Activities were temporarily
halted yesterday at the arrival section of the Murtala Muhammed International
Airport (MMIA), Lagos, following the unruly behaviour of some aides of Nigerian
musician, David Adeleke aka Davido.
According to Sahara reporters, one
of Davido’s aides simply identified as "Kayode” became upset and beat up
an official at the airport for asking him to produce his baggage tags at the
airport.
He later beat up officials of the
Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Aviation Security (AVSEC), a department under
the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and a staff of Checkport over
an attempt to check the tags on the checked luggage of Davido on an Emirates
flight.
It was gathered that Davido who
had arrived the country through an Emirates flight around 5 pm, had 17 checked luggages,
which the aides refused to allow the officials of the Checkport verify with the
attached tags.
Crisis broke out when a Checkport
staff at the airport attempted to verify some of the checked luggage with the
attached tags, but, rather than allow the staff to carry out his official duty,
the aide (Kayode) insisted that he would not allow him to verify the luggage,
which after much arguments and insistence, led to fisticuffs.
Kayode allegedly punched the
Checkport staff on the face, which attracted other security officials at the
terminal who immediately attempted to arrest the aide. But, rather than obey,
he resisted arrest and pummeled another airport staff at the baggage claim
area.
When he seemed uncontrollable,
the security officials mobilized and forced him to a restricted area within the
terminal known as "tango city." Tango City is a place where touts and
unruly persons are detained within the terminal before being transferred to a
police station for further a possible interrogation and possible prosecution.
At Tango City, the aide allegedly
continued his attacks on security officials by hitting a female AVSEC official
who was taking notes of the incident, in the tummy and later pushed another
Customs personnel who landed awkwardly and cut his wrist.
As all these were going on,
Davido who was aware of the on-going crisis inside the terminal ran to hide in
a car outside the terminal where he awaited the release of his aides and
luggage in vain having mobilized some officials with cash to take care of the
problem.
According to Sahara reporters, an
eyewitness disclosed to them that the entire 17 luggage belonging to Davido is yet to be released to him and information gathered indicated that one of the
luggage might contain a huge sum of cash in foreign currencies.
As at the time of filing in this
report, it was not clear if the aide had been transferred to the State CID as
threatened by the security officials, but it can be established that the
luggage are still being withheld by
airport security officials.
The eyewitness said: “Whenever
Davido arrives the airport, he usually leaves his check-in luggage for his
aides to clear. Immediately he arrives on a flight, he goes out and will start
doling out money outside the terminal.
“Today, he arrived as usual with
several luggages and about 17 in all. The rule is that whenever you arrive, you
are expected to release your tags to the Checkport staff for confirmation and
verification, but rather than comply with the simple rule, one of his aides
insisted he won’t allow them to check the tags.
“He rebuffed everyone who were
carrying out their lawful duties and resorted to attack the officials. No fewer
than four officials were beaten by the person in question with at least two of
them soaked in blood.
“When he was uncontrollable, he
was bundled into the cell and he insisted that he must be taken to a police
station. This however, attracted Davido’s attention who was already out of the
terminal. He had to return, but the security officials refused to hand over the
luggage to him. One of the luggages we even gathered contained some money in
foreign currencies.”
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