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Catching The Kito: The Network That Led To The Capture of Anti-Gay Criminals

The reports started circulating on Friday (March 15) and Saturday (March 16) through WhatsApp groups and amongst community members, of someone who’d just been set up. The circulation of these

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Kito Alert: More Lagos Kito Scum

In the time since I’ve been away, we have gotten a lot more reports about more criminals who make targeting gay people a choice. Here are some updates:   A

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Kito Alert: Lagos Thrives With More Kito Scum

Never failing to live up to its reputation as the kito capital of Nigeria, here are more reports of kito scum who operate majorly in Lagos. Emmanuel Onyema He goes

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Kito Alert: New Reports of Scum From the South-East

In the past several months, we have had reports of kito scum, whether operating as a gang or on their own. And in this never-ending battle to keep the community

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Kito Alert: Lagos, Owerri and Aba Continue To Breed Kito Scum

As insecurity continues to be one of Nigeria’s biggest problem, as Nigerians continue to fall victim to highway robberies, kidnapping and gun violence, so too does the average queer Nigerian

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Kito Scum and Their NEW Instagram Catfishing Strategy

It would seem as though kito scum have devised a new way of catfishing their targets. The usual method is to open an Instagram account filled with the stolen pictures

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Kito Alert: Oyigbo Has Become To Port Harcourt What Ojo Is To Lagos

We have held so many online conversations – in Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces – where we talked about kito, the way they work and how we can stay safe in

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THE CONSEQUENCE OF DIFFERENCE (A Kito Story)

For you are fearfully and wonderfully made. The day was 24th of May, 2019. Somewhere before that day, a plan had been made for me, against my being. When the

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Is There Any Reason That Makes It OK For A Gay Man to Victimize His Community?

In the years since we have been running these kito alerts, we have had a number of the named kito scum (those who are gay themselves) come into my inbox

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Kito Alert: The Kito Scum That Made The News

About three days before the news hit Instablog9ja that a gang in Nasarawa State was arrested for setting up gay people through the dating app, someone had come to our