Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan was on Tuesday morney prevented from travelling abroad as Nigerian immigration officers seized her passport at the Abuja airport.
In a live video on Instagram, the Kogi Central lawmaker cried out, questioning immigration officials over the confiscation of her passport.
She said it was the second time and accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio of giving the order for her passport to be seized.
Recall that Natasha had accused the senate president of sexually harassing her.
She described the action as 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,” she said in the video.
“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 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.”
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