The Canadian Government has shown its disapproval of Nigeria's new anti-gay Law by cancelling the intended February visit of the Nigerian President to Canada. The Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak said while calling on the International Community to respect the sensitivity of African cultural values, that:
“The hostile reaction of Europeans and the United States to the recent signing into law of the bill that outlaws marriages and sexual relations between people of the same sex has not taken into consideration the socio-cultural differences between people of different racial backgrounds, and more importantly the religious beliefs of our people.
“What the anti-gay law has tried to achieve is to protect and promote family values as we know it from the start; we accept that the Europeans have reached the height of their civilization, we are yet to see how marriages between persons of the same sex will accelerate our own socio-economic and technological advancement of our people.
“We value the bilateral and multilateral relationships between Nigeria and its international partners and we believe that no unnecessary pressure will be brought to bear on us to accept what our people consider to be abhorrent.”
“We are yet to see how this same sex practice will reduce inequality, reduce the grinding poverty facing our people. Same sex rights and privileges will not generate employment, enhance health care, improve education and technological growth which is what we need now. We know that those who are into this practice are in the minority, the US and EU should respect the sensibilities of those in the majority who abhor the practice of same sex relations.
“The law makers deliberated carefully on the bill before passing it and sending it to the president for his assent. We cannot dictate to Europeans on what bills they choose to make; they have been passing legislation to regulate migration of Africans into their countries without any complaints from any other country, some states in America have legalised the use of marijuana for medical purposes, ordinarily we should see that as a welcome development since we have people who grow the weed here, but for the sake of the health of our people, we cannot say what is good for America or Europeans must be good for us.
“I think it is a big distraction for these countries to assume that same sex marriage is our utmost priority at this stage of our development.
“Nigeria will continue to respect the rights of its citizens but those who want to engage in mercantile promotion of human relations that the society does not accept may be incurring the wrath of the law”.
The European Union and the US had threatened to review their economic assistance to Nigeria for signing the bill which they had lobbied hard to stop.
- Dis is my message to Europe, America, and Canada....4uk you guys....go 4uk yourselves!!!
- Walahi...Na mouth una dey.
- U guys cannot do any JACK SHIT....you don't own us!!!
- 4uk your economic aids...if dat is a condition for shoving your DIRTY VALUES upon us Africans.
- We have enough problems as it is...most of which were caused by your wicked COLONIALISM.
- So mind your 4ukin business.
- Why must we lose sleep over common visit to OBSCURE Canada...people dat don't even kno where Africa is on the map...let alone care about us???
- What a bloody joke!!!
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