CRIMINAL CODE ACT

Section 9: Mode of execution immaterial

2004Section 9 of 575Federal Republic of Nigeria

When a person counsels another to commit an offence, and an offence is actually
committed after such counsel by the person to whom it is given, it is immaterial
whether the offence actually committed is the same as that counselled or a different
one, provided in either case that the facts constituting the offence actually committed
are a probable consequence of carrying out the counsel.
In either case, the person who gave the counsel is deemed to have counselled the
other person to commit the offence actually committed by him.

Cite this section

Section 9, CRIMINAL CODE ACT (2004).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/criminal-code-act/section/9/