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Speaker 1: Nigeria Aviation Minister, Festus Chamo says the Ministry has directed

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for the aviation staff who released the video footage containing

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the aspect of an Ibom Airlines passenger Comfort Emanson or

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Bob scene in an indecent appearance with her chest sexual

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organs exposed after the passenger shirt was torn by an

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Ibom Airline staff while security operatives were seen in the

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viral video dragging the aggrieved passenger out of the aircraft

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following an act of confrontation between the passenger and Ibom

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Airlines hostesses which one of the hostesses blocked the right

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of way of the passenger and prevented the passenger from

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disembarking from the plane and after countless warning to the

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airline passenger to leave the road, the passenger went physical

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with the hostess by allegedly slapping her on the face,

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which the confrontation with the hostess apparently led to the

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alleged destruction of the plane divider cotton, which Hibom Airlines

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valued at two thousand, five hundred dollars as stated in

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count five of the five count charges the police filed

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against the passenger at a Keja magistrate caught in Lagos State.

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The Aviation Minister Festus Kamo, who described the behavior of

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the passenger as unruly, said, although the airline staff is

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right to video record the event of the passenger’s behavior

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for the purpose of legal action, but it is totally

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unacceptable for the staff to release part of the video

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that exposed the passenger’s nakedness, especially her breasts. Details of

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the minister’s statement reads verbatum below. Enough is enough reading

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the Riot Act on Aviation Safety and Security in reference

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to the case of unruly Comfort Bob on Ibom Airline

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and related incidents. Earlier today, we again woke up to

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viral videos of a female passenger on Ibom Airline, now

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identified as Comfort Emanson or Comfort Bob, who went berserk

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and physically assaulted both the flight crew and the ground staff.

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The incident took place yesterday, August tenth, twenty twenty five,

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on Iimbo Bomb Airline flight number Q one hundred and

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fifty three from Uyo to Legos at about fourteen fifty

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four hours. Ibom Airline has since issued a statement to

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provide some context to the effect that the whole unfortunate

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incident arose because of the refusal of the passenger to

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switch off her phone during take off as required by

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extant international civil aviation regulations. Consequently, in the last few hours,

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I have been speaking with the Commissioner of Police of

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the Airport Police Command, the DG of the NC double

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A and his team, the nd of Faan and her team,

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the COO of Ibom Air and his team about the incident.

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Apart from the indefinite flight ban imposed on the said

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unruly passenger both local and international by the Nigeria Civil

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Aviation Authority NC double A, the police has promptly arranged

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her this morning at the Akeja Magistrates caught for criminal

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offenses and remanded her at Kirikiri Prisons that she could

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not provide adequate surety in court. I have attached the

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charge sheet and remand order for clarity. We also note

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the scuffle that took place between the unruly passenger and

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ground personnel before she was eventually subdued. This was because

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of her uncooperative attitude. Whilst we support the filming of

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her recalcitrant behavior as evidence to prosecute her, what is

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deplorable is to release such evidence containing indecent exposure to

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the public to ridicule her that is totally unacceptable to us.

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A careful study of the viral video involving the Ibomb

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Airline personnel, Legos Airport’s security operatives and an aggrieved passenger

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comfort E Manson on board the airline plane on Sunday,

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indicated that while the enraged passenger was being dragged off

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the plane by three men who held her two hands

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and legs, suspending her a little bit on the air,

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a lady putting on Ibomb air corporate clothes who was

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behind the camera ends, could be seen in the video

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to have approached the passenger at the door point of

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the plane while the passenger was about to be taking out,

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apparently dipped her hand towards the waist part of the

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passenger untock the passenger shirt from the trousies, grabbd and

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pulled the passenger’s shirt towards her head, and in the

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process the passenger shirt got tore and the passenger’s chest,

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sexual organs or private parts were completely exposed. The action

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of the Ibom Airline staff appeared to be deliberate, as

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the airline female staff was not part of those dragging

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the passenger off the aircraft, and after the female passenger’s

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body was exposed. The Ibom Airline’s female staff never joined

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or assisted the security operatives to drag the passenger off

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the plane. This indicated that the motive of the female’s

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staff of Ibom Airline was solely to remove the passenger

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shirt and expose the aggrieved airline passenger to ridicule. The

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video of the passenger’s partial nakedness, especially her two breasts

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completely exposed due to the apparent action of a yet

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to be arrested and prosecuted female’s staff of Ibomb Airlines

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has since gone viral, with some pornographic channels already updating

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their channels with the partial nakedness of the Ibom Airlines passenger.

