By Ayo Yusuf
Over a hundred gay suspects carrying out a gay wedding ceremony in a hotel in Delta State, Nigeria, have been arrested by the police.
The suspects will be paraded shortly, say the police in a tweet from their official Twitter handle on Tuesday.
Homosexual relationships are illegal in Nigeria and according to Nigeria’s anti-gay law enacted in January 2014 by the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, culprits face a 14-year prison term if convicted of having sex with members of the same sex.
The Nigerian government first put the law to test in December 2019 when 47 men arrested by the police in a hotel in Lagos the previous year were arraigned in court, accused of publicly displaying affection for members of the same sex.
All 47 men pleaded not guilty and were granted bail by the court. A federal judge later struck out the charges against the men because of a “lack of diligent prosecution” by the police.
