The spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has stated that there is no law in Nigeria that suggests crossdressers should be arrested. He emphasized that crossdressing is not yet considered a crime in the country and that credible evidence is required for prosecution.
Spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), ACP OLumuyiwa Adejobi has said that there is no provision in the law suggesting that crossdressers in Nigeria should be arrested. Amid some debates all over social media involving crossdressing and sexuality, the police imagemaker said the crime for which people get arrested has more to do with natural offences or crimes against nature.
, ACP Adejobi opined on Tuesday that certain cases are hard to prove without evidence and as such, many who cross-dress are often accused of other crimes and until prove is found, these“I have not read anywhere that crossdressing is an offence in Nigeria…. Let us be reasonable, you cannot arrest somebody you want to prosecute without having credible evidence and as such, crossdressing is not yet a crime in Nigeria.“Some of them that are into cross dressing, the allegation is that they are into something else, that’s where the problem lies. We need to have enough proof that they are actually into ‘that
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