NIGERIA POLICE DECLARES ESHILAMA NELSON WANTED FOR SUSPECTED INVOLVEMENT IN HOMOSEXUALITY.
Men of the Nigerian Police Force have declared Mr. Eshilama Nelson, an indigene of Benue State wanted for violating the country’s anti-gay law due to his alleged involvement in the act.
In a media statement, the police claimed that Nelson was wanted for engaging in an act deemed to be against Nigeria’s extant laws.
The statement urged anyone with useful information that could lead to his arrest to report to the nearest station.
Attempted same-sex marriages have also been criminalized in Nigeria since 2014. The maximum punishment in the 12 northern states that have adopted Shari’a law is death by stoning. That law applies to those who have voluntarily consented to the application of Shari’a courts. In southern Nigeria and under the secular criminal laws of Nigeria, the maximum punishment for same-sex sexual activity is 14 years imprisonment.
According to the 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Project, 97% of Nigerian residents believe that homosexuality is a way of life that society should not accept, which was the second-highest rate of non-acceptance in the 45 countries surveyed.
