Delta Police Move To Charge 67 Gay Suspects To Court

The 67 suspects who were last week apprehended in Delta State over alleged homosexuality will be arraigned next week, the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, has confirmed.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, the Police spokesman revealed that investigations were being intensified to ascertain the level of involvement of each of the suspects before their arraignment.

The police spokesman affirmed that the suspects and the exhibits were in police custody.

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According to the PPRO, the arrested suspects had been cooperating with the police in their investigations.

The Delta State Police Command on Tuesday paraded a total of 67 gay suspects arrested over alleged homosexuality at an all-night wedding reception at a popular hotel off Refinery Road in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area.

The state Commissioner of Police, Wale Abass, used the forum to warn parents to closely monitor the associations their children belonged to.

The CP, represented by the PPRO, Edafe, while stoutly condemning homosexuality in the state, said the suspects were arrested in a hotel where some suspected gay members were holding a marriage ceremony.

In another report, the Ogun State Community, Social Orientation and Safety Corps, aka So-Safe Corps, has arrested a 20-year-old suspect, identified only as Ridwan, for allegedly killing his father, Ishau, in Oshoku village, in the Ijebu North Local Government Area of the state.

Ridwan was alleged to have committed the crime on Thursday, August 31, around 12am.

The Director of Information and Public Relations of the Corps, Assistant Commander Moruf Yusuf, confirmed the incident in a statement on Friday.

The statement read, “Around 12pm on Thursday, August 31, 2023, officers of the corps on a routine patrol heard a strange noise in a building while at Oshoku village in the Ijebu North Local Government Area. The officers entered the building to confirm what was happening. But to their dismay, they found a man lying lifeless in a pool of blood as the alleged killer fled the scene.”

The Corps Commander, Soji Ganzallo, was said to have instructed the Zonal Commander, Ijebu Zonal Command, Marcus Ayankoya, to get the suspect arrested within 24 hours.

Africa Today News, New York

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