British Airways Regrets Maltreatment Of Nigerians

KOBOjunkie thanks for responding to everything i wrote. So therefore if they rob me in my University i should sue the police department for not doing their job? Thank YOu. You said i should read and read the thread well. so where didnt i read. some people said he committed a crime? which crime? hope you know i read the initial  post, when the guy said he just told the police please don't kill him. what is there in what he said? You too read well sir. lastly i don't know what my na wa nigerians should stop harrassing themselves has do with me reading page one. Please don't refer to my post just carry on.

kobo, moving right along.

Do you realize that Mr Omotade was removed from the plane BEFORE the other passengers were removed and so their is really no way that his own account of the story can speak for reason why the others were removed since he was not even there when it happened??? and since BA has not told us and no one of those passengers came come forward to state Exactly why, what we have is speculation at this point. This is AGAIN, not about believing BA but hearing from other parties involved order than Omotade being the only person we get to listen to in all this case.


High tendency for racism?? You mean the same high tendency that exists today in the black community against whites??? The pilot in this case did none so I do not understand the relevance of your question at all or what you even mean.



What passengers where wrong, according to BA??? What are you talking about We have only heard Omotade's side of the story and many jumped to conclusion based on just ONE EYE WITNESS account. Do you think that is fair?? To Anyone?? Passengers were supposedly fuming and BA offloaded them, this happens across the world like at least 5 times each day. Is BA really the first to do this?? Or is it just that some of those offloaded are Nigerians and so we should all as a nation be ticked off then???


There is no such thing as a general belief here. There is the belief of the one side and the belief of the other side. I am sorry but I choose to go with actually thinking for a change and I hate it make it known to you that from Omotade's own statements, you can almost see where this is going to end. Someone stated earlier that he/she just took BA and had no problems. Are you going to tell him he is wrong?? I mean is this a SUBDUE THEM until they see things my way approach that has killed us for years that we want to continue with?? Again,  I ask what the frell has this to do with Nigeria???

Some Nigerians died and were bundled into hell to spend their eternity. Two weeks later saint Peter wanted to know how this group of Nigerians were suffering in hell, so he picked up the phone and dialed hell to find out how thing are. On his first call the phone rang all through and nobody picked it. This was very unusual as the devil always stays in his hell office.       

Saint Peter continued to try until the Devil picked the phone, sounding breathless. Saint Peter: "I have been calling this line and you were not picking the phone"?
Devil: "is that you saint Peter? Please call back, I have some emmergency here"! And he quickly hung up.

Saint peter called again ten minutes later and the devil picked the phone and shouted : "please call back, something is wrong here".
And by the time Saint Peter called again after fifteen minutes, hear the devil: "hello, is that you Saint Peter? I am in trouble here, the Nigerian that were brought here are causing havoc in this hell, they are breaking all the rules I have here, see, they have turned off all the burning fire and installed air conditioners, they have installed CDs in hell to be playing loud music here. They even bribed some of my junior devils to allow them bring in girls, many cartons of beer and indian hemp, and they have been staging some parties here"! (The devil drops and quickly dashes out as Juju music starts to blare loudly again in the background.)   

            Nigerian are too much.   

I am a Nigerian born citizen and this is my story. I come from a country where, there is no respect for human rights, innocent people get burnt on the streets, the policemen treat the citizens like animals and well the economy is in shambles. I am helpless and do not condone such activities such as crimes against humanity, corruption and bad services by the service sector in Nigeria, which I have no control over. I complain in silence and sometimes to my other mates through discussions.

I  move to a place called London in the United kingdom, where everything seems to be pretty ok, except for the rowdy football fans, some racism, a few hiccups here and there, but the economy seems ok, and so is the economical infrastructure. The job I have seems to be great too. They seem to respect human rights here, and I have come to appreciate such values, and well the great thing is things get done, and well I could complain, if I am not happy with anything, officially or through the media. I love the system.

One day I get treated like shit, and my fellow country mates think I deserve to be treated like shit, because where I come from people treat themselves like shit. It is our culture perhaps?

My fellow country mates think I do not have the right to complain because I come from a place where people do not complain about ill treatments of their fellow mates.

My country mates believe that Nigerians deserve to be treated everywhere they go, the same way they are treated back at home and do not have the rights to complain.

