Section 404

(1) Any person who, being employed in the public service of Nigeria, or in that of any other Government, corruptly and under colour of his employment-

(a) demands or takes property from any person; or

(b) compels any person to sell any property at other than its fair market value; or

(c) obtains lodging from and against the will of any person without payment or for inadequate payment; or

(d) compels, whether partially or wholly for his own profit, any person to work without payment or for inadequate payment;

is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for five years.

(2) Any person who, falsely representing himself by words, conduct, or otherwise, to be a person employed in the public service "of Nigeria, or of any other Government, or to he an agent of, or acting under the authority of, the Government of Nigeria, or of any other Government, unlawfully and in such assumed character-

(a) does any of the acts or things specified in (a), (b), (c), and (d) in the last preceding subsection; or

(b) compels or orders any person to hand any property over to any other person, whether such property does or does not rightly belong, or is or is not rightly due, to the last-named person; is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for five years.

(3) Any person attempting, or inciting, soliciting, counselling, procuring, aiding, or abetting any person, to commit any of the Offences enumerated in the last two preceding subsections is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for five years.