The United State government has threatened to place sanctions on Nigeria owing to the new Bill baning same sex relations in the country! The sanction would include a reduction in its support for HIV/AIDS and anti-malaria programmes in Nigeria. This was made known yesterday Jan. 20th by the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. James Entwistle. Mr Entwistle said;
"The issue of same-sex marriage was very controversial all over the world, including within the United States where 17 states out of 50 had endorsed it, but others still reject its legality. The issue that we see and I am speaking as a friend of Nigeria is that as I read the bill, it looks to me that it puts significant restrictions on the freedoms of assembly and expression; in my opinion which applies especially in advanced democracies, once government begins to say something in these areas, freedom no longer applies. It seems to me that this is a very worrisome precedent.”