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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Comfort Edmanson Bob, the twenty six years old female passenger
that was recently seen on viral video allegedly attacked and
provoked to action, has said that she sustained injuries in
her private part when a yet to be identified Hibomb
air staff pulled off her shirt and exposed her nakedness
at Legos Airport. This according to Comfort, the shirt torn
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while she was being carried out from the aircraft was
her inner ware that was pinned together below her private part,
saying the Ybom air hostess had allegedly broke her phone
necklace and forcefully removed her wig hair from her head,
which caused her a severe sharp pain, and as a
result of the pain, she hit the air hostess on
the cheek, adding she became more aggressive when she saw
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the airport's staff video recording her nakedness while she was
battling to cover her body as a result of her
shirt that was torn with her chest sexual organs completely exposed.
Comfort Emanson gave her own side of the story in
an eleven minute video she posted did on her Instagram
profile on Sunday, August seventeenth, twenty twenty five, which was
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exactly after one week the incident occurred. She said she
was the one who begged the co passenger to help
switch off her phone when the plane was about to
take off at Uyo Airport, contrary to the narratives painted
by Ibomba Air management that she refused to switch off
her phone and a co passenger on board the plane
forcefully took the phone from her and switched it off,
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and thereafter Comfort Emanson engaged the co passenger and other
staff of the airline in a long war of words
the ibom Air management referred to as tirade. Details of
her statement, as transcribed and presented by Channel's television, reads
verbatim below. Comfort Emanson, an air passenger embroiled in a
controversial ibomb Air incident, has given a detailed account of
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the events on board the flight that led to her arrest, arraignment,
and eventual discharge by Aleegos Court. In a video shared
on her Instagram page on Sunday, a Manson expressed gratitude
to supporters who stood by her during what she described
as a traumatic ordeal. Narrating her version of events, the
real estate consultant recalled that on August tenth, twenty twenty five,
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she boarded a flight from Muyo to Lagos. She alleged
that a disagreement began when a fight attendant identified as
Juliana insisted she switched off her phone rather than place
it in flight mode. According to her, one of her
two phones had a faulty power button. I showed her
the phone and told her the power button was bad.
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She said I could still switch it off through the settings.
With the help of a fellow passenger, I eventually managed
to switch off both phones. She explained. When we landed
in Lagos, everybody was getting out of the aircraft. I
went to pee. Coming outside, everybody had already left. I
had to rush carry my stuff and move to rush
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out of the aircraft. Going out of the aircraft, this
lady Juliana stopped me and I asked her, why did
you stop me? Why are you stopping me from going
out of the aircraft. Everybody has left, so I need
to go out. She didn't say anything to me. She
stared at me with a bad eye. I picked up
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my phone and started recording. That was when she pushed
me back inside the aircraft, dragged my wig frontal, tore
my clothes and broke my necklace. The pain was unbearable.
They dragged me outside. My body was out there, and
then they videoed me in the process. My body was out.
I was looking for where to cover it. All of them,
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the surroundings, like videos, cameras everywhere. I was surprised because
I never expected that, like tearing my clothes and videoing everything,
my body outside, my naked body outside, plus the pain, No,
it was so much for one person to bear. I
started asking her, why would you do that to me?
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Why would you do this too me? And still like
video me again and still put it out there, she recounted.
Emanson said she reacted out of anger after being assaulted,
insisting she did not provoke the attendant. God knows, I
would never poke an elderly woman old enough to be
my mother. It was the pain she inflicted on me,
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dragging my wig and stripping me in public that made
me react. The incident quickly spiraled as security offices intervened.
Videos that later surfaced on line showed Emanson being dragged
off the aircraft with her clothes torn, sparking outrage and ridicule.
