Sex in a car is a serious crime, Lagos police counters Shogunle

It is an indecent act to have sex in a car in a public place within Lagos State, Police Commissioner, Imohimi Edgal, warned on Wednesday.
His warning followed the officer-in-charge, Police Complaint Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU), Abayomi Shogunle’s tweet on the same subject.

Shogunle (@YomiShogunle) was responding to a question by a Twitter user @Stanley_Moses13 who asked the police officer if sex in a car was a crime in the country. He tweeted that "sex in a public place isn't a crime in Nigeria provided that 1: location isn't a place of worship, 2: Parties are 18+, 3: the act is consensual 4: parties are of opposite sex.
But in a swift reaction, the Lagos Police Command warned that Sections 134 (a) and 136 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos, 2015, prohibits indecent act in any public place without lawful excuse.

In a statement by the spokesman for the command, Chike Oti, the police said anyone found guilty of such an act was liable to two or three years in prison.

He said: “The Lagos State Commissioner of Police has been advised by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Ministry of Justice and the Legal Department of the Command 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, also makes indecent acts punishable.

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