Nigeria: Court awards N5m bail to 69 gay wedding suspects
By Ahmad Hadizat Omayoza, Mamos Nigeria
Community, Uvwie Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta during a gay wedding service, have been released on bail.
Counsel to the suspects, Mr Ochuko Ohimor, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Warri that they were owned up to bail with the amount of N500,000 and two guarantees each.
As indicated by Ohimor, the guarantees should dwell inside the Effurun purview of the Court.
He added that the suspects should sign an endeavor at the State High Official courtroom, Effurun, in Uvwie LGA, where they were prior summoned on Sept. 4.
“The suspects were conceded bail at an expense of N500,000 and two guarantees each. The guarantees should live inside the Effurun ward,” Ohimor told NAN.
Police investigator, Vincent Orarumen, had gone against the bail condition yet their legal counselor contended in any case, saying that the supposed wrongdoing was not a capital offense.
NAN reviews that the suspects were strutted before newsmen on Aug. 29 at the Ekpan Police headquarters at the occurrence of the Delta State Magistrate of Police (CP), Mr Ridge Abass.
They were captured by a break group of police agents connected to the Ekpan Division while directing a gay wedding function which they labeled, “all white party.”
The CP, while marching the suspects, promised to arraign them in accordance with Nigeria’s Enemy of Gay Regulation, which, as per him, forbids same-sex marriage in the country.
“I can ensure that they will be charged to court. We are not messing with it. It is an unmistakable case, however, they are as yet assumed honest unless someone can prove the contrary to be true by the capable court,” he said.
