TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (PROHIBITION) ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ACT. NO. 4

Section 26: Offences relating to fraudulent entry of persons.

2015Section 26 of 83Federal Republic of Nigeria

1 Any person who knowingly, in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or material benefit, procures the illegal entry of a person into a country of which the person is not a citizen or a permanent resident, commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of not less than 5 years without an option of fine.
2 Any person who, intentionally in order to obtain a financial or material benefit from another person, engages in fraudulent acts or conducts purportedly for the purpose of procuring, facilitating or promoting the actual or intended entry into, transit across or stay in a country in which that other person is not a national or a permanent resident, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of not less than 5 years without an option of fine and shall refund all monies fraudulently obtained from the victims.
3 For the purpose of subsection (1) of this section "illegal entry" means crossing borders without complying with the necessary requirements for legal entry into the receiving State.

Cite this section

Section 26, TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (PROHIBITION) ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ACT. NO. 4 (2015).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/trafficking-in-persons-prohibition-enforcement-and-administration-act-no-4/section/26/