Speaker 1: Nigeria Aviation Minister, Festus Chamo says the Ministry has directed
Speaker 1: for the aviation staff who released the video footage containing
Speaker 1: the aspect of an Ibom Airlines passenger Comfort Emanson or
Speaker 1: Bob scene in an indecent appearance with her chest sexual
Speaker 1: organs exposed after the passenger shirt was torn by an
Speaker 1: Ibom Airline staff while security operatives were seen in the
Speaker 1: viral video dragging the aggrieved passenger out of the aircraft
Speaker 1: following an act of confrontation between the passenger and Ibom
Speaker 1: Airlines hostesses which one of the hostesses blocked the right
Speaker 1: of way of the passenger and prevented the passenger from
Speaker 1: disembarking from the plane and after countless warning to the
Speaker 1: airline passenger to leave the road, the passenger went physical
Speaker 1: with the hostess by allegedly slapping her on the face,
Speaker 1: which the confrontation with the hostess apparently led to the
Speaker 1: alleged destruction of the plane divider cotton, which Hibom Airlines
Speaker 1: valued at two thousand, five hundred dollars as stated in
Speaker 1: count five of the five count charges the police filed
Speaker 1: against the passenger at a Keja magistrate caught in Lagos State.
Speaker 1: The Aviation Minister Festus Kamo, who described the behavior of
Speaker 1: the passenger as unruly, said, although the airline staff is
Speaker 1: right to video record the event of the passenger's behavior
Speaker 1: for the purpose of legal action, but it is totally
Speaker 1: unacceptable for the staff to release part of the video
Speaker 1: that exposed the passenger's nakedness, especially her breasts. Details of
Speaker 1: the minister's statement reads verbatum below. Enough is enough reading
Speaker 1: the Riot Act on Aviation Safety and Security in reference
Speaker 1: to the case of unruly Comfort Bob on Ibom Airline
Speaker 1: and related incidents. Earlier today, we again woke up to
Speaker 1: viral videos of a female passenger on Ibom Airline, now
Speaker 1: identified as Comfort Emanson or Comfort Bob, who went berserk
Speaker 1: and physically assaulted both the flight crew and the ground staff.
Speaker 1: The incident took place yesterday, August tenth, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: on Iimbo Bomb Airline flight number Q one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty three from Uyo to Legos at about fourteen fifty
Speaker 1: four hours. Ibom Airline has since issued a statement to
Speaker 1: provide some context to the effect that the whole unfortunate
Speaker 1: incident arose because of the refusal of the passenger to
Speaker 1: switch off her phone during take off as required by
Speaker 1: extant international civil aviation regulations. Consequently, in the last few hours,
Speaker 1: I have been speaking with the Commissioner of Police of
Speaker 1: the Airport Police Command, the DG of the NC double
Speaker 1: A and his team, the nd of Faan and her team,
Speaker 1: the COO of Ibom Air and his team about the incident.
Speaker 1: Apart from the indefinite flight ban imposed on the said
Speaker 1: unruly passenger both local and international by the Nigeria Civil
Speaker 1: Aviation Authority NC double A, the police has promptly arranged
Speaker 1: her this morning at the Akeja Magistrates caught for criminal
Speaker 1: offenses and remanded her at Kirikiri Prisons that she could
Speaker 1: not provide adequate surety in court. I have attached the
Speaker 1: charge sheet and remand order for clarity. We also note
Speaker 1: the scuffle that took place between the unruly passenger and
Speaker 1: ground personnel before she was eventually subdued. This was because
Speaker 1: of her uncooperative attitude. Whilst we support the filming of
Speaker 1: her recalcitrant behavior as evidence to prosecute her, what is
Speaker 1: deplorable is to release such evidence containing indecent exposure to
Speaker 1: the public to ridicule her that is totally unacceptable to us.
Speaker 1: A careful study of the viral video involving the Ibomb
Speaker 1: Airline personnel, Legos Airport's security operatives and an aggrieved passenger
Speaker 1: comfort E Manson on board the airline plane on Sunday,
Speaker 1: indicated that while the enraged passenger was being dragged off
Speaker 1: the plane by three men who held her two hands
Speaker 1: and legs, suspending her a little bit on the air,
Speaker 1: a lady putting on Ibomb air corporate clothes who was
Speaker 1: behind the camera ends, could be seen in the video
Speaker 1: to have approached the passenger at the door point of
Speaker 1: the plane while the passenger was about to be taking out,
Speaker 1: apparently dipped her hand towards the waist part of the
Speaker 1: passenger untock the passenger shirt from the trousies, grabbd and
Speaker 1: pulled the passenger's shirt towards her head, and in the
Speaker 1: process the passenger shirt got tore and the passenger's chest,
Speaker 1: sexual organs or private parts were completely exposed. The action
Speaker 1: of the Ibom Airline staff appeared to be deliberate, as
Speaker 1: the airline female staff was not part of those dragging
Speaker 1: the passenger off the aircraft, and after the female passenger's
Speaker 1: body was exposed. The Ibom Airline's female staff never joined
Speaker 1: or assisted the security operatives to drag the passenger off
Speaker 1: the plane. This indicated that the motive of the female's
Speaker 1: staff of Ibom Airline was solely to remove the passenger
Speaker 1: shirt and expose the aggrieved airline passenger to ridicule. The
Speaker 1: video of the passenger's partial nakedness, especially her two breasts
Speaker 1: completely exposed due to the apparent action of a yet
Speaker 1: to be arrested and prosecuted female's staff of Ibomb Airlines
Speaker 1: has since gone viral, with some pornographic channels already updating
Speaker 1: their channels with the partial nakedness of the Ibom Airlines passenger.
