Section 14: Offences

(1) Any person who-
(a) brings, throws or otherwise introduces into or removes from a prison, or gives to or takes from a prisoner any alcoholic liquor, tobacco, intoxicating or poisonous drug or article prohibited by regulations made under this Act; or
(b) communicates or attempts to communicate with a prisoner without the permission of the superintendent; or
(c) is found in possession of any article which has been supplied to a prison officer for the execution of his duty or of any other prison property and fails to account satisfactorily for his possession of the article, or without due authority purchases or receives any property from a prison officer, or aids or abets a prison officer to conceal or dispose of any property; or
(d) by any means directly or indirectly procures or attempts to procure or persuade a prison officer to desert, or aids, abets or is an accessory to the desertion of a prison officer, or having reason to believe that a person is a deserting prison officer harbours that person or aids in his concealment or rescue; or
(e) directly or indirectly instigates, commands, counsels or solicits any mutiny, sedition or disobedience to a lawful command of a senior officer by a prison officer, or maliciously endeavours to seduce any prison officer from his allegiance or duty; or
(f) knowingly harbours in his house or land or otherwise, or knowingly employs, any person under Sentence of imprisonment who is illegally at large; or
(g) interferes with a prisoner working outside a prison, or allows such a prisoner to enter any house, yard or other premises (unless it is at the request of the prison officer or other person in charge of the prisoner), or assists such a prisoner to absent himself or neglect his work,
shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction shall be liable to a fine not exceeding N400 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twelve months, or to both.
(2) If a person reasonably appearing to a prison officer to have committed an offence of the kind specified in subsection (1) (a) or (b) of this section refuses on the prison officer's demand to give his name and residence or gives a name or residence which the prison officer knows or has reason to believe to be false-
(a) the prison officer may arrest that person and hand him over as soon as possible to a police officer; and
(b) the police officer shall thereupon proceed as if the offence had been committed in his presence.