{"id":277877,"date":"2020-11-04T17:28:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T16:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=277877"},"modified":"2020-11-04T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T16:38:42","slug":"seized-passport-governors-aide-mocks-moe-odele-nigerian-end-sars-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=277877","title":{"rendered":"Seized passport: Governor’s aide mocks Moe Odele, Nigerian End SARS advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"
Muawiyah Yusuf Muye, media assistant to Niger State Governor, Sani Bello, has made fun of Modupe (Moe) Odele.
\nOn Sunday, authorities blocked her from boarding an international flight.
\nImmigration officials seized Odele\u2019s passport without disclosing her offence.
\nThe legal practitioner gave an update of the situation Tuesday night on Twitter.
\n\u201cI went to retrieve my passport today but was told this: \u201cWe cannot release your passport because you are still under investigation\u201d. As of now, I\u2019m not aware of any charges against me or what I am under investigation for\u201d, she tweeted.
\nIn his reaction, Muye said Odele had boasted about being foreign trained.
\nThe governor\u2019s aide wondered why she took to social media to \u201cshout\u201d
\n\u201cYou 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?\u201d, Muye tweeted.
\n\u201cSoro soke abi?\u201d (a Yoruba phrase) means \u201cspeak louder right?\u201d. Soro soke became a popular slang off and on social media while End SARS protest was on.
\nOdele rose to prominence during the nationwide calls for an end to police brutality.
\nShe, Feyikemi Abudu, and many others provided free legal representation to citizens arrested and detained during the demonstrations.
\nOdele was also involved in coordination and supply of emergency services on health and security, facilities, equipment, protest materials, among several needs.
\nThere 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.
\nBank accounts of those who received funds linked to the End SARS campaign have been reportedly blocked.
\nSince 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.
\nRecounting the airport encounter, Odele in a newsletter, said she was on her way to the Maldives to celebrate her birthday.
\nShe noted that events of the last three weeks exhausted her mind and body in an unprecedented way.
\n\u201cWhile 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\u2019m like excuse me, my flight is in an hour. On what grounds are you detaining me? He didn\u2019t respond.
\n\u201cInstead, he goes to his computer where he typed in my name, and something that looked like a \u2018wanted poster\u2019 popped up on the portal. He blocked my view so I couldn\u2019t see most of it but I saw some of it. And it read something like \u2013 \u2018This person is under investigation by XYZ Intelligence Agency. If seen, they should be apprehended on sight.\u2019\u201d\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s passport without disclosing her offence. The legal practitioner gave an update of the situation Tuesday night on Twitter. \u201cI went to retrieve my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,15827],"class_list":["post-277877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-endsars-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/277878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}