Section 513: Attempts to procure commission of criminal acts

(1) Any person who attempts to procure another to do an act or make an omission of
such a nature that if he himself were to do the act or make the omission he would be
guilty of an offence, is himself to be deemed guilty of attempting to commit such
offence and to be punishable accordingly.
(2) Any person who while in Nigeria attempts to procure another to do an act or make
an omission at a place not in Nigeria of such a nature‐
(a) that if he were himself to do the act or make the omission in Nigeria he would be
guilty of an offence; and
(b) that if he were himself to do the act or make the omission at the place where the
act or omission is proposed to be done or made, he would himself be guilty of an
offence under the laws in force at that place,
is guilty of an offence of the same kind and is liable to the same punishment as if he
were himself to attempt to do the same act or make the same omission in Nigeria.