An employee of Skyway Aviation Handling Company PLC (SAHCO) has been dismissed over the harassment and extortion of a traveller at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
The unnamed employee had in December 2024 worked with some other airport officials to extort the sum of N100,000 from Oyewale Oyesiji, South Africa-bound traveller.
Oyejisi, an automobile engineer and first-time traveller had claimed that the officials forced him to part with N100,000 at the MMIA.
The employee was further dismissed by SAHCO after an investigative panel found him guilty of the allegations.
Speaking on the incident the ground handling company said it has plans to meet with the affected passenger.
It also stated that no form of misconduct would be tolerated by the handling company.
A management official who spoke under anonymity said, “The management, in accordance with the Nigeria labour laws implemented the report of the investigative panel by dismissing the culprit immediately.
“As an internationally certified handling company with major foreign and indigenous carriers as our clients, we abhor such acts of indiscipline and that explains why the management did not hesitate to take that decision to dismiss the staff,” he said.
In addition, Vanessa Uansohia, SAHCO’s head of corporate communications while declining comment on the outcome of the investigation said the company frowned at any act of corruption among its staff.
“We have a zero-tolerance policy for any form of corruption or misconduct and this case is being thoroughly investigated,” she said.
(Politics Nigeria)
