In tragic if bizarre news, a Nigerian man convicted of murder claims he’s not gay after agreeing to have sex with a friend for ₦20,000. He claims instead he only wanted to rob the man of his money.
Angus Chukwuebuka Nwankw admitted he beat a Facebook friend to death in a robbery scheme gone wrong earlier this year. Nwankw had befriended the victim, identified only as Willswaggs, according to PinkNews. After more than a year of chatting on Facebook, Willswaggs offered Nwankw ₦20,000 for sex. He agreed.
At the same time, Nwankw contacted his brother Chidiebere Omeyi, who encouraged him to rob Willswaggs rather than go through with having sex. Nigeria has some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world, where anyone convicted of an offense can face prison and death.
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Nwankw & Omeyi plotted to lure Willswaggs to their home and steal the ₦20,000. “That fateful day, I told my younger brother about my visitor and what we planned to do,” Nwankw told reporters. “I told him that once he sees us move inside the room, he should bang into the room. So, when I went inside with my Facebook friend, my brother banged inside the room after 10 minutes.”
Two men were apprehended over the murder of a gay man who they said promised to give one of them N20,000 if he agrees to become his lover. pic.twitter.com/V99jNK5vkq
— ?Pink Panther? (@kito_diaries) March 9, 2020
“When my visitor realized that I planned with my brother to disrupt the lovemaking,” Nwankw continued, “he said he would not pay me the ₦20,000 unless we did what he came for. That led to quarrel and fight.”
Nwankw claims Willswaggs then tried to hit him with a stick. Nwankw then hit Willswaggs, who fell to the ground. Omeyi then burst into the room and held Willswaggs down while Nwankw beat him to death with the stick.
Rather than alert authorities, Nwankw and Omeyi dumped Willswaggs by the side of a brush path, though Nwankw later turned himself in for his crimes.
He further insisted that he cannot be gay or a prostitute, citing his plumbing apprenticeship as proof.
Chrisk
You are a really dense spammer to be advertising an orgy at this time. Jesus.
Chrisk
None of that made any sense to me. He’s paying him 20,000 to be his lover? I do find it chilling that the killers only concern is that no one thinks of them of being gay. Of coarse in Nigeria that might be a smart move.
JAWIWA
20,000 Naira (the Nigerian currency) equals $54 US.
DuMaurier
@JAWIWA Thank you. I was gonna say, a brief reference to the rate of exchange would’ve been helpful.
Donston
But this site sure as hell didn’t come for Nico Tortorella when he/them/they claimed that he couldn’t be “gay” because most of his friends are female. That’s just as ridiculous and offensive of statement. People stay obsessed with their ideas of what this or that identity means and obsessed with attaching to this or staying detached from that. And of course, mostly obsessed with why they are not “gay”. Identity politics continue to be problematic. At least this dude is young, stupid and desperate. So, it makes more sense. The overall story is sad and desperate.
Saps48
I’m not sure what you mean, Donston, since Nico Tortorella is a favorite punching bag around here…
Donston
I was talking about the site not the comment section. This site has persistently presented Nico as “solid ‘bi guy’ representation” despite them/they’s array of problematic quotes. What Nico said isn’t too far off from what these “gentleman” said. If anything, Aaron Carter is becoming this site’s punching bag since they will probably cool it with sh*tting on Aaron Schock now that he’s “out”. And honestly, what this site is doing with their Aaron Carter coverage is uncalled for and borderline bullying. I just call out the constant hypocrisy and favoritism.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I think he is a bit confused about the term “laying down some pipe”….
radiooutmike
Oh, snap!
CityguyUSA
haha
nitejonboy
Ha you beat me to it
Hussain-TheCanadian
So he killed a man over $50 bucks? Well Nigeria does have the death penalty so……………fck you too Angus.
Mr-DJ
More like he can’t be Gay because he is hetero-stupid.
theafricanwiththemouth
Lol, this made its way on here, good.
