The statement added that Governor Ambode and his entire cabinet, on behalf of the good people of Lagos
State appreciate and congratulate the Fawehinmi family
for keeping the flag of what Gani represents to the law profession and the civil society flying through the
sustenance of the colloquium to celebrate his birthday annually.
Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary
sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates or kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary
sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed; and whoever uses in a cruel or inhuman manner in a race, game, or contest, or in training therefor, as lure or bait a live animal, except an animal if used as lure or bait in fishing; and whoever, having the charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon it, or unnecessarily fails to provide it with proper food, drink, shelter, sanitary environment, or protection from the weather, and whoever, as owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of an animal, cruelly drives or works it when unfit
for labor, or willfully abandons it, or carries it or causes it to be carried in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon, or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty of any kind shall be punished by imprisonment in the
state prison
for not more than 7 years in
state prison or imprisonment in the house of correction
for not more than 21/2 years or by a fine of not more than $ 5,000 or by both fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that a second or subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the
state prison
for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $ 10,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.