Actor Rotimi Salami has called on the government to make paternity fraud a crime just like r3pe.
He advocated for this on his Instagram page.
Salami claimed that the emotional pain experienced by a man who discovers that the child he has been raising is not biologically related to him is comparable to the pain experienced by a woman who has been raped.
He said that paternity fraud should be criminalized in the same way as r3pe.
He also noted how rape is a major offence and wants paternity fraud to be one too.
He posted: “Paternity fraud should be criminalized just like rape. The experience when raped is the same a man goes through when he finds out he’s been raising another man’s child. Damn!
“Rape is a major offence. Paternity fraud should also be. None of these 2 should be encouraged. Men’s mental health too matters.”