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鈥淭here are gangs who鈥檝e realised that gay people cannot go to the police so that makes them 鈥榞ood victims鈥� for blackmail... Everybody you speak to has been kitoed or knows someone has been kitoed. And that鈥檚 just how rampant it is.鈥�

Do you know what the word Kito means? Or Kitorist? Or Kitoed?

In Nigeria it鈥檚 come to mean when people, usually gangs, use online dating apps to entrap gay people - and then blackmail them. It often involves the victim being attacked and humiliated on film 鈥� with the footage then shared on social media.

But queer activists are attempting to fight back.

For Africa Daily, Mpho Lakaje speaks to Ian Wafula, the reporter on a 大象传媒 Africa Eye documentary on the subject, as well as to Nigerian Queer Activist, Walter.

To watch the full documentary search for Kito: Blackmailing LGBT Nigeria on the 大象传媒 News Africa YouTube page.