Nigerian Penal Code Act

Section 227 - Abetment of suicide of child or insane person.

If a person under eighteen years of age, an insane person, a delirious person, an idiot or a person in a state of intoxication commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of that suicide shall be punished with death.

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