Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has criticised the decision of the airline to place a lifetime ban on a passenger over alleged misconduct.
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections, has criticised the decision of the airline union to place a lifetime ban on a passenger over alleged misconduct.on Tuesday, Obi said the Nigerian justice system is “like a spider’s web: it catches the weak, while the powerful break through with ease”.showed an enraged Comfort Emmanson, a passenger, attacking a flight attendant on an Ibom Air plane and confronting airport security officials.
“This morning, I woke up to learn that the passenger, the young Ms Comfort Emmanson in her twenties, has been banned from flying for life — once again showing how our system works, proving the truth of Anacharsis’s words that ‘the law is like a spider’s web: it catches the weak, while the powerful break through with ease’,” Obi wrote.
“Those in positions of authority perpetrate far greater offences that harm the nation deeply, yet move freely in comfort, shielded from consequences.“In Ms Emmanson’s case, the authorities acted with lightning speed, but the same urgency is absent when dealing with the influential and politically connected.
“If this young woman, who indeed acted wrongly, now seeks to apologise, who will hear her cry in a country where the pain of the poor is invisible and the dignity of the less privileged is often disregarded? Justice must be consistent, or it becomes oppression in disguise.”Restating the need for compassion and rehabilitation, Obi said “power must never determine who is punished”.
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