HIV Epidemic Looms in Nigeria, as 40 men recently arrested in Lagos for homosexuality and now free on bail, tested HIV-positive

It is a piece of information that would alarm members of the public––that 40 young men recently arrested in Lagos for homosexuality have tested HIV-positive and now roam freely in the society as a result of the bail granted them by a magistrate court. 

The grim reality and the consequential catastrophe that could arise from such scenario is accentuated by two facts. One, the individuals are not the average citizens. They are gay. Two, in the light of their knowledge of their precarious health situation, there is a propensity among some of them to suddenly go on an infection-spree mission––most disturbingly, the easiest thing for the malicious ones to do.

The disturbing dimension of the fact is that these sex poachers are on an active recruitment drive. Worse still, they have constituted themselves into a club of committed homosexuals drawn from far and near.

Arrested and remanded, their case had quickly become a can of worms for the handling authorities. The prison authority hastily flushed them out of the facility to avert a likely HIV epidemic were they to stay for a further length of time––though not fast enough, for during the brief spell, one of them had sex with an inmate!

The court too went soft on them by ‘watering’ down the bail condition––for an offence that is one of the gravest in the country’s criminal code.  Now free, as you read this page, that they could be infecting new persons by the day is not far-fetched.

As disturbing as the narrative may sound, it is a story that is currently unravelling in Lagos State. It started with the apprehending of 40 suspected homosexuals who were arraigned and were to be remanded but had to go through mandatory HIV test in Kirikiri Prison. The result of the test was the shocking discovery that nearly all of them were infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

- Sun News