{"id":28198,"date":"2024-08-13T06:41:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T10:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=28198"},"modified":"2024-08-13T06:41:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T10:41:06","slug":"nigerian-woman-summoned-for-ripping-up-husbands-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/08\/13\/nigerian-woman-summoned-for-ripping-up-husbands-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian woman summoned for ripping up husband\u2019s passport"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Nigeria Immigration Service has summoned a woman for questioning after she was filmed apparently tearing up her husband’s passport at Lagos airport in a video which has been widely shared on social media.<\/b><\/p>\n

The woman, identified as Favour Igiebor, was seen shouting at her husband in the video while pieces of the Nigerian passport lay on the floor.<\/p>\n

She had returned from Europe alongside her husband and children and landed at the Murtala Mohammed airport where the incident happened in front of dozens of other travellers.<\/p>\n

“I tore it,” she was heard admitting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The authorities said in a statement they were looking into the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has launched formal investigation, following the circulation of a video on social media, showing a female traveler [sic] destroying a Nigerian Standard Passport at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe individual involved has been identified as Mrs. Favour Igiebor,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n

It noted that destroying the country\u2019s passport was a criminal offence, which could be punished by up to a year in prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The destroyed Nigerian passport on the floor of Murtala Mohammed airport<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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After the video went viral, eliciting numerous comments, Mrs Igiebor released her own video. She did not go into details but said she was suffering.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at my eyes – I do cry a lot. Many people commenting on social media don\u2019t understand what I am going through.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to ask what happened – don\u2019t just look at the action alone. I have my reasons. I have gone through a lot of family issues. I cannot be suffering. I suffered with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said she had thought of tearing up the passport in Europe but decided that would have caused her husband too many problems.<\/p>\n

In the video at the airport, one traveller was heard saying the couple had been having issues throughout the flight.<\/p>\n

Some people were also seen consoling the husband and telling him to be calm.<\/p>\n

If she were to be charged, she would be the first person to be taken to court for destroying the Nigerian passport.<\/p>\n

But in recent months, the country has been getting tough on protecting its national symbols, including a clampdown on the common practice of throwing around the national currency, the naira, at social events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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