Woman boasts as NIS launches investigations on torn passport incident at MMIA 

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Monday launched a formal investigation on torn passport incident following the circulation of a video on social media, showing a female traveler destroying a Nigerian Standard Passport at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.

This was contained in statement by the Service Public Relations Officer (SPRO) DCI Kenneth Udo, who stated that the individual, Mrs. Favour Igiebor, holding passport number A11990869 has been identified and invited for further investigation.

 “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.

“The Nigeria Immigration Service remains steadfast in its commitment to upholding the provisions of the Immigration Act in the interest of national security, and to preserving the dignity and integrity of the nation’s legal instruments,” Udo said.

In her reaction, Favour Igiebor, the woman seen in the viral video said no one can arrest her for tearing her husband’s international passport. She described what led her into torning into pieces her husband’s international passport after they came back to the country.

Mrs Igiebor claimed that her intention was to prevent her husband from traveling back to Europe, hence the need to destroy his passport.

 She said, “… in doing this, no one can arrest me”.

 She came hard on those who criticised her actions, saying none of them seem to have known what she was going through in her marriage.

“These issues have been going on for a very long time. I was just dancing to the tune till I arrived my motherland Nigeria.” 

She stated that all the bloggers attacking her over the video shouldn’t look at what she did but what might have instigated it.

“I am not a mad woman who would just come and act like that. I have my reasons. I have gone through so many things. So many of you just commenting on the video, I am seeing so many comments, friends calling me, those that have never called me for ages are calling me and those that have heard from me 20 years ago are calling me. I am not like that.

“So many of you commenting, what if I had done this thing in Europe where we were coming from? Because I don’t want him to go through a lot of stress, that’s why I did it in Nigeria.

“So I don’t care about what people are writing because if you don’t know what is happening, don’t just comment on what you don’t know. You have to know how to come into an issue. So many people at the airport that day saw me. Those who have thinking faculty were calm to ask me, wanting to know what happened.”