Nigeria: Mixed Feelings Trail Imprisonment of Nollywood Actor Over Gay

22 September 2012

Mixed feelings have continued to trail last Monday's imprisonment of a 28-year old actor, Mr. Chukwuemeka by a Karu Senior Magistrates' Court, Abuja, for having sexual intercourse with another man through the anus.

While some Nigerians hailed the judgment of the court, very many others frowned at it, arguing that imprisonment of the up and coming actor was "barbaric and unacceptable to the people."

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