They tore my clothes, exposed my body and people were
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taking videos. I felt humiliated, like the trauma is so
much on me because I cannot even go out freely
any more, because my body is out there. Some people
even turned it into stickers, she lamented. Shortly after her
eleven minute long video, Emerson, in a follow up statement
on her Instagram's story, decried the spread of what she
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described as false narratives. There have been lots of narratives
being pushed about the incident, even by respected individuals, some
claiming my suffering was political. These are all false. I
have received constant victimization and libel. I only wish for
redemption and to regain whatever dignity I have left as
a woman, she wrote. Acknowledging her reactions on board, she added,
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I've flown with ibom Ayr for years and never experienced this.
Whatever happened after I was dragged down from the plain
came from a place of pain. My swimsuit was clipped
below my privates and torn. Imagine the pain as a woman.
I would never lay hands on some one old enough
to be my mother if she hadn't assaulted me first,
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I apologize about my behavior. I am not crazy, Neither
am I wayward. I have never been in such a
situation in my life and I don't wish it on
my enemy, she wrote. We had reported that the Federal
Government of Nigeria, under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tenubu,
has ordered the Commissioner of Police in charge of Lagos
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Airport to withdraw the one sided and obviously biased court
case the Nigeria Police Force may have wrongly instituted against
an Ibom Air passenger, Comfort Emanson, who was seen in
viral videos retaliating and defending herself physically after a group
of Ibom Air personnel and Lagos Airport team had attacked
her and provoked her to action. The FG position on
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the issue was made known by the Nigeria Minister of Aviation,
Festus Kamo, in a press release the Minister signed and
made available few minutes ago. Although Festus Kmo reversed his
self and acknowledged that the issue was a case of
confrontation between the twenty six years old passenger and the
staff of Ibam Airlines, who in the new press release
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admit that the staff of Ibom Air and the Lagos
Airport Authority team acted wrongly, but the minister did not
state how the attacked passenger would be compensated, most especially
when her chest sexual organs were seemed to be deliberately
exposed after a suspected Ibom Airline staff pulled off and
tore the passenger shirt with obvious intention to expose the
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passenger's nakedness. The action of the Federal government may ease
the tension among millions of people who have accused the
Nigeria Police Force of aiding and avetting the Ibom Airline
company to continue to attack and oppress the offended passenger,
Comfort Bob, who is also identified as Comfort Emanson, by
thus supporting the statement of Ibom Air management, who in
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their first press released made statement that seems to have
some level of deliberate falsehood and raising up a dead
issue to win undue public sentiments manipulate the Nigeria Police
Force to help them secure detention holding charge from the
Lagos State Magistrate Corps to further oppress and intimidate the
attacked passenger. Specifically, Hibom Air stated in her first press
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release that shortly after the plane landed at Legos Airport,
the passenger waited for every other passenger on board the
plane to disembark and thereafter without provocation, went to one
of the plane hostesses, Juliana Edward, the Ibom Air management
described as purser, stepped on her, forcibly, tore off her wig,
removed her glasses and threw it to the floor, and
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used her footwear to assault her. She slapped her several times,
and when the other cabin crew member tried to intervene,
she slapped her too. She then attempted to forcibly remove
a fire extinguisher to use as a weapon, an act
that could have damaged and grounded the aircraft. Soon after
the Ibom Air management released the statement on Monday, a
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video surfaced on the Internet that probably invalidated the statement
of the Hibom Air management and stood out as an
acceptable evidence that the management of Hibom Air a people
whom me ab rightly described as pathological liars who probably
believed in telling lies as a way of managing crisis
and handling difficult customers' relations. As seen in the viral
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video that surfaced the Internet after the apparent falsehood of
Ibom Air management, the attacked passenger was seen politely telling
the air hostess Juliana Edward, to leave the doorway so
that she can disembark from the plane the seely aggressor
in this matter, the air hostess Juliana Edward refused to
yield to the appeal of the passenger, and IBOM Air
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management in their first press release confirmed that the air
hostess Juliana Edward deliberately blocked the doorway to prevent the
passenger from disembarking the aircraft, and in the viral video,
