{"id":174170,"date":"2025-08-14T08:47:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/why-nigerian-govt-pardoned-ibom-air-passenger-falana"},"modified":"2025-08-14T09:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:48:15","slug":"why-nigerian-govt-pardoned-ibom-air-passenger-falana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/why-nigerian-govt-pardoned-ibom-air-passenger-falana","title":{"rendered":"Why Nigerian Govt pardoned Ibom Air passenger \u2013 Falana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Human rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has revealed the reason the Federal Government pardoned the Ibom Air passenger, Comfort Emmanson.<\/p>\n<p>Falana, who made this revelation in a statement on Wednesday, said the government withdrew the case against the female passenger because of its refusal to charge Fuji Star, Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, a.k.a KWAM 1, with appropriate criminal offences.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged that the government has lost the moral right to prosecute any unruly passenger who commits an offence at any of the nation\u2019s airports.<\/p>\n<p>The Senior Advocate also frowned at the way the government is handling the case against KWAM 1, over his recent conduct at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He lamented that the government hastily accepted KWAM 1\u2019s apology and granted him pardon without allowing the police to conclude its investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince citizens have equal rights, obligations, and opportunities before the law, the Federal Government will henceforth be accused of subjecting any unruly passenger to discriminatory treatment on the ground that KWAM 1 was \u2018pardoned\u2019 without any criminal trial whatsoever,\u201d he said.<\/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. Human rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has revealed the reason the Federal Government pardoned the Ibom Air passenger, Comfort Emmanson. Falana, who made this revelation in a statement on Wednesday, said the government withdrew the case against the female passenger because of its refusal to charge Fuji Star, Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, a.k.a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":174169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[102,254,18404],"class_list":["post-174170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-falana","tag-nigeria","tag-qibom-air"],"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>Why Nigerian Govt pardoned Ibom Air passenger \u2013 Falana - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Human rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has revealed the reason the Federal Government pardoned the Ibom Air passenger, ...\" \/>\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\/why-nigerian-govt-pardoned-ibom-air-passenger-falana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Nigerian Govt pardoned Ibom Air passenger \u2013 Falana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Human rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has revealed the reason the Federal Government pardoned the Ibom Air passenger, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/why-nigerian-govt-pardoned-ibom-air-passenger-falana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-14T07:47:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-14T08:48:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755148833.730651.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"899\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"490\" \/>\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\/why-nigerian-govt-pardoned-ibom-air-passenger-falana#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/why-nigerian-govt-pardoned-ibom-air-passenger-falana\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Why Nigerian Govt pardoned Ibom Air passenger \u2013 Falana\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-14T07:47:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-14T08:48:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/why-nigerian-govt-pardoned-ibom-air-passenger-falana\"},\"wordCount\":194,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/why-nigerian-govt-pardoned-ibom-air-passenger-falana#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755148833.730651.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"FALANA\",\"Nigeria\",\"QIbom Air\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/why-nigerian-govt-pardoned-ibom-air-passenger-falana#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/why-nigerian-govt-pardoned-ibom-air-passenger-falana\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/why-nigerian-govt-pardoned-ibom-air-passenger-falana\",\"name\":\"Why Nigerian Govt pardoned Ibom Air passenger \u2013 Falana - 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