CRIMINAL CODE ACT

Section 139: Prison officers accessory to breaches of discipline

2004Section 139 of 575Federal Republic of Nigeria

If any prison officer or person in charge of any convicted prisoner knowingly permits or
suffers such prisoner to receive any tobacco, food, money, or other article, or to enter
any house, yard, or premises not being the place appointed for the labour of such
prisoner he is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for six months
and to a fine of one hundred naira.

Cite this section

Section 139, CRIMINAL CODE ACT (2004).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/criminal-code-act/section/139/