the attached wighair on the head of the air hostess
was still seen on her head and intact while the
passenger was telling her to leave the doorway so that
she can pass. Obviously, this is in contrary to the
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seemly deliberate falsehood painted and stated in black and white
by the IBOM Air management that the air hostess attack
matched wigair was destroyed by the passenger without provocation. Also,
the attached wighair on the passenger head and the jacket
she was putting on were still intact as at the
time she was telling the apparent aggressor the air hostess
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to leave the door, and another viral video later showed
both the air hostess and the passenger dragging at the
point of the plane divider cotton and at this time,
as seen in the video. Both the passenger and air
hostess Wighair were pulled off, including the passenger jacket she
was putting on to cover her body completely. The natural
hair on their heads could now be seen as they
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continued to drag each other at the plane doorway, and
ibom Air management, in trying to seemly win undue public sentiments,
raised up a dead issue of a minor quarrel the
passenger had with the air hostess and co passenger over
the passenger alleged initial refusal to switch off her phone
during the plane take off at Uyo Airport. The ibom
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Air management in the press release confirmed that the minor
quarrel the passenger had with the air air hostess and
co passenger over switching off phone at Uyo Airport was
already a dead issue and the action of the passenger
never led to threat of aviation safety or violation of
aviation safety procedures. Hence, the passenger was not the plane
at Uyo Airport. But we don't know why the management
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of ibom Air decided to advertise and bring up the
minor quarrel as a way to seemly win public sentiments
to cover up the true picture of a separate event
that occurred between the passenger and the air hostess when
the plane landed at Lagos Airport, and the Nigeria Police
Force in the five count charges filed against the passenger
at the Akeja Magistrate Court in Lagos State did not
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state or even mention the event that occurred at Uyo
Airport before the plane took off. We had reported that
the Nigeria Aviation Minister, Festus Kamo says the Ministry has
directed for the aviation staff who released the video footage
containing the aspect of an Ibam Airlines passenger Comfort Emanson
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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 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
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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
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 divide a cotton which Ibom
Airlines valued at two thousand, five hundred dollars as stated
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in count five of the five count charges the police
filed against the passenger at a Keger magistrate caught in
Lagos State. We had reported that a careful study of
the viral video involving the Ibom Airline personnel, Legos Airport
security operatives and an aggrieved passenger Comfort Emanson on board
the airline plane on Sunday, indicated that while the enraged
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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 lens, 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, apparently dipped her hand
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towards the waist part of the passenger, untuck the passenger
shirt from the trouses, grabden, 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 Ibomb Airline staff
appeared to be deliberate, as the airline female staff was
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not part of those dragging the passenger off the aircraft,
and after the female passenger's body was exposed, the Ibom
Airlines female's staff never joined or assisted the security operatives
to drag the passenger off the plane. This indicated that
the motive of the female staff of Imom Airline was
solely to remove the passenger shirt and expose the aggrieved
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airline passenger to ridicule.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Hello everyone, good morning, good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Believe me in depending on where you're watching me from,
I want to come out like for you to appreciate
God Amasi and everyone that stood by me, that thought
to me when I was in prison. When I came out,
the love I saw, the support I saw from you people.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I was never expecting it. Mefore you come on and
like me. You guys fought to me, you guys stood
by me.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I want to appreciate you, or I said I've got
on my to bless you. So on the turn of
August on Sunday, I bought a reflects from you to Legos.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
So one way it's at the aircraft. More procedure happened.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
The lady Juliana was telling everybody from the front, like
from the front seats from me to the back. Because
I was at the back, so she came to me.
She said I should she came to me. So while
she came to my where she was coming forward. So
she came and I was struggling to like put my phone.
