EndSARS: I’m not running away, release my passport, promoter tells immigration

Post Date : November 5, 2020

The Nigeria Immigration Service has held on to the passport of #EndSARS promoter, Modupe Odele , for the fifth straight day and has refused to disclose reasons for seizing the passport.

Odele , who provided legal assistance to protesters who were unjustly arrested by the authorities, was stopped at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport , Lagos , on Sunday on her way to the Maldives through Dubai.

On Thursday, she tweeted , “ 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 , ” James said.

The government seems to have clamped down on notable persons who took part in the #EndSARS protest which rocked the nation .

Bank accounts of persons who handled some of the funds raised by the protesters , have been frozen by the Central Bank of Nigeria .

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