Husband who forces wife into sex risks life imprisonment – Lagos Govt

The Lagos State Government has warned joined men against forcing their wives into intersexual relations without consent, stressing that perpetrators could look prosecution nether the state’s transgression law.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, successful the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, Dr Babajide Martins, gave the informing on Tuesday during a property briefing successful Lagos.

Martins spoke astatine a forum organised by the Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency, DSVA, to people the commencement of the state’s Domestic and Sexual Violence Awareness Month.

Responding to questions connected whether a joined pistillate could question ineligible redress if her hubby had intersexual intercourse with her without her consent, the DPP said consent remained essential.

He explained that portion national instrumentality does not recognise forced intersexual intercourse betwixt spouses arsenic marital rape, Lagos State instrumentality contains provisions nether which a hubby could beryllium prosecuted for intersexual battle by penetration.

According to Martins, the offence carries a maximum condemnation of beingness imprisonment.

He stressed that matrimony does not springiness a hubby the close to unit his woman into intersexual relations, peculiarly erstwhile s...