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- Physical unit and maltreatment against airdrome unit volition not beryllium condoned, Bi-Courtney has warned
- The airdrome relation decried respective incidents of frustrated passengers taking it retired connected the airdrome staff
- It besides listed retired its adjacent enactment of enactment against offending passengers who person assaulted unit connected duty
Legit.ng writer Ruth Okwumbu-Imafidon has implicit a decennary of acquisition successful business reporting crossed integer and mainstream media.
In effect to respective incidents of carnal and verbal maltreatment of airdrome staff, the operators of Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal Two, Lagos, person issued a stern informing to aerial travellers.
Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), the relation successful complaint of the Lagos airport, raised concerns astir recurring cases of unit successful its terminal, particularly coming from passengers against staff.
BASL noted that it has zero tolerance for unit oregon maltreatment of unit who are lone performing their duties, and would instrumentality enactment connected immoderate specified occurrence henceforth.
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The informing was contained successful a connection signed by the BASL Head of Corporate Communications, Ajoke Yinka-Olawuyi.
Passenger assaults airdrome unit
The operator referred to a caller incidence connected Sunday April 20, 2025 astatine astir 13:18hrs erstwhile an altercation arose astatine the check-in antagonistic owed to delays caused by strategy error.
Efforts to amicably resoluteness the contented led to a antheral rider physically assaulting an aviation information serviceman connected duty.
The connection noted that determination had been akin occurrences successful the past, adjacent successful December 2024, wherever different unit subordinate connected work was assaulted, the PUNCH reports.
Yinka-Olawuyi said successful the connection that the offending passengers person been arrested and handed implicit to the constabulary for further investigations and indispensable ineligible action.
She said successful the statement;
“BASL volition proceed to travel up connected the lawsuit to guarantee justness is served. We are profoundly acrophobic by the recurrence of specified attacks connected our unit and volition not hesitate to instrumentality decisive enactment to support each individuals who enactment astatine MMA2.”Passengers urged to resoluteness disputes amicably
The Terminal 2 operators urged passengers to ever respect the instrumentality and airdrome unit portion trying to resoluteness disputes.
BASL insisted that airdrome unit volition beryllium treated with dignity and with zero tolerance for violence.
Legit.ng reported that the airdrome relation had accrued the car parkland and lounge work fees astatine the airport causing disaffection from travellers.
Airport workers embark connected onslaught
In a caller development, workers astatine the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos Terminal Two (MMA2) unopen down services.
This was to protestation the sack of 1 of their colleagues by the airdrome operator, Bi-Courtney Aviation Services.
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The enactment of the aggrieved workers disrupted booked flights, pushing passengers to their wits' end.
NCAA sets up mobile courts for offending passengers
In a bid to clamp down connected unruly passengers who vandalise airdrome facilities oregon battle hose staff, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) threatened pugnacious sanctions.
The NCAA planned to enforce penalties done the constitution of magistrates and mobile courts astatine airports.
It added that specified passengers would beryllium arrested, prosecuted, and made to wage for damages caused.
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