Section 1: Damage to telecommunication works an offence

(1) Any person who wilfully and unlawfully-
(a) destroys, damages or removes any telecommunication works; or
(b)
otherwise prevents or obstructs the sending or delivering of a communication by means of telecommunication,
shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
(2) Any person found guilty of an offence under subsection (1) of this section shall, on conviction be liable-
(a) in the case of an offence under paragraph (a) of subsection (1), to a fine of two times the value of any such telecommunication works as might have been destroyed, damaged or removed by him or N2,OOO,whichever is higher, or to imprisonment for ten years or to both such fine and imprisonment; or
(b) in the case of an offence under paragraph (b) of subsection (1), to a fine of N500 or to imprisonment for three years or to both such fine and imprisonment.