The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has launched an investigation into a viral video depicting a female passenger who tore her husband’s passport upon arriving at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Saturday.
The NIS announced the investigation in a statement released on Monday and shared on its official X account by spokesperson Kenneth Udo.
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The statement read: “The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has launched a formal investigation following the circulation of a video on social media, showing a female traveller destroying a Nigerian Standard Passport at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos,”.
The NIS’s response came roughly 48 hours after a video circulating on social media showed the woman separating her three children from her husband following the destruction of his passport.
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In the video, the husband looked stunned and speechless as fragments of the torn passport scattered on the floor, while bystanders, including officials from the Nigerian Customs Service, watched the scene unfold.
“Yes, I tore the passport, this is Nigeria,” the woman was heard saying as she walked away with her children, leaving the husband behind.
On Monday, the NIS announced that the woman involved has been identified and invited for further investigation.
The statement said: “If the allegations are substantiated, her actions would have constituted a breach of Section 10(b) of the Immigration Act 2015 (as amended), with corresponding penalties outlined under Section 10(h) of the same Act,”.
According to the act, it stipulates that anyone who “unlawfully alters, tampers with or mutilates any passport or any pages thereof, is liable to imprisonment for a term of 10 years or a fine of N2 million or both.”
Similarly, anyone who “attempts, aids, abets, counsels, procures, connives or conspires with any other person to do any of the acts mentioned in this subsection. commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of ten years or a fine of Two Million Naira or both,” section 10(h) of the act partly read.
On Monday, the NIS reaffirmed its commitment to upholding the Immigration Act, emphasizing its dedication to national security and maintaining the dignity and integrity of the nation’s legal instruments.
