Section 72: Making proclamation for rioters to disperse

Any magistrate or, in his absence, any police officer, of or above the rank of assistant
superintendent, or any commissioned officer in the Naval, Military or Air Forces of
Nigeria in whose view a riot is being committed, or who apprehends that a riot is about
to be committed by persons assembled within his view, may make or cause to be
made a proclamation in the name of the Federal Republic in such form as he thinks fit,
commanding the rioters or persons so assembled to disperse peaceably.
[L.N. 112 of 1964.]