The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Gombe State has arrested 76 people for planning to host a same-sex wedding.
NSCDC Gombe State Public Relations Officer (PRO), Buhari Sa’ad, while parading the suspects at the command’s headquarters in Gombe, said out of the 76 suspects, 59 are males and 21 have confessed to being homosexuals.
The Gombe NSCDC PRO also said 17 females were also arrested at the scene.
“They were arrested at Duwa Plaza along Bauchi-Gombe Expressway while holding a homosexual birthday and they had plans to hold a same-sex wedding before our men raided the scene”, he said.
“Fifty-nine males were arrested, 21 wilfully confessed to being homosexuals and 17 females present at the scene were also picked.
“They will be charged to court to answer for their crime which is on social vice; a crime in Gombe State.”
