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A self-confessed homosexual has been arrested by security agents in Plateau State while seeking audience with Governor Joshua Dariye posed as a lady.
JOS - A self-confessed homosexual has been arrested by security agents in Plateau State while seeking audience with Governor Joshua Dariye posed as a lady.
The 19-year old identified as Benita Amaechi Anatogu was picked up when ‘her' weird looks caught the attention of vigilant security aides of the governor who suspected him to be fake and decided to question 'her' following which ‘she' confessed to being a male but a gay.
Parading the suspect to journalists at the State Security Services (SSS) headquarters in Jos on Monday, the command's spokesman Musa Garba said the suspect dressed as a lady, was arrested last Friday when he visited Governor's House, Rayfield and requested to see the governor.
The suspect told journalists who chatted with him that he went to see the governor to seek financial assistance claiming that he needed assistance because he was duped of his money on arrival from the United States.
He said his dressing as a lady was out of preference for that mode of dressing adding that he had a 'boyfriend' back in the United States to whom he hoped to get married. He gave his boyfriend's name as Henry.
He said there was nothing wrong about dressing as a lady as he has no apologies for being a gay saying"that is how I like to dress; I am not out to deceive or entice anybody".
The suspect who claimed to have been raised in Jos where he attended primary and secondary schools before travelling abroad for further studies, said he was also in town to clear certain misconceptions about him arising from his lifestyle
Garba said the command would decide what to do withhim after interrogations.