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Africa: Nigerian Police arrest 5 Homosexuals for fighting in Lagos after contracting HIV

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5 homosexuals have been arrested by the Nigerian Police Force after fight broke out between them when they found out they have been infected with the HIV virus.

According to news published by Punch Newspapers, a Nigerian paper, a group of five young men aged between 20 to 31 years old, had a disagreement after discovering that a member, Ezeugo, also the leader of the clique had multiple sexual partners. Two of the suspects are from Lagos while the other three are from Cross River.

In a statement released by the Police spokesperson SP Chike Oti, “We got a distress call from residents around 3am that there was a fight among five homosexuals living together in a room apartment. “On getting there, we were told that late that night, the neighbours heard a noise and thought a thief had broken into the house. But they later discovered that the noise came from the room where the men stayed and that they were fighting.

The tenant who accommodated the others, Ezeugo, had gone out to bring a new gay partner and was about to sleep with him when his first lover protested that he could not be sleeping with him and his tribesman from Calabar, Cross River State. Ezeugo denied that he wanted to sleep with the new person. “While we were interviewing them, the first lover said his major grouse was that Ezeugo was sleeping with him and wanted to sleep with his tribesman as well.”

“They were into gay relationship and a quarrel broke out among them. “The security men who listened to their heated argument alerted the police and the Ikotun Divisional Police Officer sent men there to arrest them. “One of them confessed to be HIV/AIDS positive and said it was his boyfriend that infected him. ”

The boyfriend was sleeping with the other men as well and that was the cause of their fight,” SP Chike Oti added.

The reaction towards homosexuality in Nigeria is one of blunt disapproval as indicated in the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act. A 14-year jail term is the proscribed punishment for an offender.

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