Ken Okeke
The management of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, has dismissed a video circulating on social media where a supposed staff of the Authority was knelt down and was being slapped by a passenger for trying to use him to traffic drug.
The incident took place at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at about 1430hrs at gate 2 boarding gate at ITZ2.
In setting the record straight the Authority states that the officer being manhandled in the video is not a staff of FAAN but has been identified as a member of the staff of Pathfinder company.
The employee was said to have approached a passenger to help him convey a parcel through the flight.
When the passenger became skeptical, he raised an alarm, alleging that he was being set up for drug trafficking.
The employee was immediately arrested for questioning by the Crime Investigation and Intelligence Unit of the Aviation Security Services.
The passenger involved has since departed on Ibom Air to Accra while the medication with the name “NEW AGE GLUCOSAMINE CHONDROITIN SULFATE COMPLEX ” has been taken to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA) for further investigation.
FAAN restates that it is dedicated to a drug-free society and has zero tolerance to drug peddling through her airports.