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Court Orders Immigration To Release Peter Odili’s Passport & Apologise To Him
In a elementary rights enforcement swimsuit, the previous Rivers State Governor had sued the NIS and its Comptroller-Common earlier than a Federal Excessive courtroom in Abuja difficult the seizure of his passport on the Nnamdi Azikwe Worldwide Airport.
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal Excessive Court docket, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Nigerian Immigration Companies to instantly launch the worldwide passport of former Rivers State Governor, Dr Peter Odili, to him.
The courtroom gave the order in a judgement following a elementary rights enforcement swimsuit dated August 25 and filed on the 26, instituted by Odili, difficult the seizure of his worldwide travelling paperwork by Immigration officers.
The courtroom additionally restricted the NIS from additional harassing and restraining Odili from travelling in and overseas.
The courtroom additionally ordered the NIS to write down a letter of apology to the previous Governor.
The previous Governor had claimed earlier than the courtroom that his worldwide passport with numbers B50031305 was seized from him on June 20, 2021, by operatives of the Immigration Service and had since been withheld.
A medical physician by career, Odili served as Rivers state Deputy-Governor between 1992 and 1993, and later held workplace as substantive Governor between 1999 and 2007.
Dr. Odili is husband to Justice Mary Ukaego Peter-Odili of the Supreme Court docket.
