No-fly List: FG Holds on to Seized Passport of #EndSARS Promoter, Modupe Odele

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Officials of the Nigerian Immigration Service have refused to release the passport of Modupe Odele, a member of the Feminist Coalition, a group recognised as the financial backbone of the #EndSARS protests.

Odele was reportedly stopped from travelling out of the country at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Sunday night, following which her passport was confiscated.

Odele tweeted this evening that she went to retrieve her passport today but was told by security officials that it could not be released to her yet, because she was still under investigation.

She wrote, “Hello people, I went to retrieve my passport today but was told this: ‘We cannot release your passport because you are still under investigation’.
As of now, I’m not aware of any charges against me or what I am under investigation for.

An online news outlet had reported that a no-fly list of “hundreds of Nigerians” the government suspects of energising the #EndSARS protest is being compiled.

But in a tweet today, the ministry of interior described the report of a no-fly list as “fake news”.

“The Ministry of Interior did not, has not and will not generate any no-fly list. Ignore fake news please!” the ministry tweeted.

A no-fly list is a register of people banned from boarding commercial aircraft for travel within, into, or out of a country.

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