Lawyers To Drag Organisers Of LGBT Event To Court

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By Ade Wahab

Some lawyers in the country, including a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, (SAN), Mr Osaro Egbobamien, are set to drag the organisers of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, LGBT, rally in Lagos to court for violating the law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Specifically, the lawyers are saying the event, organised by Bisi Alimi, on October 29, this year somewhere in Lagos, violated the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act (SSMPA) signed into law in 2014 by former President Goodluck Jonathan, it was enacted on the premise that the Nigerian culture is antithetical to homosexuality.

Our correspondnent gathered that the lawyers are working in concert with the Family Watch International, an NGO promoting family values and virtues across the world.

LGBT (or GLBT) is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. Activists believed that the term gay community did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred.

Alimi’s event was reportedly sponsored by Elton John AIDS Foundation.

Recall that Alimi made the headlines in 2004 when he came on national television to publicly say he is gay. The first man in the country to openly admit that.

He left Nigeria in 2007 when he said his life was threatened and was granted asylum by Britain in 2009.

Also, allowing same sex marriage was one of the ways United States under Barak Obama pressurized Jonathan before the 2015 general elections.

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