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Speaker 1: Nigeria Aviation Minister Festus Caamo 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 account 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 verbatim 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 Himbo Bom Airline flight number Q one hundred and

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fifty three from Uyo to Lagos 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 end of Fan 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 suurreoce 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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We will not fold our arms and tolerate the debasing

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of womanhood. I have therefore directed that whoever released that

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part of the video containing the indecent exposure amongst the

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staff should be singled out and adequately sanctioned. I have

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also directed that the airlines must continue to train and

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retrain their staff in public relations and how to deal

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with potentially explosive situations in order to diffuse them promptly

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or knit them in the bud except when it becomes inevitable.

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I’ve also directed a joint security meeting between relevant agencies

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next week for better coordination of security measures in situations

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like this or similar ones we witnessed recently. For genuinely

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aggrieved passengers, there are clearly laid down remedies to address grievances.

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The Consumer Protection Directorate of the nc double A has

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consistently advertised these remedies, and there is no point trying

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to take the laws into one’s hands that may lead

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to dire consequences. We will continue to apply equal sanctions

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available to us in aviation on any such airing passengers

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that is lengthy flight bands and report the matters to

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other law enforcement agencies to do their bit within their powers.

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We have reported that a careful study of the viral

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video involving the Imom Airline personnel, legos, airport security operatives

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and an aggrieved passenger Comfort Emanson on board the airline

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plane on Sunday, indicated that while the enraged passenger was

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being dragged off the plane by three men who held

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her two hands and legs, suspending her a little bit

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on the air, a lady putting on Ibom air corporate

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clothes who was behind the camera lens, could be seen

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in the video to have approached the passenger at the

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door point of the plane while the passenger was about

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to be taking out, apparently dipped her hand towards the

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waist part of the passenger, untucked the passenger shirt from

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the trousers, grabden, pulled the passenger’s shirt towards her head,

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and in the process the passenger shirt got tore and

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the passenger’s chest, sexual organs or private parts were completely exposed.

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The action of the Ibom Airline staff appeared to be deliberate,

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as the airline female staff was not part of those

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dragging the passenger off the aircraft, and after the female

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passenger’s body was exposed, the Ibom Airline’s female staff never

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joined or assisted the security operatives to drag the passenger

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off the plane. This indicated that the motive of the

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female’s staff of Ibom Airline was solely to remove the

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passenger sh shirt and expose the aggrieved airline passenger to ridicule.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, madam, and they call everybody learning, but more

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for a maca pi nasa also go out and here

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all stars is standing on the well.

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Speaker 1: One medday, Brenday, you bring me in the mortgages away