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US Soldier Shares His Encounter with Nigeria Customs and NDLEA Officers at Murtala Muhammed International Airport

A US soldier recently shared a video of his experience with Nigeria Customs and NDLEA officers at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. The officers were unaware of his military status at first.

The encounter began when a customs officer asked to inspect the soldier’s bags. After a brief exchange, the soldier agreed.

However, upon opening one of the boxes and spotting military items inside, the officer quickly closed it and said, "I didn’t know you were a soldier.

You know, some of your people usually wear their uniforms." The soldier calmly responded, "I don’t usually like to wear my uniform."

The situation took another turn when another staff member at the airport in civilian clothing suddenly stood up as the soldier approached and asked for his passport. Watch the viral video to see what happened next.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtgH0odWd1E

The guy should calm down, he can't do this to an immigration or DEA officers in the USA.

It's really sad

OK ,

its a nom,even at the U.S Airports




although Nigeria custom and ndla over do things in Nigeria .





Princess Faith Chukwu

Hmm

Druggie built Lagos and handed over the affairs of the state to his urchins that keep disgracing the country, the first impression of foreigners about the country starts when they arrive at Lagos Airport but agberos have overran the entire terminal, spits.

Everything went well. Kudos to our officials. They did their job but why the immigration guy come dey fear like that.

This happens when you have an illegitimate government in power.

hmm

I no get anything to say because I never travel before

And so what if he is a soldier? That he is carrying military items should make them more curious.
Unless the customs guy is trying to do something illegal.

The military guy actually started with aggression. The Custome Officer was fair enough, when was your last time here. Just answer the damn question. Immediately you guys enter this country. You just wanna attack everyone. He's not gonna seize your passport let him check whatever he wants. You don't know maybe he has an intel info he's working with. If you can wait 7hours in a plane. An extra 5minutes in an airport shouldn't be a problem.

Abeg make una explain wetin happen there to me. I no get enough data to watch

Okay

Disenfranchised:
This happens when you have an illegitimate government in power.

Boring.

A big fool!

they called him what he really is. A content creator. Trying to start something so he can go viral. Can he speak to ICE and DEA like that in the US. Oloriburuku somebody

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Disenfranchised:
This happens when you have an illegitimate government in power.

Illegitimate because Pandora Bitter Obi led his tribal headless mob to cluelessly vote 100% for ebilokan T-Pain in the five Igbos states?

jameshankss:
Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said he is sure the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, would lose the 2023 presidential election. Soludo said he would not submit to the bullying of Obi’s supporters, who recently descended on him for addressing issues in the state.

The governor made the comments in a lengthy write-up personally authored, with the title, “History Beckons, and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1).”

Soludo said Obi was inadvertently making the pathway to victory much easier for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and at the same time, toying with the destiny of millions of Ndigbo.

But the chief spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Yunusa Tanko, accused Soludo of being sponsored by some unknown persons to weaken the base of the party in the South-east.

The former CBN governor had been under intense attack for close to a week for dismissing Obi’s investment in the state as amounting to nothing, during a television interview.

Soludo said in the write-up, “My attention has been drawn to some of the tirades on social media following my frank response during an interview on Channels TV regarding the ‘investments’ Mr. Peter Obi claimed to have made with Anambra State revenues.

“Sadly, several of the comments left the issue of the interview to probe or suggest motives, inferred from my response on ‘investment’ that I am opposed to Peter Obi’s ambition and, therefore, committed a ‘crime’ for which the punishment is internecine abuse and harassment, even to my family.

“Everyone knows that I don’t follow the winds or one to succumb to bullies, or shy away from a good fight especially, when weighty matters of principles and future of the people are involved.”

Soludo said he had urged Obi to return to his former party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to actualise his presidential bid. He added that he had always told the LP candidate to his face that he was not capable of winning the 2023 presidential election, especially, under LP, which had neither a councillor nor a local government chairman.

Soludo said Obi was not just his friend, but also his brother, but despite that, they have their political differences.

He stated, “For full disclosure, let me state that Peter Obi and I are not just friends, we call ourselves ‘brothers’. But we have political differences: he left APGA for PDP after his tenure as governor, while I have remained in APGA since 2013.

“During the last two governorship elections in Anambra in 2017 and 2021, he led the PDP campaigns but APGA won landslide in both elections. By the way, in 2016, he visited and proposed that I defect to PDP and contest the 2017 election against the incumbent Willie Obiano, but I declined.

“After my victory in November 2021, he called to congratulate me, as I did to him in 2010. That is the Anambra way: we fight fiercely during campaigns but share drinks at the next social events. After all, it was the Great Zik of Africa, who taught us that in politics, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies but only permanent interests.”

Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”

Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.

He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/11/15/soludo-i-wont-succumb-to-bullies-obi-knows-he-cant-win/

I do not blame him for recording them - most of those airport officials are always looking to prey on innocent travellers

NDLEA is not supposed to check anyone's passport - they are not immigration

Disenfranchised:
This happens when you have an illegitimate government in power.

Your days of sorrow will indeed be long.

The guy was deliberately looking for their shortcomings.

The NDLEA guy almost fell for it by trying to counter anger with anger.

Both the traveller and the officers should calm down. They can interact professionally and diplomatically, not by throwing tantrums.

So many nigerian are now united citizen because of joining the military..they dont wear uniform in nigeria but drive big cars when they come for holiday .some have licence gun for self defence too like pistol

He was only trying to show off. If he’s truly a US trained military officer, he should have known an NDLEA officer has the right to check his bags even if such bags had been previously searched ten times.

In the US, Canada and the likes, they searched more than that. Many a time, they will even break your lock or delay your luggage for weeks just to satisfy their curiosity ! THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THEY DON’T DEMAND FOR BRIBES.

Extortionists! Who gave him the right to hold an America passport like that.

Talk about your state, can anyone come to Nigeria because of your state.

Karlovych:
Druggie built Lagos and handed over the affairs of the state to his urchins that keep disgracing the country, the first impression of foreigners about the country starts when they arrive at Lagos Airport but agberos have overran the entire terminal, spits.

pappilo:
A big fool!

they called him what he really is. A content creator. Trying to start something so he can go viral. Can he speak to ICE and DEA like that in the US. Oloriburuku somebody

If we are not all oloriburuku somebodies, why are we so weak that we tremble at the sight of American soldier and oyinbos in general? Na dem tell us to leave everything to God instead of working hard to be collectively prosperous Did oyinbos ask us to cluelessly loot our commonwealth that we hide there

TheBedWench:
The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States in the 20th century. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of black blood)[1][2] is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms).

This concept became codified into the law of some states in the early 20th century. It was associated with the principle of "invisible blackness" that developed after the long history of racial interaction in the South, which had included the hardening of slavery as a racial caste and later segregation. It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status, regardless of proportion of ancestry in different groups.[3]

The one-drop rule is defunct in law in the United States and was never codified into federal law.

Kudos to the customs personnel.

That skit maker that won’t question a police officer at a traffic stop is grandstanding our officers at our point of entry.

All he needs to ask the plainclothes, is their identity and not to attempt escalate a simple matter.

The Nigerian who is in US army opened the yansh of our Airport officials

If you have passed through them before, you would understand that the harassment is too much. A scanner should do the job rather than being searched by them one after the other.
If one is a suspect it's okay, but this guys look for fragile people they can get money from.

After the search, if you are clean, they will still ask you anything for me?

Even with your children around you, they will still exhibit this unethical practices. My asked me like why are they saying anything for us...

Hmm