Across Nigeria, a pattern of organized predatory violence known as 'Kito' has claimed lives, extorted livelihoods, and silenced its victims through fear — yet the laws needed to prosecute these crimes already exist. A campaign group affiliated with the Bisi Alimi Foundation is not asking Nigeria to change its statutes, but to honor them: to apply equally, to every citizen, protections against blackmail, assault, and unlawful detention that are already written into the criminal code. What stands between the law and justice is not legal ambiguity but institutional indifference and the stigma tha
Nigerian rights group demands prosecution of anti-LGBTIQ+ violence under existing laws
Multiple documented cases of violence including murders: transgender woman Ifeanyi Chukwu-Agah Benedict killed in 2024 and 23-year-old Hilary Ikechukwu Emereole murdered in 2025 after being lured and assaulted.