My fellow mates have tried to rationalize inhumane treatments, disrespect and the abuse of human rights the best way they could. It’s sad, but here they have done it so well, that my heart is weeping for them.

The event that sparked this controversy occurred on British soil, where British standards of treatment of detainees apply. So please thread like educated people.

If an average citizen like you believe our government will always be shit, how do you expect there to be a change. As for me I believe Nigeria will keep improving until we get to the promised land. I strongly believe in my Country. I have made it my priority to start talking positively about my country. Most people don't know the effect of negative suggestion, it can ruin a nation.

Nobody is saying Nigeria does not have problems but please lets do the little we can positively to change our nation because no one else will.

They owe Nigerians an napology regardless

@ kaecy

don't you think the current negative publicity they're getting may have contributed to the improved service you noticed?

This is what happens when some people register their concern at substandard treatment-  the majority benefit from it, because it forces corporations to review their services and delivery methods. It doesnt mean folks have to get violent- there are various legal ways to voice your displeasure at something, and vocal opinion is one of them. Boycott is another.

I don't know why so many people want to give others a free hand to trample on them anyhow.

Very negative self image. I think some Nigerians are so traumatized by whatever they experienced in Nigeria or wherever that they don't believe they deserve to be treated with any kind of respect.


If whites/Europeans can boycott a company and actively protest over something like an organization polluting the environment, inhumane treatment of lab animals or some other such stuff, why is it so hard for us to grasp this kind of concept?

I say we've been traumatized.

@tpia
Sorry to burst your bubble, but i flew BA myself end of march, when there was NO furore over this incident. It was perhaps the best i've been treated on any plane.

Wanna know my worst flying experience? Virgin Nigeria from Lagos to PHC, where the cabin crew snapped at me when i had the audacity to ask for water when he had passed me before.


i truly see this whole episode as an indication of how pathetic my fellow Nigerians are. People who ordinarily will NEVER help when they see police whipping their fellow man in Lagos are here waxing lyrical about 'maltreatment' and 'racism'.

LMAO!!! Suddenly ALL Nigerians are traumatized??? LMAO!!! My sister just got back from Nigeria some weeks before this matter,and she enjoyed how BA stood up for her against some Nigerian army dude who felt he could take her seat just cause. Was that because of this issue as well??? Nigerians and the many SPIN DOCTORS we have in that country. Hundreds of thousands of people Fly BA world wide each day . So many thousands happen to be Nigerians who have never heard of this so called issue some have with BA and suddenly ALL Nigerians are traumatized??   LMAO


Some people need to seriously go get their own television shows on Nigerian networks so they can spin some more of those lies. I am taking BA in June back to Nigeria as I have never had any problems flying on BA and they have, like @Kaecy pointed out, some of the most comfortable planes out there, compared to other airlines. I wonder how traumatized I will be when I am sitting comfortably in my seat by the window, with enough leg room for two and flying comfortably as well, minding my own business. Make somebody come tell me how traumatized me and my Nigerian friends will be cause of this Omotade issue afterwards.  ROFLMAO!!!! Abegi!!! @Kaecy, thanks for for honest accessment of your flight and I hope more and more honest people like you show up so we stop drinking down the venom of hate and racism alone in here, from people who I am not even sure of where they live and how they arrived at such. Heck, from the words some use, I envision they have never really flown BA but are here to spill "them say, them say" stories.  FLY BA!!!

You know what ya'all? It baffles me at times because the people that raise the most dust about an issue are the ones that don't even know the nitty gritty

They pick the negative bits and flare up like a fire fuelled with corrupted kerosene

I am not pro-BA but we all make so much noise and when it comes to having people stand up and be counted, they all backdown!

Nigerian's wey never see British Airways Logo before dey halla pass people wey don travel, KAI suffrey suffrey my people!

Well, I am happy that you consider your sanctimonious self the better Nigerian here then. You just earned yourself five brownie points,  go and be happy!! WOOHOO!!!

I am so glad that I have absolutely no problems of any kind. I am blessed wherever I go and I get not just favor, but respect as well. So no need to whine on my behalf. Don't cry for me. Cry for yourself considering the many problems you continually try to impose on those who do not agree with you. If more brownie points is what you need, ask.

Fly BA, and enjoy your trip !!!

let him bust it jo,arrant nonsense

and get kicked out in the air when u mess up