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 Police Busts Homosexual Party In Lagos, Reels Out Names Of Fleeing Suspects

Just like they did some days ago in Ogun State, by acting on a tip off from neighbours to the scene of the incident, the Nigeria Police have busted yet another homosexual party in Lagos State, Nigeria, on Friday, 23rd April, 2023, with a number of alleged culprits arrested and many others said to be on the run.

Following a confidential information from an informant whose name is witheld for security reasons, fully armed men from the Ikoyi Division of the Nigeria Police stormed the Friday night gig purportedly organised by men and women of the outlawed LGBTQ gang arresting 4 suspects, while 25  others were reported to have escaped  the wrath of the law, and are consequently put on the wanted list of the security agents.

According to findings by this Platform, the illegal group had gathered at a night club holding at 9, Maitama Sule Street, Ikoyi, Lagos State, to have their weekly rendezvous tagged: "Happy Hour", which the teeming public never knew men and women of the odious  sexual orientation of Lesbianism, Gay, Bisexual,Transexual,  and Queer, were intrinsic part of, and they had, reportedly, started having moments of intimacy at the time the Police swooped on them.

And while many of them were able to escape through different exit points from the club house, some were not so lucky as they were grabbed and handcuffed  by the Police before being whisked away. Those who were arrested at the scene, according to the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, in a Press Release sent to News Platforms, included two females, Titilope Ojo and Josephine Nwaneri, and two males, Kingsley Okigwe as well as one Femi Adeleye, who happened to be the Manager of the club, and alleged to be a bisexual himself too.

During  Police investigation after the raiding, names of those who escaped in the night were able to be retrieved from a Register of attendees in possession of the Manager. And the PPRO has, therefore, reeled out the names of everyone on the Register to be on the wanted list of the Police. And the names of the 25 suspects include: Omolara Aderibigbe, Patrick Okobule, Cynthia Desmond, Segun Ajiboye, Sadiq Garba, Adams Attah, and Chuks Nwajei.

Others are:  Damola Adegoke, Kemi Festus, Feyi Adepoju, Cynthia Okechukwu, Peter Ekong, John Akpoborire, Lekan Omojowo, Adebayo Adedayo, John Okunrohunmu, Garba Umar, Abubakar Sodiq, Kingsley Goodluck, Mary Morgan, Kunle Ajiboye, Eunice Ifeanyi and Comfort Ozadebe.

According to the Police spokesman, anyone with useful information on the whereabouts of the people on the wanted list should approach any Divisional Police Station in Lagos State and any information given by them would be treated with utmost confidentiality. " We would not reveal the identity of anyone with useful information on how to bring any of the suspects to book", the PPRO assured.

It would be recalled that a similar busting of a suspected Homosexual Night Club in Ogun, a neighbouring state to Lagos, occurred about a forthright ago where 27 men and women alleged to be of the LGBTQ group were rounded off by men of the Ogun State Police Command, and were all arrested, as no one was said to have escaped. They have all been lined up for prosecution as at the time of this report, and they are all expected to be sentenced by the court, if found guilty.

In Nigeria, Section 214 of the Nigerian constitution criminalises ‘carnal knowledge’ against the order of nature with a penalty of 14 years imprisonment. Anyone arrested and found guilty of homosexuality, bisexuality, lesbianism and the rest of it, in Nigeria, would face charges, and would be sentenced accordingly, if found guilty as charged.

By Saheed Ojubanire.