I was putting my phone on flights. So she said, no,
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that I have to put it off. So I thought
her that one of my phones, because I was with
two phones, one of my phones is for a fault
and the phone is bad. The power button is bad precisely,
so I showed her that the power button is. So
she said I can put off my phone without the
power button. I said okay. So she said that you
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go to my setting. So while she was like telling
me go to your settings and all that, I went
to my settings.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
So she said go to your general.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
So while trying to do that, the pressure from us,
so the manda was sitting on my rights now helped
me and off one of the phone, put one of
the phone off while we are struggling on the other
one that has the power bottoms too. So she said,
as you go to the and my general. I went
to the general. I went to the settings and the general.
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So when I told her, okay, please, before then I
told her, please can you assist me and spelled general,
she said she cannot touch my phone. She can never
touch my phone children of nowadays. So I now turned
to the guy that helps me to off the my
one of my phone. I told him, please can you
assist me and spell general. So the guy now collected
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my phone and showed me and spelled like type general
on the this thing.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
So when I went to her like, okay, this is
the general. I am here now.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
So the first that she was giving me was not
even encouraged and I had to like play with the other.
The same guy again on my right. So please can
you please like you know how to like? She said,
you know how to like help me and off it
from me?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Please? She He now said okay, no.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
When helps me and off the phone eventually, so now
off the phone, the two phones, put it away.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
On the aircraft, and I thought that I have off
my phone, so when she wanted to leave, she said,
you'll see, I didn't take that to well because I've
already like eventually offered my phone, which I was having
problem in offering it, so I'm mutually off the phone.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
So that was it.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
When I we landed Legos, everybody was going out of
the aircraft. I was pressed. I went to pee, so
going to the the toilets, somebody was already inside the
toilets and I had to wait for the person to
come out. So when the person retally came out, I
went inside and pee and mostly come out. And I
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cannot stay inside the aircraft inside the toilet because it's
so small and so uncomfortable to be in there. So
I now rosh like pee and impacted myself again and
come outside.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
So coming outside, people already left.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I had to carry my stuffs and moved to rush
out of the aircraft. So going out of the aircraft,
this lady Juliana stopped me, and I asked her, why.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Did you stop?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Why are stopping me from going out of the aircraft.
Everybody has left, so I need to go out. She
didn't say anything to me. She was just like staring
at me with the same path eye. And that was
when I like, now, like remember that this is the
same person that you know was instructing me to put
on my phone. I eventually did so. She said she
didn't say anything. No, she didn't say anything. She just
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like she was just staring at me day with a
bad eyes. So that wasn't I, you know, on my
phone like put the phone started recording. That was she
backed facing the front and parking me. So I was
just like, please, madam, live the lame me past.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
She didn't answer me. She ignored me. And after the video,
I picked the phone.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
When I picked the phone, that was that was when
she noticed I was videoing her. So she now put
inside the aircraft back, dragged my frontier, dragged my frontal.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
This is the frontier I wore that day.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
She dragged the frontier, dragged the frontier, dragged my the
process of dragging my clothes, my gold from neck I
was wearing. This is the gold I was wearing. She
dragged it from my neck with the clothes. The process
like my phone, everything went down and broke. The phone broke,
cut the front broke everything like even this from so.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So I was like, no, why did you do that?
Why did you break my phone?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Like dragged my FRONTI the pain of removing my front tower.
