About 100 people arrested for attending a gay wedding in Nigeria

Numerous ‘gay suspects’ were arrested by the Nigerian police for attending a gay wedding. Police stormed a hotel in Ekpan town, located in Delta state, southern Nigeria, at about 2 a.m. on Monday and arrested at least 100 people.

Two of the suspects allegedly got married at the event, Delta State Command spokesman Bright Edafe told a press conference. He further stated that homosexuality would “never be tolerated” in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country with about 230 million inhabitants.

“The amazing part of it was that we saw two suspects, and there is a video recording where they were performing their wedding ceremony,” he said.

“We are in Africa and we are in Nigeria. We cannot copy the Western world because we don’t have the same culture.”

He made it clear that police officers in Nigeria cannot fold their hands and watch gay people openly express their orientation in the country, adding that the suspects will be charged in court at the end of the investigation.

Arrests of gay people are common in the West African country, where the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act prohibits same sex relationships.

The law means that anyone belonging to a gay organization can get up to 10 years in jail, and anyone married to a person of the same sex can get up to 14 years.

The law, enacted by President Goodluck Jonathan in 2013, has been condemned by several Western countries.

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