Section 25: Secrecy. (Amended by Section 2 of the Small and Medium Scale Industries Development Agency (Ammendment) Act, 2016.

(1) A member of the Board or the Director-General or any officer or employee of the Agency shall secrecy.
(a) not, for his personal gain, make use of any information, which has come to his knowledge in the exercise or is obtained by him in the ordinary course of his duty as a member of the Board or as the Director-General, officer or employee of the Agency;
(b) treat as confidential any information which has come to his knowledge in the exercise of his power or is obtained by him in the performance of his duties under this Act;
(c) not disclose any information referred to under paragraph (b) of this subsection, except when required to do so by a court or in such other circumstances as may be prescribed by the Board, from time to time.
(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) of this section commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of not less than N500,000 or imprisonment for a term of 2 years or to both such fine and imprisonment.