AN alleged fracas between the aides of the wife of the Minister of Transport, Mrs Judith Amaechi and officials of Air Peace and those of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) at the Port Harcourt International Airport is now generating ripples in aviation circles.
It had been alleged that Mrs Amaechi supervised the assault and manhandling of some airport officials last Saturday, on May 26, because she was refused boarding an Air Peace flight from Port Harcourt to Abuja.
According to online reports, Mrs Amaechi’s entourage had formed a human barricade to prevent the fully-boarded aircraft of Air Peace from taking off while her armed security aides allegedly beat up two of the airline’s ground staff for not allowing their principal board the flight.
Reacting on Friday, the spokesperson for FAAN, Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, in a two-paragraph statement, debunked the story, saying Mrs Amaechi had nothing to do with the fracas.
The statement reads: “Our attention has been drawn to a trending story to the effect that the wife of the Honourable Minister of Transportation, Mrs Judith Amaechi, supervised the assault and manhandling of some airport officials on the 26th May 2018, because she was refused boarding an Air Peace flight from Port Harcourt Airport.
“The Authority will like to state emphatically that the incident had nothing to do with the Honourable Minister’s wife, it was between some security personnel at the airport and airline officials.”
