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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nigeria Aviation Minister, Festus Chamo says the Ministry has directed
for the aviation staff who released the video footage containing
the aspect of an Ibom Airlines passenger Comfort Emanson or
Bob scene in an indecent appearance with her chest sexual
organs exposed after the passenger shirt was torn by an
Ibom Airline staff while security operatives were seen in the
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viral video dragging the aggrieved passenger out of the aircraft
following an act of confrontation between the passenger and Ibom
Airlines hostesses which one of the hostesses blocked the right
of way of the passenger and prevented the passenger from
disembarking from the plane and after countless warning to the
airline passenger to leave the road, the passenger went physical
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with the hostess by allegedly slapping her on the face,
which the confrontation with the hostess apparently led to the
alleged destruction of the plane divider cotton, which Hibom Airlines
valued at two thousand, five hundred dollars as stated in
count five of the five count charges the police filed
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
the passenger as unruly, said, although the airline staff is
right to video record the event of the passenger's behavior
for the purpose of legal action, but it is totally
unacceptable for the staff to release part of the video
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
the Riot Act on Aviation Safety and Security in reference
to the case of unruly Comfort Bob on Ibom Airline
and related incidents. Earlier today, we again woke up to
viral videos of a female passenger on Ibom Airline, now
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.
The incident took place yesterday, August tenth, twenty twenty five,
on Iimbo Bomb Airline flight number Q one hundred and
fifty three from Uyo to Legos at about fourteen fifty
four hours. Ibom Airline has since issued a statement to
provide some context to the effect that the whole unfortunate
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incident arose because of the refusal of the passenger to
switch off her phone during take off as required by
extant international civil aviation regulations. Consequently, in the last few hours,
I have been speaking with the Commissioner of Police of
the Airport Police Command, the DG of the NC double
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.
Apart from the indefinite flight ban imposed on the said
unruly passenger both local and international by the Nigeria Civil
Aviation Authority NC double A, the police has promptly arranged
her this morning at the Akeja Magistrates caught for criminal
offenses and remanded her at Kirikiri Prisons that she could
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not provide adequate surety in court. I have attached the
charge sheet and remand order for clarity. We also note
the scuffle that took place between the unruly passenger and
ground personnel before she was eventually subdued. This was because
of her uncooperative attitude. Whilst we support the filming of
her recalcitrant behavior as evidence to prosecute her, what is
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deplorable is to release such evidence containing indecent exposure to
the public to ridicule her that is totally unacceptable to us.
A careful study of the viral video involving the Ibomb
Airline personnel, Legos Airport's security operatives and an aggrieved passenger
comfort E Manson on board the airline plane on Sunday,
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indicated that while the enraged passenger was being dragged off
the plane by three men who held her two hands
and legs, suspending her a little bit on the air,
a lady putting on Ibomb air corporate clothes who was
behind the camera ends, could be seen in the video
to have approached the passenger at the door point of
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
passenger untock the passenger shirt from the trousies, grabbd and
pulled the passenger's shirt towards her head, and in the
process the passenger shirt got tore and the passenger's chest,
sexual organs or private parts were completely exposed. The action
of the Ibom Airline staff appeared to be deliberate, as
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the airline female staff was not part of those dragging
the passenger off the aircraft, and after the female passenger's
body was exposed. The Ibom Airline's female staff never joined
or assisted the security operatives to drag the passenger off
the plane. This indicated that the motive of the female's
staff of Ibom Airline was solely to remove the passenger
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shirt and expose the aggrieved airline passenger to ridicule. The
video of the passenger's partial nakedness, especially her two breasts
completely exposed due to the apparent action of a yet
to be arrested and prosecuted female's staff of Ibomb Airlines
has since gone viral, with some pornographic channels already updating
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
assaulting airline officials aboard an ibamair flight from Uyo to Lagos,
has been charged in court and remanded in Kirrikiri Correctional
Center in Lagos. Sunday Machud, Special Adviser on Media and
Communications to the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development Festus
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kmo Sam, confirmed the development in a post on his
official ex handle on Monday. The more reason the flying
public should be more careful. The unruly passenger on the Yuyo,
Lagos bound Ibomair miscomfort Edmanson, has been charged to court
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
Are confirms that on Sunday, August tenth, twenty twenty five,
an incident occurred on board our Uyo Lagos flight involving
a passenger, Comfort Emanson, whose conduct posed a serious threat
to the safety of our crew, passengers and aircraft. Shortly
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before takeoff from Uyo, Emanson was instructed, in line with
standard aviation safety procedures, to switch off her mobile phone.
She bluntly refused to comply until the pilot in command
made an announcement, after which a fellow passenger seated beside
her took the phone and switched it off. This action
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,
Emanson waited for all other passengers to disembark, and then
proceeded to confront the purser who had earlier instructed her.
She walked up to the unsuspecting purser stepped on her
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.
Management of National Youth Service Corps under the leadership of
Brigadier General Holukunley Nephew has given reasons y serving Nigeria
Youth Corps member Rhier Reta Aguamaye was denied NYSC discharge
certificate that could have enabled her exit the one year
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mandatory program after she completed the one year paramilitary service
to her nation as a new graduate and according to
a statement posted and made available by NYSC on Sunday
with no name of the authority responsible for the press
statement written or mentioned in the statement, the NYSC said
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
or failure to attend the April twenty twenty five NYSC
biometrics clearance at etiosa Local Government Area Secretariat, and the
month stated by NYSC was barely few days after the
Corps member had cried out loud in SI the month
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of March twenty twenty five over the apparent increasing high
rates of hunger as a result of rising costs of
living in Nigeria, and as such, she described the President
Bola Ahmed Tenubu as a terrible president. In a swift
reaction to the reason given by NYSC, Rita Aguamee's lawyer,
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
by the management of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC
on its decision to extend the service period and withhold
the certificate of National Service of Corps member Hashie Rita
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
present at the Local Government Secretariat for the head count
and clearance with the nys C official at the local
government level deliberately refused to attend to her, even after
six hours waiting, during which she was asked to go
back and queued up on the line repeatedly, the NYSC
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officials still refused to attend to her and thereafter on
April eleventh, twenty twenty five, the core member went to
meet the NYSC official and begged her to allow her
perform her April twenty twenty five biometrics clearance. The NYSC
female official refused and asked the corps member to leave.
This Amnesty International said the National Youth Service Corps NYSC
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must rescind its decision. The Amnesty International described as arbitrary
and outrageous, saying NYSC allegedly used bureaucratic tricks to extend
the core member national service year over the government's unacceptable
intolerance of dissenting voices, with former Nigeria Vice President Atiku
Abubaka describing the NYSC action as impunity and as such
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cautioned the government against subjecting everything to politics. And on
Monday morning, the former governor of an Amba State, Peter Hobey,
issued a statement and said, in our country today, hunger
and poverty are not just distant statistics. They are the
harsh reality that millions of our people face daily. Recently,
the United Nations stated that about thirty four million Nigerians
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will face acute food insecurity and about sixty three percent
of our population, which is about one hundred and thirty
three million people now live in multi dimensional poverty inflation,
even with the suppressed statistics bringing bring in a mortgage
way