Enotfare:

Those of you who claim to know your rights in Nigeria. I pray you really experience what the common man goes through so you will understand. I agree you have to be bold at times but always at an expensive cost!!!
Have you ever suggested how these corrupt officers should be punished? Dont you know that if there is no punishment for wrong doing, then wrong doing and evil will be the order of the day. This is a nation were IMPUNITY strives!!!
Pls people do suggest how we going to fix these ills instead of going for each others throat!

iice:

Na new thing?   Isn't corruption in every corner of the society? Why should Airport be any different?   I agree jare. . .just bone them.  If na insist. . .pass them N100. . .na the only money you hold  

justwise:

Some of you who bribed the immigration officers for committing no offence need to get your heads checked, in fact. shame on every one of u who gave those thieves money.

God!!!! what is wrong with us Nigeria? WHY WHY WHY!!!!!? Yes i have witness it in 2000 and i was holding VIRGIN passport, and i REFUSED to give them a penny, they delayed me and my sister inlaw, my sister in law was taken to the toilet to be search and $50 was found on her and they demanded but i insisted that NOTHING gets into they thieving hands.

The public address system were announcing our names as the gate was about to be closed, even at that i stood my ground and they GAVE UP!

Some of us shake like my nanny's teeth rather than stand for what you believe in  

odiaero:

Shame on u if u refuss to pay the money and got delay resulting to miss of flight, then u come back the next day and pay it after using $100 to rechedule your flight again

justwise:

See a doctor quick, i will not miss my flight, there is no reason why i should made to miss my flight and IF i missed my flight cos of any thieving immigration officer THEN that individual will pay with his or her job.

It may cost me more money to re-book but i will invest my last kobo to make sure that the officer will not be seen at the airport thieving again. I NEVER paid any of them, they have asked in many occasions and i refused and NOTHING absolutely NOTHING happened.

odiaero:

See a nurse faster, u think it is as easy as u think, uh?

mohumyta:

@iice
The problem is they will insist on collecting USD don't even mention Naira to them.So crazy

Tell them na only cents you hold if they want foreign currency . 

Ileke-IdI:

We're talking about 100 USD here. You think anyone would care about dashing away $0.75?

That $100 can buy me a buka stand.

For those principled. . .yes. 
But then again no be nigerians?

justwise:

Yes its easy to give an immigration officer your $200-300 in less than a minute, the money you worked your backside off to save. shame no dey catch u?

YES its easy to tell them NO!! i have done it times and board my flight, some of u here can only blow hot air but when its time to stand your ground u start shitting urself. Keep giving them your money, boneless creature.

justwise:

Some of you who bribed the immigration officers for committing no offence need to get your heads checked, in fact. shame on every one of u who gave those thieves money.

God!!!! what is wrong with us Nigeria? WHY WHY WHY!!!!!? Yes i have witness it in 2000 and i was holding VIRGIN passport, and i REFUSED to give them a penny, they delayed me and my sister inlaw, my sister in law was taken to the toilet to be search and $50 was found on her and they demanded but i insisted that NOTHING gets into they thieving hands.

The public address system were announcing our names as the gate was about to be closed, even at that i stood my ground and they GAVE UP!

Some of us shake like my nanny's teeth rather than stand for what you believe in  

faithin9ja:

Oh naive nairalanders!!!

Anybody in uniform in the MMA has paid good money to be posted there, anyone in uniform at MMA makes remittances regularly to his/her bosses at head office in Lagos or Abuja. then you expect them to rely on their salary? This is the Nigerian culture. If you have a job that puts in touch with the public - you make money (this was told me in 1987 when I just finished youth service by a civil servant - almost 25 years ago!!)

This has nothing to do with GEJ, Buhari, OBJ, Ribadu, etc or with your tribe or religion, it has become our way of life and all of us encourage it. We encourage by not only paying the bribes but by expecting our friends and relatives to live beyond their means. Nearly every uniformed officer in MMA is paying some relatives school fees apart from his own children, ie living beyond his means.

so if you think that one person making a protest, not paying and missing his/her flight is going to change anything,

chuckdee4:

That's the spirit, when you have not commited an offence, virgin passport or not they have no right to delay you unless they have solid evidence to detain you.

Don't let any immigration officer bully you into submission, if they ask you for anything, simply tell them you don't have, zip up and be on your way.

::Andrew:::

hmmm that is too much, ma first travel i ran into them, one said your money is 200usd, i said
for what? he said i have told you, when i got where ma passport was to be stamped, to ma suprise ma passport
was sent inside an office headed by a lady officer and i was called in, when i got in the lady said what are going to do in ireland?

i told her i was employed by research in motion, makers of blackberry, am a phone programmer, here is ma employment later
and work visa. she said no way some times they do that and end up being stranded, the irish government will deport me and the
immigration will pay the flight tickect, after alot of pleading the plane was almost being borded, as per first time na i was shaking,
wished the soldiers that drove me to the airport went in with me, the lady told me to show her 10 000 usd she will let me go, just to assure here
i can take care of ma self in case am stranded, i brought ot ma phone and dialed a call, i delibertly mentioned ma dad name, when she heard general
i noticed the look on her face, i swear i cant remember when ma passport was given back to me. last stage searching stand i was told to bring 100usd

i told him straight that i gat no damn dollars except the 200naira i had in ma wallet, hahahaha 2000usd in ma socks i was last on the plane
something really has to be done about them

Hahahaha! Your experience with the boys made me laugh.

I was asked in a stage whisper "anything for the boys?" back in December '09, when I was returning to the UK. I declined, and was allowed to go. I would have missed my flight, but no way was I going to grease any palms, that were already dripping with melted grease from previous "victims".

Siena:

Hahahaha! Your experience with the boys made me laugh.

I was asked in a stage whisper "anything for the boys?" back in December '09, when I was returning to the UK. I declined, and was allowed to go. I would have missed my flight, but no way was I going to grease any palms, that were already dripping with melted grease from previous "victims".

justwise:

I refused to give them even the naira i had on me that day, i had about 10 Nigerian home movies and they accused me on taking more than enough for personal use then i dropped 6 with them and that was all they got from me. Shameless pple.

wontootree:

Thank God finally somebody raised this issue, we have a lot of certified criminal working in our MM airport in the name of immigration, doing all they can to steal from mostly first time travellers. I was a victim too. Next i will come to Nigeria i will definitely use secret cameras on my body to capture this for everybody to see  i swear,  bunch of idiots,
They don't care if u miss your freight,