Section 31: Employees responsibility

1 Without prejudice to any contractual agreement between the employer and the employee, all employees in both the public and private sectors shall relinquish or surrender all codes and access rights to their employers immediately upon disengagement from their employment, and is such code or access right constitutes a threat or risk to the employer, it shall, unless there is any lawful reason to the contrary, be presumed that the refusal to relinquish or surrender such code or access right is intended to be used to hold such employer to ransom.

2 An employee who, without any lawful reason, continues to hold unto the code or access right of his employer after disengagement without any lawful reason commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term 3 years or a fine of =N3,000,000.00 or both.