You will be fined N50,000 or sentenced to community service for indecent dressing – Delta State Police warn residents

The Delta State Police Command has warned that residents will be punished for indecent dressing under the provisions of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Law.

The command’s Public Relations Department disclosed this in a post on Saturday, June 28, 2025.

According to the post, under the VAAP law, anybody who dresses indecently will be fined N50,000 or sentenced to community service.

“As you nor like wear cloth wey dey cover your body well, and you prefer dey waka go work, school, or anywhere with clothes wey dey show everywhere for your body, make you hear am – Delta state government nor dey smile for that kain dressing that kain. VAAP law don ready to punish anybody wey nor dress well,” the post read.

The VAPP Act, signed into law in 2015 by then-President Goodluck Jonathan, was domesticated in Delta State in July 2020 by the State House of Assembly.

The law is designed to prohibit all forms of violence against persons in both private and public life, offering protection to victims and ensuring offenders are punished.

It prohibits female circumcision or genital mutilation, forceful ejection from home and harmful widowhood practices. It prohibits abandonment of spouse, children and other dependants without sustenance, battery and harmful traditional practices

Under Section 29: Indecent Exposure of the Delta State version of the law states: “(1) A person who intentionally exposes any of his or her private parts wholly or partly in public commits the offence of indecent exposure.

“(2) A person who commits the offence provided for in subsection (1) of this Section is liable on conviction to perform such community service as the court may order or to pay a fine not exceeding N50,000.00 or both.”

Source: LIB