Section 49: Removal of persons subject to Deportation Order.

(1)
The Minister, Comptroller General of lmmigration or anyofficer acting under his authority and notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, give directives to the master of any ship or captain of any aircraft or operator of any other means of transportation which is about to leave Nigeria, requiring him to provide Passage to any person against whom a deportation order is in force, and to any dependants of his specified in the directives, a passage to any port so specified being a port in a country of which that person is a citizen or a country or territory to which the Minister has reason to believe that he will be admitted, and at which the ship, aircraft, or the other means of transportation is to call or land in the course of its journey and proper accommodation and maintenance during the passage.
(2)
A person in respect of whom directives are given under sub-section (1) of this Section, maybe placed, under the authority of the Minister, on board any ship, or water vessel, aircraft, motor vehicle or other means of transportation in which he is to be removed in accordance with the directives.
(3)
The employer of any person against whom a deportation order is in force shall pay the expenses, incedental to the journey from Nigeria of the person to be deported and his dependants, if any, and the maintenance until departure of such person and his dependants, and in default of such payment the Minister may sue for and recover the same, or in his discretion may apply in and towards any such expenses aforesaid, funds belonging to the persons to be deported, or cause the expenses to be defrayed by the Government of the Federation.