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The National Orientation Agency (NOA) says the prosecution of the woman who allegedly tore her husband’s Nigerian passport will serve as a deterrent to others.

On Saturday, videos of Favour Igiebor destroying her husband’s international passport at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos circulated on social media.

However, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said it has launched a formal investigation into the destruction of the Nigerian passport.

In a statement on Monday, Paul Odenyi, deputy director at NOA, quoted Lanre Issa-Onilu, director-general (DG) of the agency, to have condemned Igiebor’s action

Issa-Onilu said mutilating the passport is an assault on the symbol and identity of Nigeria.

The NOA DG said the agency would support the NIS to “investigate and prosecute such breach in line with section 10 (B) of the Immigration Act 2015 as a deterrence to those who may willfully damage an important national symbol”.

He appealed to Nigerians to “continue to show respect for the national symbols as part of our patriotic commitment to national development”.

“The international passport issued by the Nigerian Immigration Service is the property of the federal government, and no person who has the privilege of owning one should abuse or even damage them under whatever guise,” the statement reads.

“What the lady has done is a grievous assault on our collective assets and a dent on the symbol of our identity as a nation.”

Section 10(b) of the Nigerian Immigration Act of 2015 states that “a person who unlawfully alters, tampers with, or mutilates any passport or any pages thereof, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of ten years or a fine of Two Million Naira or both.”

Source: https://www.thecable.ng/noa-prosecution-of-woman-who-tore-passport-will-serve-as-deterrent-to-others/amp/

This has always been my stance since the video went viral. People shouldn't let their emotions control them and it is even worse when madness is displayed in public glare. If wrong behaviours are not corrected, they become a norm. She should be punished.

This woman should be prosecuted accordingly, her intention was to strand her husband in Nigeria then she goes back and start f*cking all the young men she has been dying to sleep with.

If it’s for clout, she and her husband should be taught a lesson because the husband’s permit is not on that passport.

Why didn’t she tear the husband’s Italian document?

Nice move if taken.

That woman's head should be checked properly

It was a public stunt, they are content creators.

Good for her and others out there

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Skit goes wrong
No video or picture evidence of the moment she was tearing the danm pali
And some people never believe it's a mumu skit

Let it serve as a deterrent to others, how dare you tear your country's document.

;this one don buy market

That an insult to Nigeria, she need to be use as an example to others

Nice one

Very good

Na this kind thing dem they see NOA. Where is this agency all these while? Nonsense

Firstly, confirm if it's a real passport. Then we can talk about if mutilation is a crime

She only wanted to trend because it was a pure content. She should be persecuted immediately for choosing to respect oyibo passport and toy with ours here

This is more like it. Others can learn from this,, that is, if they ever learn. Nigerians love breaking the law, thinking it's their God given right. When caught, they start using emotional blackmail and other things to always try to play the victim, just like this woman did.

McDoe:
Na this kind thing Dem they see NOA. Where is this agency all these while? Nonsense

Useless agency weh no get stated Objectives

If the husband presses no charge. You guys don't have any obligation or right by law to procecute or jail her.

They are content creator who just want to trend

She should be imprisoned without the option of fine and write to the country that offered her visa to cancel her visa validity

Johnchrix:
It was a public stunt, they are content creators.

If you say so... Does that mean it was a fake passport that she tore?!!

If it was a real passport, she will go and repeat more stunts and contents in jail.

Too much noise about this incidence.

The lady MUST face the law.

Tearing the passport whether fake or real was painful BUT what was more painful was that she choose to do this inside the international airport in the face of authorities , haba naa

This is a SLAP on our face collectively and an INTERNATIONAL DISGRACE

All these people shouting skit skit upandan, please how's that video a skit.

Make it make sense please.

Kaycee9242:
That woman's head should be checked properly

what if she begin biting people inside plane? God abeg oh.

The deranged woman just showed the world what she has been subjecting the man to in private.

What anger can not do, doesn't exist.
We should always learn to control our emotions. It's very important.