Section 169 - Offering gratification in consideration of screening offender.

(1) Whoever gives or causes or offers or agrees to give a cause a gratification to any other person or to restore or cause the restoration of a property to any other person, in consideration of that other person's concealing an offence or of his screening a person from legal punishment for an offence or of his not proceeding against a person for the purpose of bringing him to legal punishment, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years and shall also be liable to fine.

(2) This section shall not extend to a case in which the offence may lawfully be compounded.

Explanation

In this section the word offence includes an act done outside the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, which if done in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, would be an offence and the punishment for the offence shall be deemed to be the same as the punishment would be if the act were done in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.