Reps propose six months imprisonment for crossdressers in Nigeria

A bill prohibiting crossdressing has been introduced to the Nationwide Assembly, with a six- month penal advanced term proposed for offenders, if sooner or later it’s passed into regulation.

The bill which modified into as soon as read on the flooring of the Residence of Representatives on Tuesday, modified into as soon as introduced by a member of the lower chamber, Umar Muda.

In accordance to the bill, “a person enticing in crossdressing is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment of 6 months or to a handsome of 5 hundred thousand naira.”

The bill is with the exemption of those the spend of it for entertainment.

If it scales thru the 2nd and third readings, and sooner or later signed into regulation, several famous crossdressers within the nation can also very neatly be having a peep at six months within the aid of bars.

The bill moreover seeks to amend the Same Intercourse Marriage (Prohibition) Act of 2013 by alongside with crossdressing as with out a doubt one of many offences beneath the Act.

Purchase that identical sex couples and jubilant persons in Nigeria face 14 years in penal advanced if convicted by a court docket.