Archbishop of Jos defends gays, asks FG to stop punishing them

The Archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, has
condemned the criminalization of gays in Nigeria.
Speaking with the Vatican's weekly publication,
The Tablet , on Wednesday October 8th,
Archbishop Kaigama said the catholic church
does not support the criminalizing of people due
to their different sexual orientation and urged the
federal government to stop punishing gay people.
"We are not supporting the criminalization of
people with different sexual orientations. We
would defend any person with homosexual
orientation who is being harassed, who is
being imprisoned, who is being punished.
The federal government may want to punish
them, we don't. In fact, we will tell the
government to stop punishing those