Odili: Court threatens to sanction Nigerian Immigration's lawyer over contempt

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Officials of the immigration service had confiscated Mr Odili’s passport at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport in Abuja upon his arrival from a trip to the United Kingdom on 20 June, 2021.

Following the seizure of the travelling document, Mr Odili, who said the reason for the seizure was not disclosed to him, sued the NIS and its Comptroller-General so as to retrieve his passport.

At a post-judgement sitting on Friday, the court issued a stern warning to the NIS lawyer, Mr Adamu, asking him to appear in court to defend allegations of “unprofessional conduct” levelled against him. “This honourable court knows what to do and how to do it but in the interest of fair hearing, I am giving him another chance. Let him deny himself fair hearing, then, the court will take necessary steps,” Mr Ekwo said.

He added that Mr Adamu had consistently failed to attend court despite being served with a hearing notice in relation to his pending motion.Backstory Mr Odili said his traveling documents were checked and returned to him, but while waiting for his luggage, an official of NIS demanded his passport for a routine check.According to the ex-governor, he gave the passport to the official who never returned it.

 

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