#EndSARS
Outrage As Female #EndSARS Organiser Is Stopped From Travelling
Many Nigerians have taken to the microblogging platform, Twitter, to demand freedom for Module Odele, a promoter of the #EndSARS movement after she was detained at the airport on her way out of the country for a vacation.
Odele, a lawyer and member of the Feminist Coalition, a group that organized the logistics involved in the #EndSARS protests, said her passport was seized by an official of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS at the airport, when she was about to travel to Maldives for her birthday celebration.
During the #EndSARS, the lawyer used her Twitter handle @Mochievous to canvass support for the protests and offered Pro Bono legal representation to those illegally arrested during the protests.
Odele, on Monday, in a newsletter, said an immigration officer, who had previously cleared her, said he was given an order from above to detain her.
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.’”
As a result, many Nigerians have taken to Twitter, using the hashtag, #FreeMoeSexy, to condemn what they described as dictatorial tendencies, to silence those who promoted the #EndSARS protests.
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