Six Gay Men Allegedly Arrested in Edo State
While Italy is granting its LGBT citizens the chance to be with their loved ones in recognized unions, back here in Nigeria, six young men accused of being homosexuals have been arrested by the Edo State police command. According to the Nation, the young men whose names were given as Festus Osagiede (24), Hyacinth Imahanrebhor (20), Itama Omon (25), Onwukwe Prince (28), Monye Chukwuma (23) and Osadebe Kelvin (26), were paraded by the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 5, AIG Musa Daura at the state police command headquarters in Benin City yesterday May 12th.
According to Daura, the suspected homosexuals were arrested in different parts of the state. The AIG said leader of the homosexuals, Festus Osagiede, lured one of the suspects, Itama Omon into the act after attending a night club in 2006.
“After the third suspect (Itama) got drunk, Festus Osagiede invited him to his house and forcefully had carnal knowledge of him. Since then, they have been committing the crime with others at large until May, 2016, when luck ran out of them and they were swooped on by zonal detectives,” he said
All of them are presently being detained by the police and would soon be charged to court.
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19 Comments
pete
May 13, 11:07Sigh!
Keredim
May 13, 11:24So Festus in 2006 aged 14, got Itama aged 15, drunk in a night club. Then took Itama home and fucked the shit out him for the next 10 years!??
Meanwhile, Light no dey, no fuel for over 10 years.
No one is parading the people responsible for that.????
Mandy
May 13, 12:02Lol. Keredim, the former is a sin, the later an inconvenience. Only perpetrators of sins are paraded. Perpetrators of inconveniences are given fatter salaries.
Don’t you just love this country.
Delle
May 13, 11:24The ‘victims’ are the ones worsening their problems. Making it seem like the Osagiede guy forced them into some kind of cult rampage or something.
I hate this country.
ambivalentone
May 13, 11:35“the leader of the homosexuals…”? Is this like a cult or coven with branch heads and shit? I am yet to meet the overlord of my region o.
I’d really REALLY love to see the premise within which they worked to solve this ‘crime’ and ascertain for sure these guys were gay
bruno
May 13, 11:49i would like to be a leader of homosexuals. sounds prestigious
Mandy
May 13, 12:00Lmao. Sounds like such a hoe-ly position Bruno.
Lorde
May 13, 22:26Azin… I dnt knw wether to laff @ d ignorance of this IG or b offended by it “the Leader of the homosexuals…lured into the ACT(what we r is now an act)…perpetrators of the crime” this is just awful, very awful
Tiercel
May 13, 12:17Daura again?
Btw,what crime was he talking about?
Cho
May 13, 13:13Sounds corny. I wonder what evidence the police has got against them. Poor guys.
Khaleesi
May 13, 15:23Such a fantastically and hopelessly stupid corner of the world, spending valuable law enforcement resources on capturing gays while other countries are moving forward … Tufiaaaaa!! The commentary that history will pass on Nigerians will be heartbreaking to read about … Smh
Law
May 13, 17:53Am sad for my country. Just so sad.
bubble butt
May 13, 19:37When the government should be finding solution to this inflation in economy,they are chasing men
Lorde
May 13, 22:27Literally…
@wystainlex
May 14, 11:45This guy festus is the most foolish person av ever heard of, ,,what a dirty pig,well that save them right by the time they are out of jail their mate have gone far in life,,,idiotic humans, ,,,guys do you know this guy sale credit card opposite my working place he has rape bobizua son before they deal with him he came out from it and still continue, ,,i just pray they should all die inside prison, ,,gabage pls guys add me on fb @Michael stainlex,,,follow me on Twitter @wystainlex
teeboi
May 15, 10:59Abeg, Who be This, Yaba left patient in the Building, What Are We Saying what are You Vomiting
Trey
May 15, 22:07Rotfl…crazy comments…God help them through their trying period. Amen
Cross
May 20, 15:45give us our right am gay and love guys dont judge me. only the poor are victims in nigeria the rich gays will never be seen on news. nigeria police are evil they even make it worse for gay guys they dont understand the law so act any how. oh ma goshhhhhh
bobo
January 10, 00:44police are just wasting their time for unrelivant things if they say dey should caught theif they will not be able to look at the USA they have legalised gay marrage they are progressing . nigeria should work on there law the guys did not hurt or kill any body they look each other that is why dey fuck each other