prosecute other fleeing suspects involved in the amoral activities and other forms of criminality in the state.
He however, solicited from the general public useful information that could lead to the arrest of any unscrupulous elements in the State.
