The Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has threatened to expose information from the Senators WhatsApp forum if her deleted comments are not reposted.
Natasha took to her official Facebook page to call out her colleague, Senator Osita Ngwu, representing Enugu West Senatorial District, for locking comments in the WhatsApp group.
She wrote on Facebook, “Dear Senator Osita Ngwu of Enugu West Senatorial District, you will open responses in the Senators WhatsApp forum and repost my deleted comments. Else I’ll bring the discussion to the public domain.”
Recall that Natasha recently decried the rate at which she is being harassed by government officials, especially immigration officers.
In a new video she uploaded on her Facebook account, the Kogi senator was captured at the airport asking why her passport was seized. She explained that after spending two years in office as a senator, she decided to take a week off by travelling out.
The video also showed immigration officers making calls while the senator kept asking what her offence was. The officers could be heard apologising to Natasha, but she rejected the apology and insisted they release her passport.
She questioned why she was constantly harassed whenever she wanted to embark on a journey.
Natasha added that the last time her passport was seized, it took a call to an influential person before it was released.
She also accused the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, of instructing the Comptroller-General of Customs to deny her exit and entry because she was allegedly smearing the country’s image through her interviews.
The senator said there was no court order, and the case brought against her had been withdrawn following the intervention of President Tinubu, who instructed Akpabio to stop the case because it was allegedly political.
She said, “There is no order from the court to withhold my passport and deny me travelling.”
She added, “You have no right to withhold my passport and deny me entry and exit into my country.”
Her passport was later released to her, a development she said was made possible because she went live on video during the incident.
