Section 404: Public servants demanding property, etc.

(1) Any person who, being employed in the public service of Nigeria, or in that of any
other government, corruptly and under colour of his employment‐
(a) demands or takes property from any person; or
(b) compels any person to sell any property at other than its fair market value; or
(c) obtains lodging from and against the will of any person without payment or for
inadequate payment; or
(d) compels, whether partially or wholly for his own profit, any person to work without
payment or for inadequate payment,
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.
(2) Any person who, falsely representing himself by words, conduct, or otherwise, to be
a person employed in the public service of Nigeria, or of any other government, or to
be an agent of or act under the authority of, the government, unlawfully and in such
assumed character‐
(a) does any of the acts or things specified in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), and (d) of
subsection (1) of this section; or
(b) compels or orders any person to hand any property over to any other person,
whether such property does or does not rightly belong, or is or is not rightly due, to the
last‐ named person,
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.
(3) Any person attempting, or inciting, soliciting, counselling, procuring, aiding, or
abetting any person to commit any of the offences enumerated in subsections (1) and
(2) of this section, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.