Six young men accused of being homosexuals have
been arrested by the Edo state police command.
According to the Nation, the young men whose
names were given as Festus Osagiede (24),
Hyacinth Imahanrebhor (20), Itama Omon (25),
Onwukwe Prince (28), Monye Chukwuma (23) and
Osadebe Kelvin (26), were paraded by the
Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of
Zone 5, AIG Musa Daura at the state police
command headquarters in Benin city today May
12th.
According to Daura, the suspected homosexuals
were arrested in different parts of the state. The
AIG said leader of the homosexuals, Festus
Osagiede, lured one of the suspects, Itama Omon
into the act after attending a night club in 2006.
“After the third suspect (Itama) got drunk,
Festus Osagiede invited him to his house
and forcefully had carnal knowledge of him.
Since then, they have been committing the
crime with others at large until May, 2016,
when luck ran out of them and they were
swooped on by zonal detectives.”he said
All of them are presently being detained by the
police and would soon be charged to court.
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