The struggle faced by gay Nigerian women is often overlooked. "When you get there you discover the person isn't even gay and there are six or seven men there … who are just out there to beat up gay men." 'I'm going to be killed' "What people do is ping you or you get chatting and then you talk about hooking up," he says. "The were taken to police custody but in their statements they said they did it to correct from the social vice because he was suspected to be gay."īack in Lagos, Mr Kass says gangs used social media to catch unsuspecting gay men out to either beat them up or exhort money from them. In August, she says, a 17-year-old schoolboy was allegedly beaten to death by some of his classmates in Jigawa state because they suspected he was gay.
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"Any time the Hisbah (religious police) catch wind of any gathering they'll bust up the party and arrest and torture them." "What we've seen are people arming themselves with these laws and arresting people indiscriminately," LGBT and women's rights activist Dorothy Aken`Ova says. The situation for LGBTI people in northern Nigeria is more difficult than for those living in the south, with at least 114 gay men and women having been arrested since January this year. ( ABC News: Declan Cooley ) Anti-gay vigilantes and cat-fishers Nigeria has the highest rate of HIV in west and central Africa, according to the United Nations, with an estimated 3.5 million people infected with the virus.Īkin paid his way out of jail but spent a night sleeping naked on a Lagos police station floor. His NGO - Access to Health and Rights Development Initiative - was at the hotel conducting HIV tests for some of the patrons on the night of the arrests. Nigeria is an incredibly divided country but Lagos activist Peter Kass says hostility towards gay people was one issue that cut across region and religion. "My grandma bought the newspaper and said I was not part of their family anymore and that I should leave the house." "When I came out my mum found out and the people I work with were abusing me saying I'm a girl," he says. Nigerian teen, Tunde has been kicked out since his grandma saw him in the news ( ABC News: Declan Cooley )Īlong with the other men, Tunde pleaded not guilty to the charge in court, but his picture, name and HIV status were taken by local media and splashed across newspapers around the nation. "This is when I had no choice … I said I was gay," he says. "The police came through and started beating us so I covered my face because I didn't want my mum to know," he says.īundled into a cell with hardened criminals, Tunde says he was beaten up by another prisoner, called the President, who was instructed by police to extract confessions. A gay is a human being why I'm bold." 'I didn't want my mum to know'įor Tunde*, the consequences were foremost in his mind. "A gay is a human being and it's God that created me like this. This is what I choose and they say I should live my life," he says. So far no-one has been sentenced to death and convictions are rare.ĭays after the hotel arrests, the Lagos State Attorney-General Adeniji Kazeem said the tough stance taken with the men was to help put "a stop to the exploitation of under-aged children" by gay men.īut Doyin*, 15, says no sex with minors took place.ĭoyin was in jail for seven days before he was released, but unlike many, he wasn't fazed by the consequences. In the country's Muslim north, 12 states have adopted Sharia, with punishment for gay sex including lashings, jail and death by stoning. In 2014 former president Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill which proscribed penalties of 14 years' jail for same-sex marriage and 10 years' for same-sex "amorous relationships". Gay sex has been outlawed in Nigeria since the time of British rule but recently the situation has become more dire for Nigeria's LGBTI community. asked them to let me die in ," Femi says. "I tried to bribe my way out of it and members of the community went to speak with my father. Every minute, every hour."Īfter a month and two days in jail following his arrest, an NGO bailed him out.
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"When he was angry he would start flogging me," Femi says. In a country like Nigeria where 91 per cent of people believe homosexuality should be criminalised, his confession only led to more frequent and ferocious beatings from his father. He kept the relationship a secret until his father accused him of being "gay and acting girly". Before court the men were dragged out in front of local media ( ABC News: Declan Cooley ) He wanted me to 'die in jail'įemi says he "became gay" at 14 when he fell in love with the man who raped him, an older man who was close friends with his father.