On Friday, owner of Vintage Hotel at Owode Onirin area of Lagos State, Chief Patrick Okeze was arraigned before a Yaba Magistrate Court over alleged aiding and promoting same sex erotic activities and gay club in his hotel.
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Chief Okeze was arraigned alongside two of his workers, Sunday Isang and Bright Oba.
The trio were accused by Lagos State Government of encouraging young men and minors to perpetrate homosexual act in Vintage Hotel contrary to the provisions of Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act of 2014.
On Thursday, the state government had arraigned 28 adults and 12 minors before Yaba and Ebute-Metta Magistrate Courts respectively for engaging in homosexuality using the said hotel.
56-year-old Okeze and his two staff were arraigned on a one-count charge.
The Chief Magistrate Adewale Ojo after listening to the prosecution and the defence teams refused to admit the accused to bail. Instead he ordered their remand and adjourned the matter to September 4, 2017.
