A Nigerian actor, Chris Bassey, was
arrested recently when he disrupted an Arik Air flight from Enugu to Lagos with
a hoax call, that a female passenger who was travelling on the flight was
infected with the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
When the female passenger was tested on
arrival at the Lagos airport, she tested negative, prompting the airline to
order for Bassey’s arrest.
He would be charged to court next Monday
for raising a false alarm which disrupted the operations of the airline.
It was learnt that at about 1.05p.m.
on August 29, a “certain man from Enugu” called the airline’s customer
call centre to alert the airline that his girlfriend who was under quarantine
for the EVD had escaped and was on board flight W3 611 from Enugu to Lagos.
“Immediately the flight landed at the
General Aviation Terminal (GAT) in Ikeja, Lagos, Arik Air’s ground staff who
had been placed on alert approached the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria
(FAAN) medical personnel, but the FAAN officials at GAT said they didn’t have
the requisite equipment to screen passengers for the Ebola virus symptoms.
“The aircraft was therefore taxied to the
international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport. There, the Port Heath
officials supervised the disembarking of the passengers and therefore directed
the female passenger to be transferred to the clinic for checks. “The lady was
later discovered to be free of Ebola symptoms after thorough examination. She
then told Arik Air personnel that her boyfriend who made the malicious call
from Enugu did that to smear her name because they had a misunderstanding.
“She further disclosed that she reported
the boyfriend to the Police in Enugu on August 28.”
It has confirmed that Bassey was arrested in Enugu and may be charged to court on Monday because the incident distrupted Arik’s operations on day.
It has confirmed that Bassey was arrested in Enugu and may be charged to court on Monday because the incident distrupted Arik’s operations on day.
It was alleged that the Port Health officials’ response at MMIA was slow and it took them more than one hour to come out to screen the passenger.
A senior official of the airline linked the
incident to hoax bomb calls made by terror organisations to disrupt flights.
“We are on that case. A man reported that a
female passenger had Ebola because he didn’t want to her to travel. We have
taken it to the police. This is not good for us because it frightens the
passengers. It is the same thing they do with bomb threats which force airlines
to evacuate passengers. We lose passengers because it makes people to become
afraid to travel,” the official said.
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Send him to 10 months in prison with hard labour of washing toilets and drainages 3 times a day
ReplyDeleteSome facts need to be established before the blame could be passed on the young man; if the lady had any contact with either primary or secondary contact with the index case of EVD in the country I thing it's a patriotic gesture, if the guy has privileged information that the lady had a risky lifestyle which could predisposed her to EVD I thing he is been patriotic too. Well I wish someone had made such call to Nigeria before Sawyer came in maybe we wouldn't be in this position now or had someone called Gov. Amaechi the PH issue won't occur oooooo.
ReplyDeleteThey need to give that young man 50 strokes of cane on his bare buttocks for raising false Ebola alarm
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