BILL PROHIBITING SAME SEX MARRIAGE PASSES THROUGH SECOND READING

Speaker House of Rep Aminu Tambawal

A bill for an Act to prohibit marriage or civil union entered into between persons of same sex and solemnization of same has passed through second reading in the House of Representatives. Leading the debate on the bill, Rep. Mulikat Akande-Adeola PDP-Oyo, said the proposed legislation would ensure that the institution of marriage is respected.

Akande-Adeola, who is the Leader of the House, said that the bill would also protect and preserve the Nigerian culture, She urged members to support the second reading of the bill, saying that marriage between same sex ”is foreign to the culture and traditions of Nigerians.”

“This practice has no place in our culture, religion, in Nigeria or anywhere in Africa, it is immorality and debasement of our culture, we condemn it in totality.”

Rep. Adams Jagaba (PDP-Kaduna) aligned himself with the submission of the Majority Leader and said no religion supports gay marriage. We are a cultured people; we cannot carry everything from other culture, he declared.