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= THE DELTA-100 =

August 29, 2023.
It is not news that the recognition of same-sex unions in Nigeria is still strongly ethically unwelcome and illegal according to the longstanding Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act 2013 enacted in 2014 by the then President Goodluck Jonathan which makes homosexuality punishable by a 14-year jail term and following after this, LGBT rights in Nigeria are as well being blatantly infringed upon unlike non-LGBT residents.

It was first the Egbeda-57 incident in August 2018 when the police stormed the Kelly Ann hotel, arrest 57 for alleged homosexual initiation and no fewer than 57 out of about 100 suspected intending members of the club were arrested while others escaped.

Then again, in a brothel in Lagos state’s Okota area, the Lagos State Police Command detained 10 people in December 2020 on suspicion of homosexual behaviour. Also, 8 alleged homosexuals were detained for alleged gay activities in a hotel in Isolo, Lagos, in January 2022.

Today August 29 2023, another incident of similar occurrence is being reported in Delta state, Nigeria. National newspapers and Social media blogs like the Punch News, the Nation (Nigeria), Premium Times, Niger Delta Today, New Telegraph, Legit.ng and many others like them have vigorously updated on and confirmed the arrest of a 100 hundred suspects during gay wedding at a popular hotel in Ekpan, Uvwie, Delta state.

These alleged incidents are but a few of a whole lot and it has become a thing of culture or habit, within legal bounds or not, for allegedly arrested individuals to be publicly paraded physically and on social media and the Delta State Police Command made a public announcement of this on twitter at exactly 9:06am today August 29,2023. And this but begs the looming question; Are they really innocent of the alleged crime? Will these ones too be acquitted or made to dance to the tune of the seemingly harsh measures against alleged LGBT persons in Nigeria?