HAVE SEX IN A CAR IN A PUBLIC PLACE AND GO TO JAIL – LAGOS CP
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Ife Adewole
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal says the state criminal law prohibits engaging in sexual activities in a public place regardless of the act been consensual or not.
Imohimi said this in a counter statement to what a police spokesman Abayomi Shogunle, wrote on Tuesday on his twitter handle @YomiShogunle, that having sex in a car parked in a public place is not a crime if the “location is not a place of worship, parties are 18years and above, the act is consensual (agreed to by parties) and parties are of opposite sex.”
Abayomi asserted that persons who conform to the rules he mentioned cannot be arrested by the police, and added that if such persons are threatened with an arrest, they should lodge a complaint with the Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit of the Nigerian police.
In contrary, Imohimi on Wednesday said that such act is punishable under the state law.
“Section 134 (a) Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015 prohibits any indecent act in any public place without lawful excuse. The law holds that such a person is liable on conviction to 2 years imprisonment,”
“Section 136 of the Criminal Law of Lagos state, 2015 provides that any person who commits any act of gross indecency with another person in public commits an offence and liable on conviction to 3 years imprisonment.
“It must be noted that section 134 which deals with offences against morality particularly section 134 (a) have it that indecent act in a public place makes both parties engaging in the act liable to imprisonment for 2 years.
“Similarly, section 231 of the Criminal Code Act which is a Federal law and applicable in states other than the northern states where Penal Code is applicable also make Indecent Acts punishable.
In accordance with the law, the authorities of Lagos State Police Command thereby announces that the claim that sex in a car in a public place is not a crime in Nigeria is erroneous as the provisions of the Criminal Law of Lagos State prohibits such acts in public even if it is done with the consent of the other party.
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