2 brothers nabbed for homosexuality

Two blood brothers, Johnson and Emmanuel Efenaghor, have been arrested by policemen attached to the 'B' Division Police Station, Warri, Delta State, for allegedly practicing homosexuality.

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The arrest of the siblings was made possible when a young man they reportedly sodomised forcefully, laid a complaint to the police.

The victim, Kelvin Williams, according to the police, was sexually molested and defiled by the brothers who are said to have been indulging in the act for many years without the knowledge of their parents.

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Emmanuel on the other hand, could not come out to tell anyone because his elder brother had threatened to kill him if he should reveal the secret.

However, unable to bear what was being done to him and the constant threat to his life by the brothers if he ever backed out, Williams summoned the courage to tell the police.

He told the police that his ordeal began in July when Johnson stopped him on his way to visit his father at Odion Road, Warri, and told him that he was handsome and would like both of them to become friends.

"Johnson persuaded me to come to his house and sleep over, but assured me he had no ulterior motive and I agreed. But in the night, he did all he could to lure me into the sin of sodomy but I refused. Then he and his brother forcefully had sex with me through the anus and after that, vowed to kill me if I ever told anyone. But I decided to tell the police because I knew that homosexuality is an offence. Second, my grandfather is a pastor and I live with him. Even when I told him that I arrested somebody, he didn’t believe me. My grandfather is a pastor and I didn’t grow up with street life.”

Johnson who is now in police detention, admitted to initiating his brother as well as Williams into homosexuality.

He said he was introduced into the act by a Jehovah Witness man who came to preach to him in Lagos three years ago, pleading for mercy from the police while promising not to indulge in the act again.