Oyogist has learned that a Gay Nigerian man Identified as Victor Iringere,has narrated How his family tried everything possible to stop him from being gay.
Victor said he had to seek assylum in the United Kingdom, highlighting his ‘traumatic all-night exorcisms and discrimination as he got chased by the police in Lagos after he was caught kissing his boyfriend in the car.”
According to Victor, “When two men are caught together, they’d be beaten up by a mob, set ablaze, burnt alive. I was sure they were going to catch us,”
Victor said growing up in Nigeria was quite devastating for him, as homosexuality has been labelled a crime in the country coupled with his strict religious family who believe it is a sin, he was left with no alternative, than to seek asylum in the United Kingdom.
Victor is now happily married living with his husband in Birmingham and fulfilled in his ‘wonderful’ work at Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre. ‘It’s given a purpose to my struggle,’ says the Refugee Week ambassador.
