Section 8: Offences and penalties therefore.

(1) Any complaint lodged before the Commission shall not be made public by any person except a Commissioner and any person who contravenes the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of N500 or imprisonment for a term of six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(2) If any person required to furnish information under this Act fails to do so or in purported compliance with such requirement to furnish information knowingly or recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of N500 or imprisonment for a term of six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(3) Any person who wilfully obstructs, interferes with, assaults or resists any Commissioner or any other officer or servant of the Commission in the execution of his duty under this Act or who aids, invites, induces or abets any other person to obstruct, interfere with, assault or resist any such Commissioner, officer or servant, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of N500 or imprisonment for a term of six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(4) Any person who in respect of any complaint lodged by him knowingly makes to a Commissioner any statement, whether or not in writing, which is false in any material particular, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for one year without the option of a fine.