HAVING SEX IN A CAR IN PUBLIC NOT A CRIME, SAYS POLICE
HAVING
SEX IN A CAR IN PUBLIC NOT A CRIME, SAYS POLICE
Nigerian Police on
Monday said that having sex in a car at a public place is not a crime and would
not amount to arrest if done by persons within adult age in the country.
Police spokesman
Abayomi Shogunle made the disclosure
while responding to a question by a Nigerian Twitter user.
The Twitter user
@Stanley_Moses13 asked, “Oga Yomi Shogunle please is it a crime to have sex in
your car?”
Shogunle said it is
not an offence provided the location is not a place of worship and the persons
involved are of opposite sex that is 18 years or older.
Currently, Nigerian
law prohibits the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual,
queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual) community.
“Sex in a car in a public place is not a crime
in Nigeria provided; location is not a place of worship; parties are 18 yrs+;
the act is consensual (agreed to by parties) [and] parties are of opposite
sex,” Shogunle said.
He insisted that
persons who conform to the rules he mentioned cannot be arrested by the police.
He said if such
persons are threatened with an arrest, they should lodge a complaint with the
Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit of the Nigerian police.
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