{"id":173601,"date":"2025-08-11T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ncaa-explains-kwam1s-court-charges-status"},"modified":"2025-08-11T23:41:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:41:29","slug":"ncaa-explains-kwam1s-court-charges-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ncaa-explains-kwam1s-court-charges-status","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Explains Kwam1&#8217;s Court Charges Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has clarified that Nigerian Fuji musician Wasiu Ayinde, known as K1 de Ultimate (Kwam 1), was not charged to court by ValueJet, unlike Ibom Air\u2019s action against its passenger, Comfort Emmanson, over alleged unruly behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson of the NCAA, Michael Achimugu, disclosed this in an interview with Monday.<\/p>\n<p>His clarification comes as Emmanson, on Monday, was charged in court and remanded in prison, a development that has attracted mixed reactions from Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023, described Emmanson\u2019s treatment as \u201cdouble standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Achimugu noted that the NCAA did not sue Kwam 1, nor did it sue Emmanson.<\/p>\n<p>According to NCAA, the airline exercised its right to sue the alleged unruly passenger in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing to put together here. The Ibom Air passenger was arrested and charged to court by the airline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe airline has exercised its right to sue the unruly passenger in court. So long as that case is in court, the NCAA has no role to play in it. Okay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut in the Kwam 1 case, since the airline did not sue or take the passenger to court, the NCAA, which also does not have prosecutorial powers, decided to do the right thing by criminally referring the case to the Attorney General and Inspector General of Police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if ValueJet had arrested and taken Kwamwan to court that day, the NCAA would not have been involved to the extent that it became involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause they didn\u2019t do that, the NCAA did what it had to do. In this case, the airline, since the incident happened, immediately arrested the lady and sued her in court. So that\u2019s not the NCAA\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not sue Kwam 1; we did not sue this lady,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA petitioned Kwam 1 to the Attorney General of the Federation and the Inspector General of Police for prosecution over an alleged misconduct incident at a Nigerian airport.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has clarified that Nigerian Fuji musician Wasiu Ayinde, known as K1 de Ultimate (Kwam 1), was not charged to court by ValueJet, unlike Ibom Air\u2019s action against its passenger, Comfort Emmanson, over alleged unruly behaviour. The spokesperson of the NCAA, Michael Achimugu, disclosed this in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":173600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[18349,18333,18287,1067,254],"class_list":["post-173601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-emmason","tag-ibom-air","tag-kwam1","tag-ncaa","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NCAA Explains Kwam1&#039;s Court Charges Status - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has clarified that Nigerian Fuji musician Wasiu Ayinde, known as K1 de Ulti ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ncaa-explains-kwam1s-court-charges-status\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NCAA Explains Kwam1&#039;s Court Charges Status\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has clarified that Nigerian Fuji musician Wasiu Ayinde, known as K1 de Ulti ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ncaa-explains-kwam1s-court-charges-status\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-11T21:38:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-11T22:41:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754939649.898591.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"674\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ncaa-explains-kwam1s-court-charges-status#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ncaa-explains-kwam1s-court-charges-status\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NCAA Explains Kwam1&#8217;s Court Charges Status\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-11T21:38:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-11T22:41:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ncaa-explains-kwam1s-court-charges-status\"},\"wordCount\":350,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ncaa-explains-kwam1s-court-charges-status#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754939649.898591.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Emmason\",\"Ibom Air\",\"KWAM1\",\"NCAA\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ncaa-explains-kwam1s-court-charges-status#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ncaa-explains-kwam1s-court-charges-status\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ncaa-explains-kwam1s-court-charges-status\",\"name\":\"NCAA Explains Kwam1's Court Charges Status - 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