IMMIGRATION ACT 2015

Section 67: Offences relating to enabling illegal residence.

2015Section 67 of 117Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1)
Any person who intentionally or knowingly, in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or material benefit, enables a person who is not a national or permanent resident of a country to stay illegally in that country by means of a fraudulent identity document or any other illegal means, commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of seven years and a fine of not less than one million Naira or both, and is in addition liable to refund to the smuggled person all monies obtained from him in the course of the commission of the offence.
(2)
Any person who intentionally, in order to obtain a financial or material benefit from another person, engages in a fraudulent act or conduct purportedly for the purpose of procuring, facilitating or promoting the stay by that other person in a country of which he is not a national or a permanent resident, commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of ten years or a fine of not less than one million Naira or both, and is in addition liable to refund to the smuggled migrant all monies obtained from him in the course of the commission of the offence.

Cite this section

Section 67, IMMIGRATION ACT 2015 (2015).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/immigration-act-2015/section/67/