Kevin, a 26-year-old attorney in Abuja, talks of themselves as a belated bloomer. “It required a long time on the way out to me, subsequently my pals. And even prolonged to own good friends inside [gay]community. Making Sure That might be exactly why this happened certainly to me.”

Just the past year, Kevin sign up to Grindr, the dating app. The man started talking-to an individual and after a couple of weeks, they made wants to fulfill. Kevin’s time wanted him to a friend’s residence.

“I caused to [the quarters] and satisfied his own friend — that the man told me was homosexual too and so I believed at ease with your. The good friend required around and then thing I acknowledged, simple supposed day and another chap arrived on the scene and began pressing myself around contacting me a bunch of name. That they had branches nonetheless can’t use it on me, luckily. Just dangers and kicks. They made me shift N80 000 (R3 600) to the accounts consequently knocked me personally around.

“I nevertheless thought I was lucky simply because they could have referred to as neighbours on myself and possibly lynched myself or something, or extorted a bigger sum or taken my car or something.”

Kevin got merely recently been kitoed.

‘‘I’m wanting to gamble anything that I’m maybe not the most important individual obtained performed this to,’’ he or she stated. ‘‘They needs originated some excitement in conquering my own gay buttocks but it was actually this money they were after. And they’ll repeat in my opinion as well as other queer guy. It’s a hustle. it is like fraudulence but inclined to individuals in the LGBTQ+ [lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender plus] community.’’

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