The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has banned two Officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), permanently, from operating in any Airport in Nigeria, for extorting the sum of N8000 from a passenger at the Murtala International Airport Lagos.

A Press Statement issued by the Acting General Manager of FAAN, Mrs. Faithful Hope-Ivbaze, disclosed that the officers were fingered for alleged corruption and extortion of a 14-year-old girl who was traveling to Canada, at the Murtala International Airport, Lagos.

The FAAN spokesperson said that a team of FAAN Aviation Security officers investigated the allegation, following a tweeted allegation on February 19, 2022, by mother of a 14-year old girl travelling on Lufthansa Airline that the two immigration officials extorted N8000 from her daughter.

According to her, “Upon investigation, they found the allegation to be true, as the officers involved were identified with the help of footages on our CCTV facility, and the cooperation from the Nigerian Immigration Service.”

‘’Consequently, the officers were made to refund the exact amount collected from the passenger.”

“Their on-duty cards were also withdrawn permanently, and they have been banned from working in any Nigerian airport to serve as deterrent to others,’’ Hope-Ivbaze said.

The FAAN spokesperson commended mother of the victim, who has confirmed receipt of the money and for deeming it fit to escalate the case as well as assisting FAAN tremendously in the course of the investigation.