Senator flays Europe, America over pro-gay stance

PEEVED by the threats of sanction over Nigeria’s ban on same-sex marriage, sponsor of the bill, Senator Domingo Obende, yesterday urged European and American countries to transfer technology, not “morals” on the rectitude of such cultural and religious aberration.

Speaking to journalists in Benin City, Edo State, Obende also commended the leadership of the Senate for its support throughout the period the bill was in the House. He said: “I have always said that the best thing they can give to us is technology transfer, not ‘moral’ transfer.

“We are traditional people, a people of culture. We are much civilised in the way we do our things here in Africa and Africa is naturally unique, and that is why we are totally different from the culture they keep. We are a sovereign nation and I do not think that a country will have to legislate for another sovereign nation.

“Nigeria is a sovereign nation, we have the right to legislate on the governance of this country. We need technology transfer by which Nigeria will be developed.”