JUST IN: Immigration deprives #EndSARS promoter from travelling out of Nigeria

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Sunday deprived Modupe Odele, a promoter of the #EndSARS movement from travelling out of the country.

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Odele, popularly known by her @Mochievous Twitter handle made this known on Tuesday.

“Hello everyone. Thank you so much. I’m fine and I’m safe. 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,” Odele tweeted.

Hello everyone. Thank you so much. I’m fine and I’m safe. 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 🙏🏽

— Moe (@Mochievous) November 3, 2020

Earlier, the corporate lawyer and community builder had narrated in a newsletter how an immigration officer accustomed her at the airport.

She wrote, “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”.

Meanwhile, at the time of filing this report, the NIS was yet to release an official statement on why Odele was deprived from travelling out of the country.