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Supplement to Official Gazette

ROBBERY FIREARMS AND {SPECIAL PROVISIONS) DECREE 1970 Decree No. 47 [8th August 1970] THE FEDERAL ILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees s follows: 1.-(1) Any person who commits the offence of robbery shall up n trial and conviction uncle this Decree, be liable to imprisonment for not le s than t~enty-one years. (2) If (a) any offender m tioned in subsection (1) above is armed with a y firearms or any offens ve weapon or is in company with any person o armed, or (b) at or immediate! before or immediately after the time of the tobbe .y the said offender wou ds or uses any personal violence to any pe…