Jonathan pardons homosexual rapist, triggering fresh controversy

President Goodluck Jonathan enters the second week of his controversial pardon set to contend with a flurry of new issues and criticism from many who are trying to make sense of his reasoning for letting off former army Major, Bello Magaji, convicted and sentenced to five years jail term for sodomy, another name for homosexuality, by a military Court [General Court Martial] in 1996.
Mr. Magaji, a former military police officer attached to the Lagos Garrison Command, was convicted for serial homosexual intercourse with four students of the Army Cantonment Boys Secondary School in Ojo Cantonment in Lagos. The teenagers were Mohammed, Joseph, Emmanuel, and Isaac, according to court records obtained by PREMIUM TIMES. We are witholding the surnames names of the victims since they were teenagers at the time of the incident. Download full judgment here.
The documents spoke of how Mr. Magaji intoxicated the young men, all from poor background, with alcohol, making them dizzy and then forcing them to have homosexual intercourse. He would then offer them token financial inducement to meet family obligations.
One of the teenagers recalled that: “He said I shouldn’t worry that I should go and bath. After my bath he gave me N1500.00k and said I should give Oscar N500.00k for bringing me. Then when I came out I gave Oscar N500.00k and it remained N1000.00k. Out of the N1000.00k Oscar collected N100.00k and it remained N900.00k. From the N900.00k, I bought things paid small small credit I was owing and bought school uniform for myself.”
Mr. Bello Magaji whose reasons for making the list remains puzzling, was one of about a dozen convicts that earned President Jonathan’s pardon Tuesday after a Council of State meeting in Abuja along with the president’s disgraced former boss, Mr. DSP Alamieyeseigha, a one-time governor in Bayelsa State where the president served as his deputy.
Mr. Magaji’s pardon, coming at a time that legislative and religious institutions in the country are bracing for a stormy confrontation with the local and international gay and lesbian communities is bound to shock many observers of the Jonathan presidency.
In November 2011, the Nigerian Senate passed a stunning anti-gay legislation which criminalizes homosexuality and gay marriage with a 14-year jail term. Although the move drew sharp international rebuke from both western and American political leaders, the Senate President, Mr. David Mark, in February this year, went ahead to defend the move, promising a delighted conference of Catholic bishops that the senate will lead the fight against homosexuality in the country. Mr. Mark was however at the meeting where Mr.Magagi got his pardon but was not on record to have uttered a voice against the move.

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I wish all that milked our country dry would forgive us and return all the treasuries back to us.
Just a wish!

This man wants' us to stone him to death before april!

It seems people from Bayelsa are having low IQ. See Jona embarrassing himself, I don't think he will win 2015 unless by rigging cos his approval rating is very low

NB: jonas boy Gov Dickson is seeking amnesty for cultist another scam in the offing

Maybe mr president drink panadol and the resultant effect is pardon pardon to rats and snakes

It's open season for pardons.

Jonathan is not contesting for president in 2015. However his position is not making it better for PDP if only APC can get their act right so that we can kick PDP out of power. The party produces useless candidates.

Eyaa! Clifford Orji should not have died. He too would have received pardon.

For me o,am aganst this move by GEJ cause i hate anything that has to do with homo.

Naija don tire me o...abeg where i fit follow go somalia

A joke I posted elsewhere:

Alams rejects presidential pardon! He says it's an insult that GEJ announced it over the air without personally consulting him. "I am his political benefactor,
and he cannot just pardon me like that over the air like I am an ordinary common criminal. Even if I stole money, I am a former Governor and I expect some personal courtesy'. Reuben Abati has quickly been dispatched to Bayelsa to express the Presidents apology for the oversight. His initial protests at the assignment were silenced when the part of his contract where he signed to undertake 'any task the president ask me to do...no matter how humiliating' is pointed out to him.

As he is leaving the office, GEJ calls him back and asks him to take out the trash.

I guess if this is the one that the USA initially heard before Alamesiaeaye's pardon( F* the spelling of his name), Bill Gates and Obama will see it as a welcome development....

Well... make i no talk sha.

President Goodluck Jonathan enters the second week of his controversial pardon set to contend with a flurry of new issues and criticism from many who are trying to make sense of his reasoning for letting off former army Major, Bello Magaji, convicted and sentenced to five years jail term for sodomy, another name for homosexuality, by a military Court [General Court Martial] in 1996.
Mr. Magaji, a former military police officer attached to the Lagos Garrison Command, was convicted for serial homosexual intercourse with four students of the Army Cantonment Boys Secondary School in Ojo Cantonment in Lagos. The teenagers were Mohammed, Joseph, Emmanuel, and Isaac, according to court records obtained by PREMIUM TIMES. We are witholding the surnames names of the victims since they were teenagers at the time of the incident. Download full judgment here.
The documents spoke of how Mr. Magaji intoxicated the young men, all from poor background, with alcohol, making them dizzy and then forcing them to have homosexual intercourse. He would then offer them token financial inducement to meet family obligations.
One of the teenagers recalled that: “He said I shouldn’t worry that I should go and bath. After my bath he gave me N1500.00k and said I should give Oscar N500.00k for bringing me. Then when I came out I gave Oscar N500.00k and it remained N1000.00k. Out of the N1000.00k Oscar collected N100.00k and it remained N900.00k. From the N900.00k, I bought things paid small small credit I was owing and bought school uniform for myself.”
Mr. Bello Magaji whose reasons for making the list remains puzzling, was one of about a dozen convicts that earned President Jonathan’s pardon Tuesday after a Council of State meeting in Abuja along with the president’s disgraced former boss, Mr. DSP Alamieyeseigha, a one-time governor in Bayelsa State where the president served as his deputy.
Mr. Magaji’s pardon, coming at a time that legislative and religious institutions in the country are bracing for a stormy confrontation with the local and international gay and lesbian communities is bound to shock many observers of the Jonathan presidency.
In November 2011, the Nigerian Senate passed a stunning anti-gay legislation which criminalizes homosexuality and gay marriage with a 14-year jail term. Although the move drew sharp international rebuke from both western and American political leaders, the Senate President, Mr. David Mark, in February this year, went ahead to defend the move, promising a delighted conference of Catholic bishops that the senate will lead the fight against homosexuality in the country. Mr. Mark was however at the meeting where Mr.Magagi got his pardon but was not on record to have uttered a voice against the move.