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According to Punch newspaper, Comfort Emanson, the passenger accused of

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assaulting airline officials aboard an ibamair flight from Uyo to Lagos,

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has been charged in court and remanded in Kirrikiri Correctional

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Center in Lagos. Sunday Machud, Special Adviser on Media and

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Communications to the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development Festus

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kmo Sam, confirmed the development in a post on his

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official ex handle on Monday. The more reason the flying

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public should be more careful. The unruly passenger on the Yuyo,

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Lagos bound Ibomair miscomfort Edmanson, has been charged to court

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and she’s now cooling off in Kirrikiri, Mashoud wrote. Ibom

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Air in a press statement on Monday, said that ibom

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Are confirms that on Sunday, August tenth, twenty twenty five,

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an incident occurred on board our Uyo Lagos flight involving

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a passenger, Comfort Emanson, whose conduct posed a serious threat

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to the safety of our crew, passengers and aircraft. Shortly

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before takeoff from Uyo, Emanson was instructed, in line with

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standard aviation safety procedures, to switch off her mobile phone.

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She bluntly refused to comply until the pilot in command

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made an announcement, after which a fellow passenger seated beside

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her took the phone and switched it off. This action

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prompted a verbal tirade from Emanson. The situation was eventually

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calmed and the flight departed as scheduled. Upon arrival in Lagos,

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Emanson waited for all other passengers to disembark, and then

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proceeded to confront the purser who had earlier instructed her.

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She walked up to the unsuspecting purser stepped on her

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forcibly tore off her wig removed her glasses and threw

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it to the floor and used her footwear to assault her.

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Management of National Youth Service Corps under the leadership of

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Brigadier General Holukunley Nephew has given reasons y serving Nigeria

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Youth Corps member Rhier Reta Aguamaye was denied NYSC discharge

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certificate that could have enabled her exit the one year

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mandatory program after she completed the one year paramilitary service

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to her nation as a new graduate and according to

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a statement posted and made available by NYSC on Sunday

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with no name of the authority responsible for the press

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statement written or mentioned in the statement, the NYSC said

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Corps member Retur Aguamei’s discharge certificate was withheld and her

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service year extended by two months following her alleged absence

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or failure to attend the April twenty twenty five NYSC

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biometrics clearance at etiosa Local Government Area Secretariat, and the

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month stated by NYSC was barely few days after the

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Corps member had cried out loud in SI the month

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of March twenty twenty five over the apparent increasing high

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rates of hunger as a result of rising costs of

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living in Nigeria, and as such, she described the President

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Bola Ahmed Tenubu as a terrible president. In a swift

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reaction to the reason given by NYSC, Rita Aguamee’s lawyer,

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Barrister in nibihe F Young, while answering questions from channel’s

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television program presenters on Monday morning, said the statement issued

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by the management of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC

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on its decision to extend the service period and withhold

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the certificate of National Service of Corps member Hashie Rita

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Aguamaye alias Raye, does not represent the truth of the matter,

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saying on April seventh, twenty twenty five, Rita was physically

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present at the Local Government Secretariat for the head count

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and clearance with the nys C official at the local

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government level deliberately refused to attend to her, even after

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six hours waiting, during which she was asked to go

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back and queued up on the line repeatedly, the NYSC

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officials still refused to attend to her and thereafter on

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April eleventh, twenty twenty five, the core member went to

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meet the NYSC official and begged her to allow her

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perform her April twenty twenty five biometrics clearance. The NYSC

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female official refused and asked the corps member to leave.

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This Amnesty International said the National Youth Service Corps NYSC

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must rescind its decision. The Amnesty International described as arbitrary

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and outrageous, saying NYSC allegedly used bureaucratic tricks to extend

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the core member national service year over the government’s unacceptable

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intolerance of dissenting voices, with former Nigeria Vice President Atiku

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Abubaka describing the NYSC action as impunity and as such

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cautioned the government against subjecting everything to politics. And on

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Monday morning, the former governor of an Amba State, Peter Hobey,

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issued a statement and said, in our country today, hunger

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and poverty are not just distant statistics. They are the

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harsh reality that millions of our people face daily. Recently,

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the United Nations stated that about thirty four million Nigerians

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will face acute food insecurity and about sixty three percent

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of our population, which is about one hundred and thirty

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three million people now live in multi dimensional poverty inflation,

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even with the suppressed statistics bringing bring in a mortgage

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way