Nigerian Penal Code Act

Section 277 - Concealing or keeping in confinement kidnapped or abducted person.

Whoever knowing that a person has been kidnapped or has been abducted wrongfully conceals or confines the person, shall be punished in the same manner as if he had kidnapped or abducted that person.

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