Section 11: Obstruction of officers, etc.

If any person-(a) obstructs, hinders, molests or assaults any person duly engaged in the performance
of any duty or the exercise of any power imposed or conferred on him by the customs and excise laws, or any person acting in his aid; or
(b) does anything which impedes or is intended to impede the carrying out of any search for any thing liable to forfeiture under the customs and excise laws or the detention, seizure or removal of any such thing; or
(c) rescues, damages or destroys any thing so liable to forfeiture or does anything intended to prevent the procuring or giving of evidence as to whether or not any thing is so liable to forfeiture; or
(d)
prevents the arrest of any person by a person duly engaged or acting as aforesaid or rescues any person so arrested,
he shall be liable to a fine of one thousand naira or to imprisonment for two years, or to both.