Have Sex Inside Car, Go To Prison – Lagos CP Warns

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

The controversy over consensual sex between partners inside cars may have been laid to rest following the reaction of the police who declared that such act was a criminal offence and offenders will be arrested and jailed accordingly. 

P.M.EXPRESS reports that this was disclosed by the Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Chike Oti, on behalf of the Lagos State Commissiiner of Police, Mr. Imohimi Edgal.
Oti said that the attention of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Imohimi Edgal, has been drawn to an online publication credited to the @POLICENG_PCRRU to the effect that ” Sex in a car in a public place is not a crime in Nigeria provided;
1. Location is not a place of worship
2. Parties are 18yrs+
3. The act is consensual (agreed to by parties)
4. Parties are of opposite sex
If threatened with arrest over above, pls contact @POLICENG_PCRRU”

Sequel to the development, the Lagos CP has been advised by the Director of Public Prosecution of the State Ministry of Justice and the Legal Department of the State Police Command, Panti, Yaba, with relevant sections of the law as follows:
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 person is liable on conviction to 2 years imprisonment.