Sex without wife’s consent can attract life imprisonment- Lagos DPP warns
Sex without wife’s consent can attract life imprisonment- Lagos DPP warns
The Lagos nation authorities has warned husbands against forcing their wives into having sex besides their consent, mentioning that such conduct ought to entice life imprisonment under the state’s criminal legal guidelines.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Lagos country Ministry of Justice, Dr. Babajide Martins, gave the warning even as talking on the commencement of the Lagos nation home and Sexual Violence awareness Month.
Responding to a question on whether or not a married girl can sue her husband for rape for having intercourse with her without consent, Martins defined that whilst Nigerian regulation does no longer comprehend marital rape, the Lagos kingdom criminal regulation gives for the offence of sexual assault by penetration, which includes a most sentence of existence imprisonment.
He stated that a husband who forcefully has sexual sex along with his wife after she has withheld consent might be prosecuted beneath that provision.
“Any guy that feels due to the fact he paid his spouse’s dowry, nobody can assignment him for domestic violence, the spouse need to record this kind of man to the home and Sexual Violence organization,” he said.
Martins similarly defined that the law distinguishes between rape and sexual assault by penetration within the context of marriage.
“underneath Lagos kingdom crook regulation, a man cannot be accused of raping his spouse if they are together and are in appropriate terms. but, as soon as there may be an issue among them and the spouse refuses to have sex with him, the husband can’t pressure her. If the husband forces her and the wife reports him, we are able to not price him for rape however for sexual assault via penetration, and the punishment is existence imprisonment” he stated
The DPP advised women experiencing any shape of domestic or sexual violence to file such incidents to the domestic and Sexual Violence company for appropriate criminal movement.
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