FG urged to enforce prosecution on same-sex marriage prohibition Act

Dotun Omisakin, Lagos The federal government has been urged to implement the same-sex marriage prohibition Act of 2013 to enforce deterrence. The national president, Association of Papal Knights and Medalists in Nigeria, Rt. Hon Commander Steve Adehi, stated this on the backdrop of brewing transgender individuals in Nigeria, citing Okuneye Idris popularly known as Bobrisky. […]

Dotun Omisakin, Lagos

The federal government has been urged to implement the same-sex marriage prohibition Act of 2013 to enforce deterrence.

The national president, Association of Papal Knights and Medalists in Nigeria, Rt. Hon Commander Steve Adehi, stated this on the backdrop of brewing transgender individuals in Nigeria, citing Okuneye Idris popularly known as Bobrisky.

The president stressed this during the press conference in commemoration of the 16th Annual National Conference of the Association of Papal Knights and Medalists in Nigeria (APKMN), themed, ‘Living an Authentic Catholic Life: Challenges and Opportunities in Nigeria’.

“Well, the position of the Church is very clear. We are against all those forms and those types of living. A man carrying out himself to be like a woman, or a woman living like a man. These are all the things that we are complaining about.

“And men trying to be like women and all that. The Church condemns it in its entirety. Which means we condemn what this young man is doing. And we condemn other people who live, who also lives different from what God has given to them as their sex,” he said.

He identified lack of training as the bane of poor leadership, urging the federal and sub-national governments to imbibe Catholic social teachings as preconditions for becoming leaders.

“Definitely our society will have advanced much more than we are today, because the Catholic Social Teachings actually take care of every aspect of our lives. And that’s why you see that the Catholic Church is doing so well in all the areas where they go into.

“Is it education? Is it health facilities and all that? And then care for the poor. The Church is well granted in these areas. And we feel that if our leaders have that background, they will definitely be better leaders than they are today.

“So we are recommending that as part of the preconditions for becoming leaders in the country. If you are granted that respect, definitely we will not be where we are today in this country,” he said.

The Secretary, Dicastery of Evangelization, Vatican, Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu hinged the increase of transgender individuals on lack of prosecution of the law.

“The application of the laws you are talking about will only be tested when he is prosecuted. So if he has committed an offense, which the federal government can define, then it is left for the federal government not to prosecute him. But what we are saying as a church is that what Bob Risky is doing is unnatural,” he said.