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The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has told Modupe Odele, a supporter of the #EndSARS protest that her passport cannot be released.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Odele’s passport was seized from her on Sunday on her trip to celebrate her birthday in the Maldives.
The NIS deprived Odele from travelling out of the country after she was marked as being under investigation.
However, the corporate lawyer and community builder, popularly known by her @Mochievous Twitter, has said she is not aware of any charges against her.
Odele, who was invited back to an undisclosed NIS office on Tuesday, also stated that she is not aware of what she is being investigated for.
“I went to retrieve my passport today but was told this: “We cannot release your passport because you are still under investigation”.
*As of now, I’m not aware of any charges against me or what I am under investigation for,” she stated on Tuesday via Twitter.
Hello people, I went to retrieve my passport today but was told this: “We cannot release your passport because you are still under investigation”.
As of now, I’m not aware of any charges against me or what I am under investigation for.— Moe (@Mochievous) November 3, 2020
While the authorities have kept mum on the matter, Odele had said she would give an update when she has more information.
“We haven’t confirmed yet why I was stopped on Sunday or by whom. But I’ve been invited back in with my lawyers today.
*I’ll update when I have more information but please don’t spread false news. That is dangerous,” she tweeted.
Earlier, she had narrated in a newsletter how an immigration officer accustomed her at the airport on her way out of Nigeria.
“For my birthday, I had planned a trip to the Maldives. It was really for a break as the events of the last three weeks have exhausted my mind and body in a way I have never been exhausted in my life.
“I went to the airport, passed through immigration, and while I was putting my bags through the body and baggage scanner, the immigration officer who had previously cleared me, called me back. He told me he had orders from above to detain me.
“Okay, at this point I’m like excuse me, my flight is in an hour. On what grounds are you detaining me?” He didn’t respond. Instead, he goes to his computer where he typed in my name and something that looked like a ‘wanted poster’ popped up on the portal.
“He blocked my view so I couldn’t see most of it but I saw some of it. And it read something like – ‘This person is under investigation by XYZ Intelligence Agency. If seen, they should be apprehended on sight,” she wrote.