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Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has revealed that immigration officers seized her passport at an airport, preventing her from leaving the country.
Speaking in a video seen online, the senator representing Kogi Central accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio of giving the order.
Akpoti-Uduaghan called the act an unlawful restriction of her movement and a gross violation of her fundamental rights.
“Hello, fellow Nigerians. I’m Senator Natasha. Having completed my second year in office, I decided to take a week off. I’m at the airport here, and my passport has been withheld again.
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“This same thing happened before when I was stopped from travelling even though I had committed no offence, and there was no court order restricting me.
“The last time this happened, the officer in charge told me that the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, instructed them to withhold my passport and prevent me from travelling because he claimed that each time I go abroad, I ‘spoil the image of the country’ by granting interviews to international media.
“Godswill Akpabio has instructed the Controller General of Customs to withhold my passport. This is wrong,” she said in the clip.
