The Lagos State Police Command has described as “misplaced” a tweet credited to the head of the Police Complaint Rapid Response Unit, Abayomi Shogunle, who said that having sex in a car is not criminal. The Command spokesperson, Chike Oti, said it was indecent to have sex in a car in public place, and that it’s not only in Lagos, but also in the entire country.

He said that under Lagos laws, couples are liable to between two- to three-year imprisonment upon conviction.

Shogunle in a tweet, had said, “Sex in a car in a public place is not a crime in Nigeria provided;

Location is not a place of worship
Parties are 18yrs+
The act is consensual (agreed to by parties)
Parties are of opposite sex
If threatened with arrest over above, pls contact @POLICENG_PCRRU.”

But Oti said the state Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, had received legal advice on the matter.

He said, “The CP Lagos 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 two 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 three years’ imprisonment.

“It must be noted that Section 134 which deals with offences against morality, particularly section 134 (a), has it that indecent act in a public place makes both parties engaging in the act liable to imprisonment for two years.

“In the same vein, 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.

“Going forward, the authorities of the Lagos State Police Command hereby declare that the assertion that sex in a car in a public place is not a crime in Nigeria is misplaced, as the provisions of the Criminal Law of Lagos State prohibit such acts in public, even if it is done with consent of the other party.

“To this end, the Commissioner of Police, CP Edgal Imohimi, wants Lagosians to be guided by relevant sections of the law against such acts.”

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Popos who enforce laws and dunno jack shiit bout the laws

This news is doing me somehow

I love it in d car BIKO wt rose perfume fragrance everywie ..

If no rose air freshener in d car ,sweetie ...I WL OVER VOMIT IN UR DAMN DICK ...YESSS !

See them, SMH

Hmmn, this their confusion is confusing.

CONFUSED IDIOTS

What is all this

But, it still can be argue if car is public though.

The legal question here is, what is legally considered to be public? You might say, if it is protected from public view via e.g. tinted windows or curtain and no one outside can see the act, then it is not public...but, does that mean that, if am having sex in house, which is technically known as private, but my neighbor can see the act through my glass window or half closed curtains are we liable to be charged for indecent exposure?

Note that vehicles even though they might be on public roads are granted the same privacy as homes e.g. you need a search warrant or a probable cause to enter and search someone’s car just like you need one to search their home...Also, many people’s vehicle double as their home.

lol

I’m not surprised

Two sets of laws for the rich and the poor in Nigeria

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OK o.
Let's hear from the IG himself now.

But how does
"inside one's private car conotes public place?"
Just because an idiot choose to look into ur private space, that automatically makes it a public place?
In other words having sex in one's glass house can also be termed as public indecency?

It's wrong.. ..... Correct force man

About time.

The CP quoted/cited parts of the law. What did Shogunle quote? His sense I guess?

What a somersault. Lol.

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what section of the constitution is breached

Public indecency I guess especially if the car is parked in a public place and not ur private property bt shud be a minor offense.

Thank God this has been clarified by Nigerian Police. Common sense and rule of law have prevailed.

Personally vindicated in the legal and moral positions I stubbornly took when the argument was on yesterday.

This is more like it.

See as the man go disgrace himself, him no even sabi law

Sex has finished this world

Yeye confused lots.

Instead wey dem suppose settle down cool their empty brains and study the statutes when dem dey school, na how to close eye identify or differentiate the different denominations of naira notes dem go study.

Yeye people

Na dis shogunle guy dey scatter all those police guragura vans because him dey cable well well for motor.

Of course it is a crime !
Especially when the car is not tinted !

Hian! Na which kind wahala be this? Anyways, since the spokesperson of police didn't know, the citizen could claim ignorance too