Speaker 1: According to Punch newspaper, Comfort Emanson, the passenger accused of
Speaker 1: assaulting airline officials aboard an ibamair flight from Uyo to Lagos,
Speaker 1: has been charged in court and remanded in Kirrikiri Correctional
Speaker 1: Center in Lagos. Sunday Machud, Special Adviser on Media and
Speaker 1: Communications to the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development Festus
Speaker 1: kmo Sam, confirmed the development in a post on his
Speaker 1: official ex handle on Monday. The more reason the flying
Speaker 1: public should be more careful. The unruly passenger on the Yuyo,
Speaker 1: Lagos bound Ibomair miscomfort Edmanson, has been charged to court
Speaker 1: and she's now cooling off in Kirrikiri, Mashoud wrote. Ibom
Speaker 1: Air in a press statement on Monday, said that ibom
Speaker 1: Are confirms that on Sunday, August tenth, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: an incident occurred on board our Uyo Lagos flight involving
Speaker 1: a passenger, Comfort Emanson, whose conduct posed a serious threat
Speaker 1: to the safety of our crew, passengers and aircraft. Shortly
Speaker 1: before takeoff from Uyo, Emanson was instructed, in line with
Speaker 1: standard aviation safety procedures, to switch off her mobile phone.
Speaker 1: She bluntly refused to comply until the pilot in command
Speaker 1: made an announcement, after which a fellow passenger seated beside
Speaker 1: her took the phone and switched it off. This action
Speaker 1: prompted a verbal tirade from Emanson. The situation was eventually
Speaker 1: calmed and the flight departed as scheduled. Upon arrival in Lagos,
Speaker 1: Emanson waited for all other passengers to disembark, and then
Speaker 1: proceeded to confront the purser who had earlier instructed her.
Speaker 1: She walked up to the unsuspecting purser stepped on her
Speaker 1: forcibly tore off her wig removed her glasses and threw
Speaker 1: it to the floor and used her footwear to assault her.
Speaker 1: Management of National Youth Service Corps under the leadership of
Speaker 1: Brigadier General Holukunley Nephew has given reasons y serving Nigeria
Speaker 1: Youth Corps member Rhier Reta Aguamaye was denied NYSC discharge
Speaker 1: certificate that could have enabled her exit the one year
Speaker 1: mandatory program after she completed the one year paramilitary service
Speaker 1: to her nation as a new graduate and according to
Speaker 1: a statement posted and made available by NYSC on Sunday
Speaker 1: with no name of the authority responsible for the press
Speaker 1: statement written or mentioned in the statement, the NYSC said
Speaker 1: Corps member Retur Aguamei's discharge certificate was withheld and her
Speaker 1: service year extended by two months following her alleged absence
Speaker 1: or failure to attend the April twenty twenty five NYSC
Speaker 1: biometrics clearance at etiosa Local Government Area Secretariat, and the
Speaker 1: month stated by NYSC was barely few days after the
Speaker 1: Corps member had cried out loud in SI the month
Speaker 1: of March twenty twenty five over the apparent increasing high
Speaker 1: rates of hunger as a result of rising costs of
Speaker 1: living in Nigeria, and as such, she described the President
Speaker 1: Bola Ahmed Tenubu as a terrible president. In a swift
Speaker 1: reaction to the reason given by NYSC, Rita Aguamee's lawyer,
Speaker 1: Barrister in nibihe F Young, while answering questions from channel's
Speaker 1: television program presenters on Monday morning, said the statement issued
Speaker 1: by the management of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC
Speaker 1: on its decision to extend the service period and withhold
Speaker 1: the certificate of National Service of Corps member Hashie Rita
Speaker 1: Aguamaye alias Raye, does not represent the truth of the matter,
Speaker 1: saying on April seventh, twenty twenty five, Rita was physically
Speaker 1: present at the Local Government Secretariat for the head count
Speaker 1: and clearance with the nys C official at the local
Speaker 1: government level deliberately refused to attend to her, even after
Speaker 1: six hours waiting, during which she was asked to go
Speaker 1: back and queued up on the line repeatedly, the NYSC
Speaker 1: officials still refused to attend to her and thereafter on
Speaker 1: April eleventh, twenty twenty five, the core member went to
Speaker 1: meet the NYSC official and begged her to allow her
Speaker 1: perform her April twenty twenty five biometrics clearance. The NYSC
Speaker 1: female official refused and asked the corps member to leave.
Speaker 1: This Amnesty International said the National Youth Service Corps NYSC
Speaker 1: must rescind its decision. The Amnesty International described as arbitrary
Speaker 1: and outrageous, saying NYSC allegedly used bureaucratic tricks to extend
Speaker 1: the core member national service year over the government's unacceptable
Speaker 1: intolerance of dissenting voices, with former Nigeria Vice President Atiku
Speaker 1: Abubaka describing the NYSC action as impunity and as such
Speaker 1: cautioned the government against subjecting everything to politics. And on
Speaker 1: Monday morning, the former governor of an Amba State, Peter Hobey,
Speaker 1: issued a statement and said, in our country today, hunger
Speaker 1: and poverty are not just distant statistics. They are the
Speaker 1: harsh reality that millions of our people face daily. Recently,
Speaker 1: the United Nations stated that about thirty four million Nigerians
Speaker 1: will face acute food insecurity and about sixty three percent
Speaker 1: of our population, which is about one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: three million people now live in multi dimensional poverty inflation,
Speaker 1: even with the suppressed statistics bringing bring in a mortgage
Speaker 1: way