Section 368 of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria. Concealment of matters affecting liberty

Any person who‐

(1) being required by law to keep any record touching any matter relating to any person in confinement, refuses or neglects to keep such record, or makes in such record an entry which, in any material particular, is, to his knowledge, false; or

(2) being required by law to give any information to any person touching any person in confinement, or to show to any person, any person in confinement, or any place in which a person is confined‐

(a) refuses or neglects to give such information or to show such person or place to any person to whom he is so required to give the information or show the person or place; or

(b) gives to any person to whom he is so required to give it, information touching any such matter which, in any material particular, is to his knowledge, false,

is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for three years.

Section 368 of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria

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