Section 382 - Breach of contract to attend on and supply wants of helpless person. .

Whoever, being bound by a lawful contract to attend on or to supply the wants of a person, who by reason of youth or of unsoundness of mind or of disease or bodily weakness is helpless or incapable of providing for his own safety or of supplying his own wants, voluntarily omits so to do, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to twenty naira or with both. CHAPTER XXII