LGBTQ: Family seeks support of Human Rights over rearrested daughter

The family of Jessica Joseph, a three hundred student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, has written a Save Our Soul (SOS) letter, seeking the intervention of a human rights organization, Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA).

A petition written to MRAPA by the Joseph’s family and signed by Chief Duru Joseph, copies of which was made available to newsmen in Awka, Anambra State, on Friday, described the victims’ detention over a case since September 2023 by the Zone 13 Police Headquarters as unlawful and show of force.

While narrating the ordeal for their daughter in a petition sent to the Human Rights Group, Chief Duru Joseph claimed that Jessica Joseph was arrested by the Police in connection with a case of bisexuality and belonging to the LGBTQ club.

“We are pleading with your Human Rights Group to help us intervene in the case concerning our daughter, who was released by Court Order early this year but rearrested again by the Police because they could not find her bisexual partner, Ijeoma Anastecia Chukwuekezie, who they claimed escaped from their custody.”

“Police from Zone 13 Anambra surprisingly came to invite our daughter, Jessica Joseph, for questioning but refused to let her go for the past one week. We want to use this medium to seek your help by using your vibrant platform to get our daughter out of this Police using force against us,” the petition reads in part.