Section 252: Unauthorised use of and dealing in decorations, etc.

(1) A person who-
(a) without authority, uses or wears a service decoration, badge, wound stripe or an emblem supplied or authorised by the President or the Forces Council; or
(b) uses or wears a decoration, badge, wound stripe or an emblem so nearly resembling a service decoration, badge, stripe or emblem as is specified in paragraph (a) of this subsection, as to be calculated to deceive; or
(c) falsely represents himself to be a person who is or has been entitled to use or wear a decoration, badge, stripe or an emblem as is specified in paragraph (a) of this subsection,
is guilty of an offence under this section, but nothing in this subsection shall prohibit the use or wearing of ordinary regimental badges, emblems, brooches or ornaments representing them.
(2) A person who purchases or takes in pawn a service decoration awarded to a member of the Armed Forces or solicits or procures a person to sell or pledge the decoration, or acts for any other person in the sale or pledging of the decoration, is guilty of an offence under this section unless he proves that at the time of the alleged offence the person to whom the decoration was awarded was dead or had ceased to be a member of the Armed Forces.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred naira or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and imprisonment.