“I became aware of my HIV status in 2014 at the age of 18. My parents are not aware of my status because I don’t want them to start thinking about my problem. It is my problem and not theirs. From my estimation, I think I became positive through sexual intercourse.
I became bi-sexual by force and not by choice, because I would need to get married one day and have children because of my mum and dad.
“Even if I don’t get married, someone will get pregnant for me. If I am in another country where there is understanding, I will not be bi-sexual. I am gay. Nobody initiated me into it. It has been in me right from the time I started having feelings for the opposite sex; I also started having feelings for people of same sex too. So, I started practising homosexuality with my neighbours. Whenever we were doing drama as children, I would be the wife and another boy would be the husband. We would start touching from there.
“I had my first homosexual relationship, have had many other same sex partners thereafter. I was already into it while I was in secondary school, but we never went beyond touching each other. But when I left school, I started having intercourse and became HIV-positive.”
Speaking on his challenge as an HIV victim, Onoja said:
“The challenge I have is that I have to hide to take my medication in the house so that my parents would not know about it. I am also very much afraid about the issue of donors withdrawing. If that happens, what would happen to people like us? The government should see how they can work with the funders
“I have colleagues who have died but I feel that they died because they wanted to. This is because they refused to go for treatment. Others were not taking their medications regularly and these are medications that you must take every day and at a particular time. If you stop taking them, the virus will get stronger and compound your health condition. Some of our colleagues still engage in unprotected sex. “
It was another disturbing revelation when our correspondent spoke with Robinson who unequivocally declared that he was gay.
He said:
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