{"id":123570,"date":"2025-11-04T10:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=123570"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:48:07","slug":"again-sen-natasha-cries-foul-as-immigration-confiscates-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/again-sen-natasha-cries-foul-as-immigration-confiscates-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"Again, Sen Natasha Cries Foul as Immigration Confiscates Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Myke Agunwa, Abuja<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senator representing Kogi Central in the National Assembly, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has once again accused the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, of using the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to victimise her by allegedly confiscating her passport.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a video posted on her official Facebook page on Tuesday, the senator claimed that officers of the NIS seized her passport at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, acting on what she described as \u201corders from above.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visibly upset, Akpoti-Uduaghan said, \u201cHave I committed any offence? Why are you withholding my passport?\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lawmaker explained that she had just celebrated two years in office and decided to take a week off, but at the airport, her passport was withheld by NIS officials.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis same thing happened before, and my passport was seized, yet there is no court order to withhold my passport or deny me the chance to travel. The last time this happened, the office in charge told us that the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, instructed them to withhold my passport and prevent me from traveling because he said that each time I travel out of the country, I damage the country\u2019s image by granting interviews to the international media. Can you tell them to release my passport? This embarrassment should stop,\u201d she demanded.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is intimidation taken too far. I am a serving senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. My passport is my right, not a privilege. I demand that it be released immediately,\u201d she added in the video.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She called on Nigerians and the international community to \u201ctake note of the abuse of power and intimidation of elected representatives who dare to question authority.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The senator, who has been locked in an ongoing conflict with Akpabio over what she had described as \u201charassment and legislative bullying,\u201d had earlier this year served a six-month suspension from the Senate following a confrontation with the Senate leadership. She was later reinstated after widespread public criticism and intervention by civil society groups.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a surprising move after her reinstatement, Akpoti-Uduaghan recently extended an invitation to Senate President Akpabio to attend the commissioning of a major constituency project in Kogi Central, a gesture many saw as an attempt to mend fences and promote legislative harmony.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As of press time, neither the Senate President nor the Nigeria Immigration Service had issued any official response to the senator\u2019s latest allegation.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Myke Agunwa, Abuja Senator representing Kogi Central in the National Assembly, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has once again accused the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, of using the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS)&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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