'Individual commission' in document 'Nigeria - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Part 1
Introductory
Interpretation: Application: General Principles

Chapter 2
Parties to Offences

7. When an offence is committed, each of the following persons is deemed to have taken part in
committing the offence and to be guilty of the offence, and may be charged with actually committing it, that is to say -

(a) every person who actually does the act or makes the omission which constitutes the offence ;

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility
3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(a) Commits such a crime, whether as an individual, jointly with another or through another person, regardless of whether that other person is criminally responsible