By Suleyman Dunoma Abuja,
Seventy-six persons have been arrested in Gombe while planning to throw a same-sex wedding at one of their homosexual birthday party.
The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Gombe State Command, Buhari Sa’ad, disclosed this while parading the suspects before journalists at the command’s headquarters in Gombe on behalf of the state Commandant, Mohammed Muazu.
Fifty-nine of the suspects are male, 21 of whom confessed to being homosexuals while 17 others are females.
Sa’ad in his narrative said they were arrested in the middle of a birthday bash.
His account, “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.
“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.”
