Excerpt from the Criminal Code Act

286. When a person is unlawfully assaulted, and has not provoked the assault, it is lawful for him to use such force to the assailant as is reasonably necessary to make effectual defence against the assault:
Provided that the force used is not intended, and is not such as is likely, to cause death or grievous harm.
If the nature of the assault is such as to cause reasonable apprehension of death or grievous harm, and the person using force by way of defence believes, on reasonable grounds, that he cannot otherwise preserve the person defended from death or grievous harm, it is lawful for him to use any such force to the assailant as is necessary for defence, even though such force may cause death or grievous harm.

287. When a person has unlawfully assaulted another or has provoked an assault from another, and that other assaults him with such violence as to cause reasonable apprehension of death or grievous harm, and to induce against provoked him to believe, on reasonable grounds, that it is necessary for his preservation from death or grievous harm to use force in self-defence, he is not criminally responsible for using any such force as is reasonably necessary for such preservation, although such force may cause death or grievous harm.
This protection does not extend to a case in which the person using force, which causes death or grievous harm, first began the assault with intent to kill or to do grievous harm to some person; nor to a case in which the person using force which causes death or grievous harm endeavoured to kill or to do grievous harm to some person before the necessity of so preserving himself arose; nor, in either case, unless, before such necessity arose, the person using such force declined further conflict, and quitted it or retreated from it as far as was practicable.

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Cc: lalasticlala Seun

Oya FP...ftc back to back

Wow.. Problem solved

If person want to kill or cause a serious harm to you and you get chance to kill am or cause serious harm to him first kill am. The law says so

you don't need to check the constitution for this.

this is something that reflect in all the construction worldwide. if a thief go to politician house or a rich man with gun at midnight to cause harm, I don't think he will even call the police. but with his gun he will not fail to shoot.


the only case is that you have to prove that the dead actually meet to cause harm. to your defense

Case closed

Which mean that IPOB are entitled to defend themselves if they are shot at my the Nigeria Army while unarmed!

hopeforcharles:
If person want to kill or cause a serious harm to you and you get chance to kill am or cause serious harm to him first kill am. The law says so

That's the summary.

zendy:
Which mean that IPOB are entitled to defend themselves if they are shot at my the Nigeria Army while unarmed!

Yes

So?

Let the killing spree aka self defense begin

if a rubber comes to your house to Robb you and you were able to get the first attack to kill the rubber, how will you prove that the rubber actually meant to kill you at cause you arm

Boleyndynasty2:
Let the killing spree aka self defense begin

That's the problem with the self defence issue: people can kill others intentionally and frame it as self-defence...since the other person is dead to defend himself.

But that does not mean the provision is not needed, we just need to make sure that it's not abused. The p is that we are used to abusing things in Nigeria