Senate
President David Mark has said
the decision of the National Assembly to ban same-sex marriage in the
country is irreversible. Mark, according to a statement, said this at a
dinner hosted
in his honour by the Nigerian Community in Prague, Czech Republic,
yesterday
[Jun 13].
The Senate president explained that
the bill, which has been approved by both chambers of the National Assembly,
would not in any way infringe on the rights of Nigerians.
He
said:
The law
against same-sex marriage is an approval of the wishes of the generality of
Nigerians who are desirous of living within our cultural bounds. The law is not
designed to infringe on the human rights of Nigerians in any way.
Also, wherever you go in our country
today, our people are completely in support of the National Assembly because
the practice of same-sex, as you all know, is alien to us.”
Meanwhile, the Senate president has
appealed to the Czech Republic to allow a Nigerian prisoner, Mr. Victor Urhia,
to be transferred back home to complete his prison terms.
Urhia, who is serving terms on
drug-related offences, is said to be living on one kidney, having lost his
second kidney in the course of his imprisonment.
Mark also appealed to the First
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic,
Mr. Karel Scwarzenberg, to help prevail on the government to transfer Urhia to
complete his jail term in Nigeria.
