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Judge Orders 40 Gay Men Arrested At Vintage Hotel In Lagos To Go For Sexual Rehabilitation
August 3rd, 2017 – Judge Orders 40 Gay Men Arrested At Vintage Hotel In Lagos To Go For Sexual Rehabilitation
At least 40 suspected homosexuals were on Thursday arraigned at the Ebute-Metta Magistrate Court and the Yaba Magistrate Court in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.
The suspects arraigned by the Lagos State Government included 28 adults and 12 minors for allegedly engaging in homosexuality contrary to the laws of the land.
The minors were arraigned before Ebute-Metta Magistrate Court, while the adults were arraigned before Yaba Magistrate Court.
The defendants, who are all male, were arraigned separately on a one-count charge.
They were all arrested last Saturday by men of the Lagos State Police Command in Owode Onirin area of the State.
The defendants were said to have been caught in the act of homosexuality at a popular hotel in the area simply known as Vintage Hotel.
According to the criminal charge, the defendants were said to have “On or about 29th July, 2017, at Vintage Hotel, No. 999 Ikorodu Road/Toyin Close, Weigh Bridge, Owode Onirin, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did engage in gay activities by permitting male persons to have canal knowledge of themselves against the order of nature and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.”
The adults are Adedayo Kamadupe (27), Abiodun Pedro (22), Ikechukwu Onyebuchi (32), Dike Stanley (19), Oji Charles Isioma (28), Garuba Ibrahim (21), Monday Favour (20), Ayo Marcus Ayobamidele (26), Stanley Adeasbo (25), Victor Isaac (18), Godwin Williams (19), Kashimawo Oluwatosin (25), Abass Tajudeen (24), Olamigoke Adeola (19) and Yussuf Fawaz (19).
Others are Johnson Michael (19), Francis Michael (22), Samuel Adeyinka (25), Samuel Collins (25), Kazeem Akorede (25), Adebayo Bukola (23), Ochiagha Ifeanyi (19), Babatunde Taiwo (26), Raphael Dugh (30), Kenneth Ubaji (19), Alisi Ferdinand Okechukwu (30), Malik Ahmed (18) and Olamide Adeola (18).
After the charge was read to the defendants, they all pleaded not guilty, while their lawyers – Ehiko Onoche, S.M Oladele urged the Court to admit them to bail.
The prosecution team led by Ms Adetutu Oshinusi from the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP), Lagos State Ministry of Justice did not oppose their bail application but urged the Court to direct the defendants to submit themselves to the Lagos State Aids Control Agency (LSACA) for monitoring and Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT) for rehabilitation.
The officials of both agencies were also present in court.
In his ruling, Chief Magistrate Adewale Ojo granted bail to the defendants in the sum of N500, 000 and two sureties in like sum.
One of the sureties, according to the Court, must be a relative of the defendants, while the other must be resident within the court’s jurisdiction. The sureties must also present evidence of tax payment.
The Magistrate also granted the request of the prosecution demanding monitoring and Sexual rehabilitation for the defendants, while the matter was adjourned to September 8, 2017.
The minors were arraigned before Magistrate Segun Elias of Ebute-Metta Magistrate Court in a closed-session.
iron bar
August 4, 2017 at 12:11 AM
UNA LUCKY WITH SUCH LIGHT JUDGEMENT FROM THE COURT.LEAVE YOUR FELLOW MAN KPEKUS..UNA NO GO HEAR.
Bukunmi Ilori
August 4, 2017 at 12:12 AM
Most of these young men are aids carrier, they should be separated from the rest of us
kath
August 6, 2017 at 3:52 PM
Have you been tested Hiv/Aid is rampant in the heterosexual community?
Mon
August 4, 2017 at 5:39 AM
I guess the Judge do not have much proof to charge them as gays and probably most of them are not……Gay people are sick in the head and suppose to admit that.
sam
August 4, 2017 at 10:58 AM
Ignorant is really a disease. The ignorance of our People stinks to the high heaven. Homosexualism is not acquired, is not a disease. That a person has a different sexual orientation from yours does not make him sich. Do you say that a left hand man is sich and should go for Rehabilitation ? Homosexuality is also in animals. Check it out in Internet.Years back, the psychiatrist assume it is acquired socially. But this theory is today abandoned. The mystery or reason for it, is medically not known. Human knowledge is constantly growing and with time we shall know better. Unlike our Society which has its rationality from religious and cultural perceptions, the western world is constantly researching on it. We should stop being unfair to these guys. That is the way they are made. It is not of thier own making. The western world has understood this and that is the reason they are becomming free with them. I beleive with time others will also understand. Dont get me wrong, I am not a homo, Infact, I adore, screw, eat and love pussy.
Jilo
August 4, 2017 at 11:58 PM
Sam you are a gay that is why you never see anything wrong in a man putting his raw dick inside another man’s anus where people are passing out excreta. Do you realize most of the body bacteria comes through your large intestine. That why most of them are dying of incurable diseases. I look at all homo as animal.
What do you mean over the time, people will understand, understand what? union between man and man. Oh! my goodness we are definitely in end time. May God protects me and my household.
kath
August 6, 2017 at 3:58 PM
The problem with Africa is that we are still ignorant when it comes to homosexuality we were all created by the same God and moreover none of you know, you might have brothers, sisters uncles, aunts etc….. who are gay.