Managing Partner of Universe Attorneys, Akande Paul, has warned against sleeping with an animal in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
He said this in a chat with The PUNCH on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n The warning came amid concerns over a trending video of a dog having an affair with a lady.<\/span><\/p>\n According to Akande, the Criminal Code Act and the Penal Code Act criminalise sleeping with an animal.<\/span><\/p>\n He explained that sleeping with an animal attract 14 years imprisonment in Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n He said, \u201cIt is a Criminal offence for anybody in Nigeria to have sex with lower animals like dogs, horses, cats, cows, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOral sex (\u2018receiving head\u2019) from an animal is a sexual act which constitutes sexual offence.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn Nigeria, it is an offense to engage in bestiality (having canal knowledge of an animal).<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe punishment is 14 years imprisonment upon conviction based on Section 214 of the Criminal Code Act; Section 284 of the Penal Code Act.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Section 214 of Criminal Code Act states that \u201cAny person who- (1) has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature; or (2) has carnal knowledge of an animal; or (3) permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature; is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Section 284 of the Penal Code Act states that \u201cWhoever has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years and shall also be liable to fine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Managing Partner of Universe Attorneys, Akande Paul, has warned against sleeping with an animal in Nigeria. He said this in a chat with The PUNCH on Saturday. The warning came amid concerns over a trending video of a dog having an affair with a lady. According to Akande, the Criminal Code Act and the Penal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4567,2785,546,4566],"class_list":["post-7587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-animals","tag-imprisonment","tag-lawyer","tag-sleeping-with-dog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7590,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions\/7590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}