While we love the people with these orientations, we consider that it still remains an aberration.

Thinking same-sex in Nigeria? 

 You will go to jail!

Eugene Ohu

On May 30, Nigeria's House of Representatives ratified a bill that seeks to criminalize same-sex unions and any public displays of it. Offenders, including those who witness or lend support by attending such gatherings are liable to go to jail for up to 14 years. In passing this bill, the lower house has now completed the full cycle of a similar bill also passed by the Senate (the upper house) in November 2011. It has now been passed to President Goodluck Jonathan to sign it into law.

Nigerians are overwhelmingly in support of this proposed law, and many are breathing a sigh of relief. In different fora, the Senate president David Mark revealed that there have been overt and subtle pressures from other countries, especially the U.S and Britain for Nigeria not to pass the bill. And the longer it remained pending in the lower house, the more apprehensive Nigerians became, hoping their legislators have not been compromised.

Against the background of the recent approval of same-sex “marriages” in France, the apparent “progress” in neighboring South Africa and the wind of “change” in the rest of the world, many wonder why Africa's most populous country Nigeria, its largest oil producer and the country with one of the fastest GDP growths, decides to be “retrogressive” on this one point. They need not wonder. The fact is that Nigerians consider the rest of the world who are towing the same-sex champion position as being retrogressive and to put it mildly, not very rational, since they have chosen to now turn common sense and right thinking on its head.

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