Section 27: Removal of immigrant where any is refused.

(1)
Where a person arriving by ship or water vessel, aircraft, motor vehicle, or other means of transportation which lands by sea or air, or arrives overland is for any reason refused entry into Nigeria, an immigration officer may give the following directives-
(a) the master of the ship or captain of the aircraft, the driver of the motor vehicle or the operator of the other means of transportation in which the immigrants arrived in Nigeria, to remove the immigrant from Nigeria in that ship, aircraft, motor vehicle or the operator of the other means of transportation ;
(b)
the owners or agents of the said ship or water vessel, aircraft, motor vehicle, or other means of transportation, to remove the immigrant from Nigeria in any ship or water vessel, aircraft, motor vehicle, or other means of transportation specified in the directives, being a ship or water vessel, aircraft, motor vehicle, or other means of transportation of which they are the owners or agents ;
(c)
the said owners or agents to make arrangement for the removal of the immigrant from Nigeria in any ship or water vessel, aircraft, motor vehicle, or other means of transportation bound for a country or territory specified in the directives, being a-
(i) country of which the person refused entry is a citizen,
(ii) country or territory from which he has obtained a passport or other documents of identity,
(iii) country or territory from which he embarked for Nigeria, or
(iv) country or territory to which there is reason to believe that the immigrant will be admitted and for securing him a passage to that country or territory.
(2)
lt it appears to the Minister, that in the circumstances it is not practicable for directives to be given under sub-section (1) of this Section in respect of an immigrant, or that directives so given would be ineffective, the Minister or the Comptroller-General of lmmigration may give to the owners or agents of any ship or water vessel, aircraft, motor vehicle, or other means of transportation such directives as may be given under sub-section (1) (c) of this section to the owners or agents of the ship or water vessel, aircraft, motor vehicle, or other means of transportation in which the immigrant arrived in Nigeria and, in any such case, the cost of complying with the directives shall be borne by the owners or agents, as the case may be, of the ship or water vessel, aircraft, motor vehicle, or other means of transportation.
(3)
An immigrant in respect of whom directives are given under this section, may be placed under the authority of an immigration officer, on board any ship or aircraft in which he is to be removed in accordance with the directives.