NIS Begins Investigation Into Battered FAAN Staff Incident

The Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Command of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has commenced investigations into the incident involving one of its officers and a staff of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), over clash of right of way near the Palace Gate of the Cargo Terminal of the NAHCO Shed.

The investigation, the spokesperson of the Nigerian Customs Service Airport Command, Thelma Williams said, has become imperative to establish the veracity of the claim by the FAAN staff, that a Customs officer attacked him near the Palace Gate over right of way on the road leading into the Cargo Terminal.

She said preliminary findings by the Customs has revealed that the officer was not trying to gain access into the Palace Gate as alleged by the FAAN staff.

She said the officer had made a turn towards the Hajj Camp axis of the road, when the FAAN staff in company of others blocked his car.

This is just as she said the Customs officer was at no time taken to the Airport Police Station over the matter, but, reported the matter officially.

Williams said it is important to clear the air on the matter because of information being pushed out to the public that the Customs officer battered the FAAN staff and damaged his car.