You know how frontal can being stallid hair and then
it's fsily dragged.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's so painful. So the pain of doing that to
me that was when I went to poke her.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
God knows that I can't need go and poke it
an elderly with my somebody is old enough to be
my mom.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Poke her for what pok her?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
It was the pension inflicted on me, the frontal pain,
dragging my gold and everything.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
On the floor.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
That was the anger. I was so angry. I couldn't
even like that was what I was asking why did
you do that? On the video the training video they posted,
why did you do that?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Why did you do that? I asked her, what did you.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Because you dragging my frontal week and like dragging me,
calling me procetituted the process. No, I was just hating
to ask her, why did you do that? Why did
you do that? Although I poked out on the video,
why did you do that? So while on that the
whole thing, like those guys came in from the came
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inside aircraft and like started like surrounding me, and I
was like, why now dragged me outside? That was when
they dragged me, dragging me from the saw. How they
dragged me from the video. That was when I was like,
came inside, dragged me outside, and then at the process,
so now like dragged my clothes, and the clothes it
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was pin on me because it was pin I thought
that was my inner to.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Was pin on me. The pain of dragging it and
it's pain.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
It's wounded me inside out, the pain and everything the
fronts are pain, these other pain. I was just trying
to like help myself when they dragging me out of
trying to cover myself.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
My body was out there.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
And then the way videoing at the process, my body
was out. I was looking for way to cover. Some
of them were like looked like trying to like touch me,
and I was trying to cover myself, feeling myself like
I was the only one day and the way like
surrounding me, trying to cover myself while they were trying
to do video, all of them, the surrounding like videos,
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cameras everywhere.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I was surprised.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I was surprid because like I never expected that like
tearing my clothes and be doing everything me biing me
my body outside and the kid body outside close the pain.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
No, it was so much for one person to pay
so so much on me. I couldn't like hold myself again.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I was just like very angry, started like asking them
why would you do that for me?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Why would you do this to me? Until like video
me again.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I still put it out there like the trauma, like
it's so much on me right now because right.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
As I'm talking to you, like now.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I cannot like even go out again because my body
is out there. People already know that this is the
person they know me. I'm not gonna like go out again.
I'm ashamed to like go out because my body is
out there. Some people are even to use it to
make a sticker. So that was all happening inside the
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aircraft before the incidents that I pooked up.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
She really like inflicted depends on me, which I could not.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Be it's so right now, I don't know how I
will just start from looking for work, going for work interview.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I'm intal real estates.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Imagine me going to sell a house, advertise a house,
or try to bring a client to buy a house
now and they're looking at my body. How do I
even face them knowing that my body is out there?
How how do I face How would I face face
the rule like everybody that saw that video knowing that
my bodies or how do I.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Go like go for for for for business.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Imagine me going for business and somebody is looking all
on my on my own bond kids coming to see
that all my Amanda will marry me saying that my reputation,
I oh fuss.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
That's the way.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
The reason why I've not come out to saying the
part of the story is because I was still on treatment.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I will still on treatment.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I'm trying to round o my treatments can stay like
I'm trying to render my treatsment. That's why I could
not come out to say the part of the story
will happened. So that was what's happened inside that flag.
This wasn't even like a big deal. I never even liked.
I never expected that. That's incident often a from which
I was trying to not like. When she said that
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she worked the phone, I was like telling her, I no,
I told her why the phone was still on, that
it was because of the power button, So I never
like know that to come out like this seeing my
body outside. People are even making mo clear of missing
they missed insteadram, WhatsApp, Facebook.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
My body is out there, so I don't know how
I'll go for me and I.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I really want to continue my life, my normal lifestyle.
People that knows me knows that I am not really
really a social media person. So I don't know how
to face the whole like people that saw my video,
my family, people that saw the video, facing the I'm
doing business with them, for me to do business, and
somebody's watching my body, it's very embarrassing. I don't even
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know how to come and board with that. So this
is the part of the story. This is all that
happened inside the aircraft. So I'm happy I'm strong enough
to be able to talk now, So please this happened.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I'm not a trouble person.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I am not amused, and people that are not me
in real life they know the kind of person I am.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
So that was what.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Happened inside the aircraft, which I never expecter than to
be like scalets like this because not like I refuse,
this is not the first time I'm traveling.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I never refused to off the phone.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I only told her that my power button is bad
and I needed her assistance to do that, which she refused.
Bought the passenger that was sitting close to me assisted
me eventually off the phone.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So I thought that that was it.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
So please, this is what happened, and I'm happy I've
come up to tell you people who happened. But I'll
still I'll round up my treatment and I pressure fully
recover from everything and move forward and go back to
my normal lifestyle. Please, thank you very much, and God
bless you.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Bring the mortgage is Undy