By Chrysanthus Ikeh
A monument erected in honour of late Apple founder, Steve Jobs, has been dismantled after Apple CEO, Tim Cook who succeeded him, revealed he is gay.
The two metre high monument, in the shape of an iPhone which was placed outside a college in St. Petersburg, by a Russian group of companies ZEFS in January 2013, was taken down on Friday, October 31, 2014, in other to abide to the Russian federal law of combating gay propaganda.
In a statement, Russian group of companies called ZEFS said: ‘The memorial had been removed on Friday the day after Mr Cook announced he was homosexual.’
The late Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. In October 2003, he was diagnosed of cancer which he battled for 8 years before he died at his Palo Alto, California home on October 5, 2011.
Watch video of Russians bringing down the monument below:
