Oxlade and Tiwa Savage Pelumi Olajengbesi, an Abuja-based lawyer, states posting sex tapes on social networks brings in up to three-year prison term and up to N7m fine.

He made this understood in a declaration on Thursday while responding to the leaked s * x tape of vocalist Ikuforiji Abdulrahman, aka Oxlade, and another sex tape including vocalist Tiwa Savage.

The legal representative said the profane display screen of nudes and the sharing of s * x tapes on the internet can triggering damage to public decency and national morality.

“It is a criminal act punishable by law,” he noted in the statement titled, ‘Posting of sex tapes and other indecent videos on the web is criminal, punishable by law and likewise upsets public morality’.

The statement partially checked out, “Under the Cybercrimes Act, 2015 relevant in all States of the federation including FCT-Abuja, Section 24 of the Act provides thus;

“(a) Any person who knowingly or purposefully sends a message or other matter by means of computer systems or network that is grossly offensive, pornographic or of an indecent, enormous or profane character or causes any such message or matter to be so sent out; … dedicates an offence under this Act and will be liable on conviction to a fine of not more than N7, 000,000.00 or jail time for a regard to not more than 3 years or to both such fine and jail time.”

It included, “It is clear that the sharing of indecent files on the web or other related devices is an offense which the law frowns upon. Apart from the personal injury and result on the victim, flying of very same throughout the internet is similarly capable of triggering public problem which may result in the breach of public peace if dealt with lackadaisically.

“In addition to this, it is crucial to comprehend that as Africans we hold morality and decency in high esteem and this generation of ours need to act meticulously while using media and the internet in order to safeguard the peace of mind of our culture.

“While interesting users to keep national worths and regard the rights of others in view at all times, we similarly urge our law enforcement agencies to be approximately their job in maintaining the guideline of law in this grey location.”

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