BY OYEYEMI SELIM OYEDEJI
Kano State government has ordered immediate crackdown on any group advocating or promoting any sexual agenda in mical to moral and religious standards.
The directive came amid claims and counter-claims between the Federal Government and pressure groups on inclusion of rights of Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer
(LGBTQ) in the Samoa Agreement Nigeria signed on June 28,2024.
Though the Federal government has denied media reports claiming that endorsement of LGBTQ was an attempt by President Tinubu’s administration to allegedly receive $150 billion grant from the West, Kano has vowed to oppose any attempt to crave agitation in favor of rights of immorality in the state.
The Commissioner for Information, Baba Halilu Dantiye, who dropped the hint in Kano, stated that Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf had directed the Hisbah Board to arrest any
advocate, group or promoters.
According to him, government would not accept any agreement that promotes activities of gays and lesbians, as it contravenes the norms and values of the people of Kano.
Meanwhile, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has accused the Tinubu administration of running an opaque and secret government over the alleged signing of an agreement with clauses requiring Nigeria to endorse the rights of LGBTQ people.
According to the group, Tinubu will continued to be misunderstood and mistrusted by millions of Nigerians both home and overseas, because his administration doesn’t run an open, transparent and accountable government, but practices opaque style of government reminiscent of a dictatorship.
HURIWA recalled that “Nigeria’s central government says it will file a complaint against Daily Trust Newspapers to the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN)
Over its publication on the Samoa agreement.”
Its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement in Abuja, asked the government to “blame itself for any perceived misgivings on the so-called Samoa
agreement,” insisting that the current administration “runs a government into a secret society.”
Onwubiko advised the government to “open up the policies, programmes and initiatives of the administration and subject them to public scrutiny before implementation.”