Akpabio has instructed Immigration officials to seize my passport, Natasha says at airport
By Desire Emmanuel
The Senator representing Kogi Central in the National Assembly, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has accused the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio of instructing officials of the Nigerian Immigration to seize her passport and prevent her from travelling out of the country.
Akpabio and Natasha have been at loggerheads for some following accusation of harassment by the lady which earned her a six-month suspension from the senate.
Natasha, in a live video posted on her Facebook page on Tuesday, said Akpabio had instructed the Immigration to seize her passport in order to prevent her from travelling out of the country.
Officials of the agency were seen in the video holding her passport while she was shouting, confronting the officials and demanding why her passport was being withheld.
“Have I committed any offence? Why are you withholding my passport?” she asked.
Natasha said in the video that her decision to travel out of the country was to take a week off after completing her second year in office as a senator, stating that she was not aware of any court order to seize 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 in the video.
“You have no right to withhold my passport, you have no right to deny me entry and exit to my country. I have not committed any offence and this must stop. I have to sue you for continuously embarrassing me,” she told the immigration officials.
