Men treated like animals for being gay

Image from Naijapals

The three men in the picture above were on Monday, 14th January arrested and paraded unclad in Imo state, Nigeria. Their offence? They were said to have been caught having gay sex and for that reason, they were beaten up, stripped, tied together with a rope as though they were animals and made to walk naked around the community.

Now as much as I detest homosexuality, I don't and will never support these kind of inhumane treatment. It is sickening. Nobody should treat another human like that. Being gay is not natural and I can never understand why people indulge in it but jungle justice is not the answer. That's taking the law into your hands and that itself is an offence.  Punish them some other way.

Nigerian gay to be deported from UK

A Nigerian asylum seeker has said he would ‘prefer dying’ than being deported back to his home country from the UK. John Abraham, 25, is currently in Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre near Heathrow airport, west London and is due to be deported to Nigeria today 8 March. He told Gay Star News that an article on their site was his last hope to avoid being sent back where he fears he will face persecution and physical attack. And he asked us to identify him as he said the danger to his safety would be no greater if he was deported – as everyone in his community in Nigeria already knows he is gay. Abraham said: 

‘I left Nigeria in 2008 and came to Britain to study business administration. ‘But while I was here I introduced my boyfriend to my cousin and she told my family. My father is a pastor and my family has abandoned me and now the whole community knows. ‘I would be sent back if I was attacked and persecuted but I also wouldn’t have any life as a gay man. I would prefer dying to going back.’

Abraham said he also had a male partner in Nigeria too, as a 19 to 20-year-old student, but his sexuality was not known by others at that time. 

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