'Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence' in document 'Nigeria - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

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Offences against the Administration of Law and Justice and against Public Authority

Chapter 14
Offences relating to the Administration of Justice

121. Any person who -

(1) gives, confers, or procures, or promises or offers to give or confer, or to procure or attempt to procure, any property or benefit of any kind to, upon, or for, any person, upon any agreement or understanding that any person called or to be called as a witness in any judicial proceeding shall give false testimony or withhold true testimony ; or

(2) attempts by any other means to induce a person called or to be called as a witness in any judicial proceeding to give false testimony or to withhold true testimony ; or

(3) asks, receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain any property or benefit of any kind for himself or any other person, upon any agreement or understanding that any person shall as a witness in any judicial, proceeding give false testimony or withold true testimony ;

is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for seven years. The offender cannot be arrested without warrant.

Part 3
Offences against the Administration of Law and Justice and against Public Authority

Chapter 14
Offences relating to the Administration of Justice

123. Any person who, knowing that any book, document, or other thing of any kind, is or may be
required in evidence in a judicial proceeding, wilfully removes, conceals or destroys it or renders it illegible or undecipherable or incapable of identification, with intent thereby to prevent it from being used in evidence is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three years.

The offender cannot be arrested without warrant.

124. Any person who wilfully prevents or attempts to prevent any person who has been duly
summoned to attend as a witness before any court or tribunal from attending as a witness, or from producing anything in evidence pursuant to the subpoena or summons, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for one year.

Part 3
Offences against the Administration of Law and Justice and against Public Authority

Chapter 14
Offences relating to the Administration of Justice

126. (1) Any person who conspires with another to obstruct, prevent, pervert, or defeat the
course of justice is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

The offender cannot be arrested without warrant.

(2) Any person who attempts, in any way not specially defined in this code, to obstruct,
prevent, pervert, or defeat, the course of justice is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 70
Offences against the administration of justice
1. The Court shall have jurisdiction over the following offences against its administration of justice when committed intentionally:
(c) Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence