Seeking asylum based on my sexual orientation
My Travel Story
Incidents and circumstances that show why its reasonable for me to Fear returning to my home country, was when i was first attacked, immediately after graduating from secondary school , i started working at a Burger shop to pay for my way through university, granted i received some financial help from my father, mother, uncle.....One of the Big looking guys at where i worked by name Kayode , approached me and said how come they do not see any girls with me, that am i Gay , i was silent about it and i did not say anything in reply to him. Then one night after my shift as i stepped outside to take some fresh air, i was attacked by 3 Big large black guys, they beat up so bad, that i was afraid to come to work the next day, so when i came to work the next day , we get talking and hanging out with them again, one of the nights that we went to the beach, i had heterosexual encounter, which made them happy, i had to do it as a coping mechanism to avoid future attacks.
When i finally decided to leave the country, was when my mother told me one night as i was watching TV, on her way going out to groceries, as we were having small talks, she looked at me and said “ i can’t kill my own son” and then she mumbled and left the house. These really scared me, because we leave together in a 2 Bedroom Apartment, where she sleeps in the room close to the Entrance of the apartment, while i sleep in the second room facing the the backyard , without any emergency door, just windows with permanent metal security Bars, so i can not run out of my room in cases of emergency. These caused me many sleepless nights , many Nightmares, on occasions i would lie awake and i pretend to be sleeping, then i would notice her peeping into my room, and unfortunately for her, i would see her, peeping into my room, her motives i do know these went on for about 3 – 6 times, after these incidences i knew they were serious about killing me on the grounds of my sexual orientation, that’s when i decided i can not be safe in my country, to flee , i booked a flight ticket to Barbados , Visa Free for my country, where i transited at New York – JFK John F. Kennedy International , an acquaintance helped me to afford a plane ticket and i left my country on .............
On the i changed planes in Lisbon Portela and arrived in the united states at JFK John F.Kennedy international on ..........................
In Lagos Nigeria, Homosexual activity in Lagos is illegal ( other penalty ) Male Homosexuality is punishable by 14 Years in Prison under the Nigerian Penal codes Laws.
What i have been through has affected me both Physically and Psychologically, i have nightmares about what happened to me and i feel scared, depressed, when i see police officers because of what happened to me at the police station in my country, unfortunately i lost many of the pictures of torture while moving house , several strokes of cane lashes all over my back picures, causing excruciating pain, the matter was reported to the police , but no action was taken.
Ever Since the attack i have had nightmares about it , these happened about 2 – 3 times a week , it is still happening.
Relocating internally , why i can’t internally relocate in my home country to avoid been armed is because the secret police would always find me and harm me.
In November 2002/2003 academic sessions at the student domitory at the university where i studied, i was having a conversation with a friend who happened to be Gay, i can’t remember is name anymore because i was so terrified , about 5 – 10 guys huge and big in appearance approached my friend pushed him to the side and one of them accused him of touching is genitals while he was sleeping or resting not really sure, that resulted in the rest of the guys beating him into a pulp were about throwing him down from a 4 story building , were it not for the interventions of the campus security chiefs about 3 of the university security at the campus they would thrown him down from three story building and killed him, these terified me , throughout the rest of my 4 – 5 years in the university of lagos , Akoka Yaba , Lagos state. Three of the men were carrying sticks , they hit me with the sticks repeatedly including on my arm , legs, and legs , i don’t know how many times they hit me , but it was a lot , atlist 20, they hit me once with a stick at the back of my head, when i fell to the ground, one of them kicked me twice in my stomach , the beating lasted may be 2 - 3 minutes, the men finally left , when i told them i was heterosexual , to safe myself from further beating.The Doctors did an X-Ray and confirmed that my forearm was broken , i had to wear a sling for 2 months afterwards.
On May 10, 2003 , two men came up to me right after i left the supermarket . I recognized one of them from my university . I did not know him personally, i had just seen him before and my friend had told me that these man was believed to be a member of a religious extremist group. When they approached that man told me that i was one of those people who does not respect religion. Then the other one said , we have certain ways of dealing with people like that.
Then that man hit me in the stomach two times with his fist. The man i recognized slapped me in the face with an open hand and said be careful, about what you say about our religion or next-time it will be worse , then they walked away.
My stomach hurt for the next two days , also i had a red mark on my face from the slap for a full day and my face was sore for couple days”.
My Mother called me around the second week of june2020, and told me that a few days earlier, four men wearing police uniforms had come to my mother’s rented self contain apartment , my mother told me that when she answered the door , the men asked for me by name and they told my mom to tell me to report to the police station immediately, because i needed to pay for my support of LGBTQi community, the men left after saying these according to my mum.
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