'Adultery is a crime liable to 2 years imprisonment' - Ex-Police PRO

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A former Lagos Police PRO, Aliyu Giwa, has warned that adultery is a criminal offence that attracts a punishment of 2 years in prison.

He tweeted: "Do you know? Adultery is a crime liable to 2 years imprisonment! The 'PENAL CODE LAW' section 387 & 388 state: 387, Adultery by a man. 388, Adultery by a Woman.

"Whoever, being a man/woman subject to any customary law in which extra-marital sexual inter-course is recognised as a criminal offence, has sexual intercourse with a person who is not and whom he knows or has reason to believe is not his wife/husband, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, is guilty of the offence of adultery and shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with a fine or with both."

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