ROBBERY AND FIREARMS (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) ACT

Section 1: Punishment for robbery.

1984Section 1 of 12Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) Any person who commits the offence of robbery shall upon trial and conviction under this Act, be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than 21 years.
(2) If-
(a) any offender mentioned in subsection (1) of this section is armed with any firearms or any offensive weapon or is in company with any person so armed; or
(b) at or immediately before or immediately after the time of the robbery the said offender wounds or uses any personal violence to any person,
the offender shall be liable upon conviction under this Act to be sentenced to death.
(3) The sentence of death imposed under this section may be executed by hanging the offender by the neck till he be dead or by causing such offender to suffer death by firing squad as the Governor may direct.

Cite this section

Section 1, ROBBERY AND FIREARMS (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) ACT (1984).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/robbery-and-firearms-special-provisions-act/section/1/