Section 458: Wilful damage, etc., to survey and boundary marks

Any person who‐
(1) wilfully removes, defaces or injures any survey mark or boundary mark which shall
have been made or erected by or under the direction of any government department
or in the course of or for the purposes of a government survey; or
(2) being under an obligation to maintain in repair any boundary mark made or
erected as aforesaid, neglects or refuses to repair the same; or
(3) wilfully removes, defaces or injures any mark erected by an intending applicant for
any lease, licence or right under the Minerals and Mining Act,
[Cap. M12.]
is guilty of a simple offence and is liable to imprisonment for three months or to a fine
of forty naira, and may further be ordered by the court to pay the cost of repairing or
replacing the survey mark or boundary mark and of making any survey rendered
necessary by the offender's act or neglect.