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Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act

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Arrangement of Sections

1. Punishment for robbery.

2. Punishment for attempted robbery, etc.

3. Punishment for illegal possession of firearms.

4. Offences relating to sheltering and treating armed robber.

5. Offence and punishment for receiving.

6. Punishment for parties to offences under section I, 2, 3 or 4.

7. Forfeiture of assets.

8. Power to arrest by force without warrant, etc.

9. Trial of offences.

10. Adaptation of Act to Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

11. Interpretation.

12. Short title.

ROBBERY AND FIREAMS ACT

An Act to make comprehensive provisions for matters relating to armed robbery.

[1984 No. 5. 1986 No. 28.]

[29th March, 1984] [Commencement]

1. Punishment for robbery

(1) Any person who commits the offence of robbery shall upon trial and conviction under this Act, be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than 21 years.
(2) If-

(a) any offender mentioned in subsection (1) of this section is armed with any firearms or any offensive weapon or is in company with any person so armed; or

(b) at or immediately before or immediately after the time of the robbery the said offender wounds or uses any personal violence to any person, he offender shall be liable upon conviction under this Act to be sentenced to death.

(3) The sentence of death imposed under this section may be executed by hanging the offender by the neck till he be dead or by causing such offender to suffer death by firing squad as the Governor may direct.

Punishment for attempted robbery, etc.

(1) Any person who, with intent to steal anything, assaults any other person and at or immediately after the time of assault, uses or threatens to use actual violence to any other person or any property in order to obtain the thing intended to be stolen shall upon conviction under this Act be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than fourteen years but not more than twenty years.
(2) If-

(a) any offender mentioned in subsection (1) of this section is armed with any firearms or any offensive weapon or is in company with any other person so armed; or

(b) at or immediately before or immediately after the time of the assault the said offender wounds or uses any other personal violence to any person, the offender shall upon conviction under this Act be sentenced to imprisonment for life.

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