Nollywood Actor, Uche Maduagwu who recently came out as a gay man has called on the US President, Joe Biden, to place sanctions on the Nigerian government over the 2014 anti-gay law. The law was signed by ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and it prohibits all forms of gay relationships in Nigeria. The law prescribes a 14-year jail term for anyone caught in an act of homosexuality.
Uche in his post asked President Biden to sanction the Nigerian government over the law. He also alleged that 40% of the current lawmakers and 12 state governors are "homosexuals." Read his post below
''Dear President JoeBiden i am proudly gay and I beg you to place sanctions on the Nigerian government for its inhuman laws against law-abiding homosexuals yet this same government pampers wicked fulani herdsmen who kidnap and cause trouble in southern part of Nigeria.
We are tired and scared despite the fact that more than 40% of current legislatures and over twelve governors are homosexuals in naija why the hypocrisy''
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In 1951, America imposed sanctions on Guatemala after their 25th president and revolutionary Juan Jacobo Arbenz Guzman embarked on a land reform exercise.
In 1951, the indigenous people of Guatemala took a brave stand and took their land, which had been shared among a few white families and USA and Anglo American Conglomerates. This move by the Guatemalans did not go down well with the Americans and their allies and hatched a propaganda blitz demonising President Juan Jacobo Arbenz Guzman.
This was followed by the imposition of economic sanctions and after 10 long years of sanctions and suffering the Guatemalan army ousted their president under the instigation of USA and their conglomerates.
The Guatemalan army thought that only their president was the problem and after eliminating him they believed that sanctions would be removed, but USA told them that the embargo could not be removed since, they, the army was part and parcel of the old regime (the same old Taxi with a new driver).
They were then told to hold so called free and fair elections in which they could contest with an opposition party, which was being sponsored by the USA. This opposition party was recruited from the indigenous people, but directed by the CIA under Dulles and George Bush senior. The elections came and the opposition won them, but still sanctions were not removed. The reason given by USA was that this party was a Red Indian party and it was, they, the indigenous people, who had robbed the whites and the USA conglomerates of their land.
So, what they needed to do was to reverse the land ownership rights to what they were on 31 December, 1950. This meant the return of land to the whites, before the sanctions could be removed. They agreed to do that, but still sanctions were not removed.
The next condition given was that the USA would give the money to the white farm owners, so that they could revive their farms which ha