The hostility felt towards homosexuals in Nigeria was publicly displayed today as a man alleged to be gay was beaten to a pulp in Ogun state.

The victim simply identified as Sadiq was badly beaten at Kotodayo Community in the Ota area of the State.

According to reports, the assault upon Sadiq began after his friend, Ibrahim (surname withheld), allegedly raised the alarm declaring that his male organ had disappeared. Ibrahim said that Sadiq had visited him the night before and began to have sex with him in the middle of the night.

The owner of the one-room apartment where the incident took place lives and works in Lagos and only visits during the weekends. Ibrahim is a squatter in the house and he claimed that it was the first time Sadiq would be visiting him. He also claimed that he and Sadiq have been friends for some time but he never knew that his friend was gay.

Sadiq, in a confessional statement to local vigilantes at the scene of the incident, said he has been homosexual for the past three years.

According to PM News report:

He denied snatching his friend’s male organ, but said he had engaged only men in sex since then and further indicted a prophet whose white garment church is within the community as the one who prepared the concoction with which he engages in the act.

However, the prophet, who was invited by the vigilantes, denied the allegation.

He said he had known Sadiq as one who never chased after women and did not know that the man was gay.

Neighbours told P.M.NEWS that the owner of the one-room apartment where the incident occurred lives and works in Lagos and only visits the place at weekends.

Sadiq was later whisked away by the vigilantes after much plea to stop beating him was rebuffed by the people of the area.

The Nigerian Senate recently passed a bill approving a 14-year jail term for homosexuals.