In 1885 the British colonial regime deported King Jaja of Opobo to a
remote island in West Indies where he died in 1889. His offence was that
he had challenged the imperialist control of the coastal trade.
In 1941, Comrade Michael Imoudu, President of the Nigerian Union of
Railwaymen, was deported from Lagos and banished to his hometown, Auchi
in the Benin Province as he was considered “a potential threat to
public safety”.
