Section 19: Kidnapping from guardianship

(1) Any person who-
(a) takes or entices any person under eighteen years of age or any person of unsound mind out of the custody of the lawful guardian of such person without the consent of the guardian or conveys any such person beyond the limits of Nigeria without the consent of someone legally authorised to give consent to such removal, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for fourteen years without an option of fine;
(b) by force compels or by any deceitful means- induces any person to go from any place, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for ten years or to a fine not exceeding N200,000.00 or both;
(c) confines or detains another person in any place against,his will, or otherwise unlawfully deprives another person of his personal liberty, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for flve years or to a fine of N100,000.00 or both;
(d) unlawfully takes an unmarried person under the age of eighteen years out of the custody or protection of such person's father or mother or other person having the lawful care or charge of such person and against the will of such father or mother or persons having lawful care or charge of such person, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for ten years without an option of fine; and
(e) with intent to deprive any parent, guardian, or other person who has the lawful care or charge of a person under the age of eighteen years, of the possession of such person forcibly or fraudulently takes of entices away, or detains the person, or receive or harbours the child, knowing the child to have been so taken or enticed away or detained, commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for fourteen years without an option of fine.
(2) A person is deemed to detain any person in or upon any premises in paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of this section when the person is in or brought upon any such premises with a view to such person being so carnally known, or to detain such person in such premises with intent to compel or induce such persons to remain in or upon the premises, he withholds from such person any wearing apparels other property belonging to such persons or the person's travelling documents.