“Adultery Is A Crime Liable To 3 Years Imprisonment” – Police Warns

Authorized police officer, Aliyu Giwa, has warned that adultery is a prison offence and attracts a punishment of two years’ imprisonment.

The customary Lagos Tell Police PRO made this disclosure by the usage of his Twitter form out. Per him, when tried, anyone stumbled on culpable of adultery would face a 2-year reformatory term or pay a magnificent.

“Carry out you perceive? Adultery is a crime liable to 2 years imprisonment! The ‘PENAL CODE LAW’ allotment 387 & 388 order: 387. Adultery by a particular person 388.

“Adultery by a Woman Whoever, being a particular person/girl self-discipline to any ragged law by which extra-marital s*xual inter-course is identified as a prison offence, has s*xual intercourse with a one who’s now not and whom he knows or has reason to imagine is now not his wife/husband, such s*xual intercourse now not amounting to the offence of rape, is responsible of the offence of adultery and will seemingly be punished with imprisonment for a term that might per chance perhaps per chance per chance furthermore prolong to two years or with a magnificent or with every.” He wrote on Twitter.

A while ago, Giwa warned that any girl who attempts to win an abortion is responsible of a felony and liable to a penal advanced sentence of as a lot as seven years.

The customary Deputy Public Relatives Officer of the Lagos Tell Police Dispute confirmed this on Twitter on Tuesday, June 21.

He added that anyone who attempts to reason a woman to miscarry her diminutive one is liable to imprisonment for 14 years.

He extra added that supplying medicines or devices to facilitate abortion is a crime punishable by as a lot as 3 years in penal advanced.