The House of Reps have stepped down a bill proposing to criminalise crossing dressing in Nigeria.
During Tuesday’s session the sponsor of the bill, Muda Lawal Ulnar was asked to step down the bill, after it was unanimously agreed that arguments to consider a ban were not convincing.
This would be music in the ears of crossdressers like Bobrisky and James Brown who have made themselves look more like women.
“A person engaging in cross-dressing is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment of 6 months or a fine of five hundred thousand naira,” the bill had proposed.
In the proposed bill Rep Muda Lawal Ulnar had recommended six months imprisonment or a fine of N500,000 for anyone found guilty.
“A person shall be deemed to have committed the offence publicly where it is published or displayed publicly notwithstanding that it was committed privately or in any place that would have ordinarily been described as private. Provided that this section of this Act shall not apply to cross-dressing in the course of a stage play or in any bona fide public entertainment.
“That Section 5 is amended by inserting, after the existing sub-clause (3), a new sub-clause (4): That a person engaged in cross-dressing is guilty of an offense and liable to imprisonment for 6 months or to a fine of N500,000.”
