Following the seizure of the international passport of #EndSARS promoter, Modupe Odele, by the Nigeria Immigration Service, she has decried the situation noting that it is an infringement of her fundamental rights guaranteed under the 1999 Constitution.
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This is following the seizure of her passport for the fifth day without disclosing the reason(s) by the authorities at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Sunday on her way to the Maldives through Dubai.
Disclosing this via her Twitter handle, the #EndSARS promoter said they have not given any reason for seizing her passport except telling her that she was under investigation.
“Today is the 5th day that my passport is still being held after it was seized at the Lagos international airport. If there’s no no-fly list, that’s okay but why has my passport not been released yet?
“Holding on to my passport without giving me any reason for it is a breach of my constitutional right. I’ve not been informed of any investigation against me, I’m not running. I am here. Investigate. Ask me questions but do not continue to hold on to my passport for no reason.
“November 1, I was stopped and my passport was taken some minutes before boarding this flight. No reason was given, other than ‘you are under investigation’ today is November 5, I still do not have my passport back neither have I been told what the investigation is about.”
“I still have not been briefed on the matter and I have no information on it.”
TheNigeriaLawyer recalls that Odele had rendered legal assistance to #EndSARS protesters who were unlawfully arrested in the wake of the protest.
However, the Government appears to be clamping down on notable individuals and entities who took part in the protest.
It would also be recalled that a Firm had earlier dragged Access Bank to Court for placing restrictions on its account on the basis that it was used in financing the #EndSARS protests, while the Bank stated that this was consequent upon the directive of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
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