Emmanson Questions Treatment of King Wasiu and Oshiomhole, Aisha Yesufu Criticizes Ibom Air Over Passenger Incident

Aisha Yesufu, a human rights activist, has denounced the way airline staff handled Comfort Emmanson, an aggressive passenger on Ibom Air.
After attacking airline employees on a journey from Uyo to Lagos, Emmanson was reportedly bundled and hauled out of the Ibom Airplane in a video that went viral on social media.

For her action, which many have denounced, she was later detained and charged.
Yesufu has, however, highlighted a sharp contrast between Emmanson’s treatment and that of other well-known individuals, including as former Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole and Fuji artist Wasiu Ayinde Marshal (KWAM 1), who were involved in different airline-related situations but were not imprisoned nor jailed.

“The manner in which they requested that King Wasiu descend… Reports state that King Wasiu Ayinde literally poured everything he owned into the aircraft and even stopped it. However, she noted that he had not been placed under remand.

“Why didn’t you pull King Wasiu Ayinde in that manner out of the plane? Why didn’t they pull Senator Adams Oshiomhole to the floor after he was bundled up? Yesufu asked.

Additionally, Yesufu denounced the way security personnel violently restrained Comfort Emmanson.

According to her, Emmanson was dragged in a way that caused her dress to tear, revealing her breasts to onlookers.

Sexual harassment is what that is. Yesufu bemoaned the fact that Emmanson would now “forever live with the fact that her body part… is now all out on display and people will continue to make caricatures with it.” “That is you putting somebody’s nudity in the public while there was literally no need for that to be in the public place,” she said.

Yesufu questioned the lack of dignity in the situation’s management in a post via her 𝕏 account, implying that a more courteous method may have been used.

Consider how they pulled her out. Do the security guards receive any training at all? Yesufu claimed that someone from the back pulled her dress, causing it to tear and reveal her breasts as they dragged her like they were dragging chicken.

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The Context Of Emmanson’s Divisive Narrative
According to reports, Emmanson allegedly disregarded a routine aviation safety regulation on August 10 when the cabin crew told her to turn off her phone.

When a fellow traveler switched off the gadget for her, Emmanson became enraged and the altercation ensued.

The airline regarded Emmanson’s actions as potentially dangerous because they included hitting a crew member and attempting to use a fire extinguisher as a weapon.

She was thus placed on a lifelong no-fly list by the Airline Operators of Nigeria and banned indefinitely by Ibom Air.

Airport security detained her, turned her over to the police, filed charges against her, and placed her under remand at Kirikiri Correctional Center.

We Cannot Have Two Legal Systems: Aisha Yesufu Probes Emmanson’s Care
Yesufu criticized the case in a video posted on her official 𝕏 account on Monday, arguing that Emmanson’s treatment exposed the systemic inequalities in Nigerian legal systemic implementation.

“We cannot have a country with two distinct legal systems where the type of judicial system that is applied to you or that fits with you depends on your socioeconomic status. It’s not acceptable,” Yesufu declared.

The activist went on to say that although she was “not against the charges and accusations” against Emmanson, she thinks that everyone should be treated fairly when it comes to justice.

She emphasized that “the rule of law is the rule of law because it applies to everyone, not just some people.”

Yesufu went on to criticize the selective justice that she sees in the way Emmanson and other powerful people are treated differently.

Why did they feel at ease dragging Comfort on the floor and flaunting her body everywhere in the room? There are several issues there,” Yesufu said, adding that the absence of comparable measures against well-known individuals like Oshiomhole and KWAM 1 is indicative of a more widespread problem with selective justice.

“I’ll say it again: selective justice is really injustice,” she said in closing.