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ypzilanti: Jonathan pardons homosexual rapist, triggering fresh controversy

President Goodluck Jonathan enters the second week of his controversial pardon set to contend with a flurry of new issues and criticism from many who are trying to make sense of his reasoning for letting off former army Major, Bello Magaji, convicted and sentenced to five years jail term for sodomy, another name for homosexuality, by a military Court [General Court Martial] in 1996.
Mr. Magaji, a former military police officer attached to the Lagos Garrison Command, was convicted for serial homosexual intercourse with four students of the Army Cantonment Boys Secondary School in Ojo Cantonment in Lagos. The teenagers were Mohammed, Joseph, Emmanuel, and Isaac, according to court records obtained by PREMIUM TIMES. We are witholding the surnames names of the victims since they were teenagers at the time of the incident. Download full judgment here.
The documents spoke of how Mr. Magaji intoxicated the young men, all from poor background, with alcohol, making them dizzy and then forcing them to have homosexual intercourse. He would then offer them token financial inducement to meet family obligations.
One of the teenagers recalled that: “He said I shouldn’t worry that I should go and bath. After my bath he gave me N1500.00k and said I should give Oscar N500.00k for bringing me. Then when I came out I gave Oscar N500.00k and it remained N1000.00k. Out of the N1000.00k Oscar collected N100.00k and it remained N900.00k. From the N900.00k, I bought things paid small small credit I was owing and bought school uniform for myself.”
Mr. Bello Magaji whose reasons for making the list remains puzzling, was one of about a dozen convicts that earned President Jonathan’s pardon Tuesday after a Council of State meeting in Abuja along with the president’s disgraced former boss, Mr. DSP Alamieyeseigha, a one-time governor in Bayelsa State where the president served as his deputy.
Mr. Magaji’s pardon, coming at a time that legislative and religious institutions in the country are bracing for a stormy confrontation with the local and international gay and lesbian communities is bound to shock many observers of the Jonathan presidency.
In November 2011, the Nigerian Senate passed a stunning anti-gay legislation which criminalizes homosexuality and gay marriage with a 14-year jail term. Although the move drew sharp international rebuke from both western and American political leaders, the Senate President, Mr. David Mark, in February this year, went ahead to defend the move, promising a delighted conference of Catholic bishops that the senate will lead the fight against homosexuality in the country. Mr. Mark was however at the meeting where Mr.Magagi got his pardon but was not on record to have uttered a voice against the move.

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please, is it true that 1person in every 4 people in Benue has HIV & Benue state has been declared the official HIV/AIDS capital of Nigeria.
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ypzilanti: A joke I posted elsewhere:

Alams rejects presidential pardon! He says it's an insult that GEJ announced it over the air without personally consulting him. "I am his political benefactor,
and he cannot just pardon me like that over the air like I am an ordinary common criminal. Even if I stole money, I am a former Governor and I expect some personal courtesy'. Reuben Abati has quickly been dispatched to Bayelsa to express the Presidents apology for the oversight. His initial protests at the assignment were silenced when the part of his contract where he signed to undertake 'any task the president ask me to do...no matter how humiliating' is pointed out to him.

As he is leaving the office, GEJ calls him back and asks him to take out the trash.

You called this a joke You need to take your medications

I pray that they should not emback on their misdeeds.

Goodluck Jonathan should get his brain checked before he does more harm to this country.

All hail Mr Pardon!!

Tafa balogun should also be pardon

Maybe he is trying to get back in the graces of the US. Afterall, they threatened to cease giving aid to Nigeria when a bill was passed to BAN homosexuality. I wish I could see the content of this man's brain.

just passing..

dedons: Naija don tire me o...abeg where i fit follow go somalia

please ask those boko boys.

Apparently this scumbag of a President is mentally unbalanced.

GEJ the retardee and the release of fresh air from the presidential account. What a shameless way of promoting criminality.

please, is it true that 1person in every 4 people in Benue has HIV & Benue state has been declared the official HIV/AIDS capital of Nigeria.

Unfortunately, yes!

I would not be surprised, if he gives boko haram presidential pardon...na wa o oga Jona you are indeed a ret-a-rdeen...SMH

Wish I had a magic wand dat could make 2015 tomorrow

GEJ just has a good and forgiving heart. That's all!