14 years

What will you say if your child comes up to
you and say he or she is sexually attracted
to someone of the sex?

This is a topic that a lot of people are not
ready to talk about. in Nigeria what you will
hear immediately is are you ready to spend
14 years in jail?

the society we live in doesn't give us all the
opportunities we need to be ourselves and
to be who we are and what we would like to
be referred to as.

About four years ago in 2014, the former
president of Nigerian, President Goodluck
Jonathan, proposed a bill and signed it into
law that the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition
Act (SSMPA), on the fact that the Nigerian
culture is directly opposed to homosexuality.

The law also forbids and ban same-sex
relations. They are also criminalised under
the criminal code of the country and also
under the Islamic Sharia laws adopted by 12
northern states in Nigeria, including Bauchi,
Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano,
Katsina, Kebbi, Niger, Sokoto, Yobe and
Zamfara.

The law in Nigeria against same sex
marriage/ relationship dishes out a 14-year
jail term for anyone who enters into a
same-sex marriage or union and a 10-year
jail term for any person who runs or visits
gay clubs, societies, or directly or indirectly
makes a public show of affection of same-sex
relationship in Nigeria.”