…and jail offenders for 6 months
A member of the House of Representatives (APC: Toro Constituency, Bauchi), Umar Muda, has introduced a bill to prohibit cross-dressing in Nigeria.
The bill, read on the floor of the House on Tuesday, April 5, seeks to ban cross-dressing with the exemption of those using it for entertainment [exemption of entertainment in the bill, if passed to law may provide a loophole for the dressers].
If the proposed law is passed, cross-dressers will be sentenced to 6 months in prison.
“A person engaging in cross-dressing is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment of 6 months or to a fine of five hundred thousand naira,” the bill says.
The bill seeks to amend the same-sex marriage (prohibition) act of 2013 by including cross-dressing as one of the offences under the act.
Recall that same-sex couples and gay persons face 14 years in jail if convicted by a court.