Babatunde Fashola, minister of
power works and housing, says he has never spoken against the LGBT (Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) community in Lagos or elsewhere.
Fashola made the clarification on
Wednesday while speaking at the Commonwealth Peoples Forum, ongoing at the
Commonwealth Head of Governments Meeting (CHOGM 2018) at Westminster.
The minister who was speaking on
governance through the eyes of current and former leaders of Commonwealth
cities, explained his challenges in office as the governor of Lagos state, and
spoke on the inclusion of the elderly and every other portion of the city he
governed.
Fashola was asked why he was
against about two million people within the LGBT community in Lagos, and about
an attack of about 40 members of the LGBT community in Lagos.
The former governor said: “I have
never made a statement against the LGBT community, I don’t recall ever making
such a statement. So wherever your source came from, that is grossly
inadequate.
“That said, the 40 incidents that
you mentioned, I am not aware of it. As you might know, I am no longer governor
of Lagos state, I ceased to be governor in 2015.”
This is coming about 24 hours
after the Prime Minister Theresa May announced that laws criminalising the LGBT
community should be repealed and corrected in Nigeria and across the
Commonwealth.
Nigeria is seen in the
Commonwealth as one of the hostile countries for the LGBT community in the
Commonwealth, with discussions across different panels focusing on inclusion
for the LGBT community major Commonwealth cities.
Fashola said the biggest
challenge in his first 100 days in office as Lagos governor was the unexpected
issues of security, with the city reporting a number of bank robberies and
murder in weeks.
The minister added that after
facing the issues at the state level, no such incidents were recorded in over
two years in the state.
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