{"id":173740,"date":"2025-08-12T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerian-government-explains-treatment-for-emmanson-kwam-1"},"modified":"2025-08-12T13:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:53:01","slug":"nigerian-government-explains-treatment-for-emmanson-kwam-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-explains-treatment-for-emmanson-kwam-1","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Government Explains Treatment for Emmanson Kwam 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Federal Government has explained the reason why Comfort Emmanson, a female passenger who allegedly assaulted Ibom Air crew members, was remanded while Fuji music legend Wasiu Ayinde, a.k.a Kwam 1, who reportedly disrupted a ValueJet flight in Abuja last week, faced no such court action.<\/p>\n<p>The Ibom Air incident, which occurred on the Uyo\u2013Lagos route on Sunday, has triggered public outrage and accusations of selective justice.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking on Channels Television\u2019s The Morning Brief on Tuesday, Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Mike Achimugu, said the two incidents were different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no comparison here; it\u2019s not a case of oranges and oranges. In the Kwam1 incident, the airline did not activate its rights to take the passenger to court, so the NCAA did what it was supposed to do by petitioning the authorities to petition the passenger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Ibom Air incident, maybe because their staff had been assaulted, the airline immediately activated its right to take up the matter, and it went to court,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the NCAA was not directly involved in Emmanson\u2019s case, whereas in Kwam 1\u2019s situation, the Authority issued an advisory to the Airline Operators of Nigeria, AON, to ban the musician from flights.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that contrary to earlier reports, Kwam 1 was not placed on a six-month ban but on an indefinite ban pending the outcome of investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Achimugu, while explaining why Emmanson was placed on a no-fly life ban, said airline operators have the legal authority to take such action.<\/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 Federal Government has explained the reason why Comfort Emmanson, a female passenger who allegedly assaulted Ibom Air crew members, was remanded while Fuji music legend Wasiu Ayinde, a.k.a Kwam 1, who reportedly disrupted a ValueJet flight in Abuja last week, faced no such court action. The Ibom Air incident, which occurred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":173739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[18336,701,18354,254],"class_list":["post-173740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-comfort-emmanson","tag-fg","tag-kwam-1","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>Nigerian Government Explains Treatment for Emmanson Kwam 1 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Government has explained the reason why Comfort Emmanson, a female passenger who allegedly assaulted Ibom Ai ...\" \/>\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\/nigerian-government-explains-treatment-for-emmanson-kwam-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian Government Explains Treatment for Emmanson Kwam 1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Government has explained the reason why Comfort Emmanson, a female passenger who allegedly assaulted Ibom Ai ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-explains-treatment-for-emmanson-kwam-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-12T11:52:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-12T12:53:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754990728.771444.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"860\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"602\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/nigerian-government-explains-treatment-for-emmanson-kwam-1#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-explains-treatment-for-emmanson-kwam-1\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian Government Explains Treatment for Emmanson Kwam 1\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-12T11:52:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-12T12:53:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-explains-treatment-for-emmanson-kwam-1\"},\"wordCount\":284,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-explains-treatment-for-emmanson-kwam-1#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754990728.771444.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Comfort Emmanson\",\"FG\",\"kwam 1\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-explains-treatment-for-emmanson-kwam-1#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-explains-treatment-for-emmanson-kwam-1\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-explains-treatment-for-emmanson-kwam-1\",\"name\":\"Nigerian Government Explains Treatment for Emmanson Kwam 1 - 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