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Officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) have allegedly seized the international passport belonging to the Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, preventing her from leaving the country. The Senator, in a live Facebook video on Tuesday, accused the Senate President Godswill Akpabio of instructing the agency to prevent her from traveling out of the country. Natasha, visibly angry about the development, was seen in the video confronting and demanding an explanation from the officers at the airport counter. “Have I committed any offense? Why are you withholding my passport?” the Senator asked. Continuing, Natasha explained that her decision to leave the country was to take a week off after completing celebrations of her second year in office, stating that she “has committed no offense and there’s no order from the court to withhold her passport.” “The last time this happened, the officer in charge told us that the Senate President Godswill Akpabio told them to withhold my passport and prevent me from traveling because he said each time I travel out of the country, I smear the country’s image by granting interviews in international media,” the Senator alleged. However, as of the time of filing this report, neither the Nigerian Immigration Service nor the office of the Senate President had issued official response to the allegations. ALSO READ TOP STORIES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
