JUST IN: Fresh Crisis Looms, Sen. Natasha, Akpabio
There was mild drama at a Nigerian airport on Tuesday morning as Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan raised alarm that her international passport had been seized on the alleged orders of Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
In a video shared on her official Facebook page, the Kogi Central lawmaker said immigration officers stopped her from travelling, claiming they had instructions from above to withhold her passport.
“Hello fellow Nigerians, good morning. Having completed my second year in office, I wanted to take a week off. I am at the airport, and my passport has been withheld again,” she said in the clip.
According to Senator Natasha, this is not the first time she has faced such an incident. She alleged that on a previous occasion, security officers told her that the directive came from the Senate President himself.
“The last time this happened, the officer in charge told us that the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, said each time I travel out of the country, I smear the image of Nigeria by granting interviews to international media,” she claimed.
The senator insisted that she has committed no offence and that there is no court order authorising the seizure of her travel documents.
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