Muawiyah Yusuf Muye, media assistant to Niger State
Governor, Sani Bello, has made fun of Modupe (Moe) Odele.
On Sunday, authorities blocked her from boarding an
international flight.
Immigration officials seized Odele’s passport without
disclosing her offence.
The legal practitioner gave an update of the situation Tuesday night on Twitter.
“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”, she tweeted.
In his reaction, Muye said Odele had boasted about being
foreign trained.
The governor’s aide wondered why she took to social media to
“shout”
“You claim to be a foreign-trained lawyer, you gained an
invincible power some days ago, you claim they seized your passport and you are
coming to shout on social media, I thought you guys said you have power now?
Soro soke abi?”, Muye tweeted.
“Soro soke abi?” (a Yoruba phrase) means “speak louder
right?”. Soro soke became a popular slang off and on social media while End
SARS protest was on.
Odele rose to prominence during the nationwide calls for an
end to police brutality.
She, Feyikemi Abudu, and many others provided free legal
representation to citizens arrested and detained during the demonstrations.
Odele was also involved in coordination and supply of
emergency services on health and security, facilities, equipment, protest
materials, among several needs.
There were fears that the state was not comfortable with her
actions. Now, it seems confirmed that the secret service were on her trail all
along.
Bank accounts of those who received funds linked to the End
SARS campaign have been reportedly blocked.
Since mid-October, some accounts have been flagged Post No
Debit (PND). This means owners cannot make withdrawal and all transactions will
be placed on hold.
Recounting the airport encounter, Odele in a newsletter,
said she was on her way to the Maldives to celebrate her birthday.
She noted that events of the last three weeks exhausted her
mind and body in an unprecedented way.
“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.’”
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