The incident while sad did lead to a 24hour+ twitter top trend of #endhomophobiainnigeria .
It was awesome dragging the evil homophobes in the country, but also painful seeing how bone deep the homophobia runs.
djmcgamester
The husbands of gay plumbers out there will be shocked to find they’re married to straight guys.
Man About Town
Although some of them might pull a Groucho and say “I knew it all along!”
Kangol2
Sounds like Mr. Nwankw was hetero-flexible before he and homophobic brother let greed turn them into heterosexual murderers. As @theafricanwiththemouth pointed out, the story did spark some vibrant condemnation of homophobia in Nigeria, underscoring that amid the societal anti-gay attitudes there are more than a few people there who do not hold such harshly homophobic attitudes.
Donston
How did you perceive that he’s “hetero-flexible” based off of this scant info? There really isn’t anything to make even the slightest supposition about his sense of self, his struggles or where he is in the romantic, sexual, affection, fascination, emotional fulfillment, relationship contentment spectrum. Furthermore, he told his homophobic brother about the dude’s advancements, which is a clue that he already had some schemes in his mind and wasn’t planning on following through with the initial deal. There isn’t anything here to illicit identity politicking.
I respect you Kangol, but you are definitely too focused on this identity and “community” stuff, even when it’s uncalled for. We both grown and we both know the variety of things going on out here. Let’s resist sounding like basic 20 something “queers” on social media.
Kangol2
@Donston, you wrote, “you are definitely too focused on this identity and ‘community’ stuff.” What “identity and ‘community’ stuff”? Who knows what his sexual identity is or how he feels about “romantic, sexual, affection, fascination, emotional fulfillment, relationship contentment spectrum”? What we do know, based on the article, is that he engaged in a conversation for a year with another man, a “friend” and not some random stranger, and agreed to have sex with him “for ?20,000.” My characterization of “hetero-flexible” was just that, a characterization, not an imputation of “identity and ‘community’ stuff,” and in fact probably adequately characterizes Nwankw, who, as far as we know, probably was not intending to rob Willswaggs at first, but, at his brother’s urging, turned what would have been a sexual assignation for money into a violent, murderous crime. Given the extremely homophobic context of Nigeria, he probably does characterize himself as straight and, with that plumber’s license, not a sex worker, despite agreeing to being paid for sex with another man. In any case, sexual identities and identifications and community understandings of them in Nigeria are different from those in the US, so rather than imputing more than necessary into my use of that term, just view it as a stand-in for whatever name one would label a man planning to have sex with a friend for money who then decides to murder that friend in part because his greedy brother decides it’s the thing to do, whatever his true sexual orientation and orientation, however he does or does not define it.
Donston
It’s impossible to know the type of Facebook correspondence they had. We don’t know if the dude who offered him this money was a legit “friend” or just a thirsty guy who stalked his page for a year. And if the plan really was to have sex with this dude for money then it’s unlikely that he’d tell his very homophobic, murder instincts having brother. That just doesn’t make any sense. From these details we really can’t come to any conclusions about this guy’s orientation. The dude could be homo in every way, hetero in every way or fit wherever within the orientation spectrum.
I just don’t care for how you try to force everyone into the “queer community”, often with very little details to come to your conclusions. Just like you tried to force Bad Bunny in. Just accept everyone has their own thing going on, and some people have their own particular struggles or journey. This story in particular doesn’t call for it.
winemaker
Let the no good the black bastard fry. Really who gives a rats ripe ass about this piece of SHIT in nigeria when we’re dealing with a viral pandemic here in the USA?
Kangol2
You can take your racist BS and stuff it up your @ss! Seriously, did you really have to spew hate about this man’s race? Do you do that about all the White racist monsters whose antigay actions and behavior regularly appear on this site? I doubt it. And just so you know, the “viral pandemic” has hit Nigeria now too. UGH!