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

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. 

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“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 live differently 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.