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A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, to immediately release the international passport of former Rivers State Governor, Peter Odili, which was unlawfully seized from him in July 2021.
In the ruling, the Presiding Judge, Inyang Ekwo held that the action of Immigration is not only unlawful but illegal and unconstitutional.
The reason that Odili was on the watch list of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arrived to justify the passport seizure was rejected by the court on the ground that such use of power is not known to any law in the country.
