Wife of the Minister of
Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Dame Judith is currently involved in a
controversy, following the drama she allegedly created at the Port Harcourt
Airport, last Saturday.
The Minister’s wife and her
entourage were accused of trying to stop an Abuja bound Air Peace Airline
flight from taking-off at the airport.
It was reported that Mrs Amaechi
and her entourage arrived late for boarding the Abuja bound flight but when the
pilots insisted on going ahead without them, they attempted to stop the
aircraft from taking off.
Premium Times reported that Mrs
Amaechi’s entourage formed a human barricade to prevent the alleged fully
boarded aircraft from taking off.
The report claimed that Mrs
Amaechi’s armed security aides beat up two of the airline’s ground staff for
not allowing their principal board the flight.
However, some eyewitnesses
dismissed the allegations that the Minister’s wife alongside her entourage
prevented the said aircraft from taking-off.
One of the eyewitnesses, who was
on the aircraft at the time the incident occurred, described the alleged report
of Mrs Amaechi’s maltreatment of the airline’s official as false.
The eyewitness, who simply
identified himself as Sam said the staff of the airline deliberately shut the
door, “abruptly apparently to embarrass the wife of the Minister of
Transportation, Dame Judith Amaechi who arrived the airport early for the
flight.”
According to Sam, “ I was already
inside the place when the wife of the Minister arrived the tarmac to board the
plane with her entourage. The staff of the airline ordered the door of the
aircraft to be shut ,although the Minister’s wife was seen walking towards the
plane from the VIP lounge.
“Many of the passengers were
shocked at the behaviour of the airline official and pleaded with the pilot. He
insisted and left the tarmac back to their office. However, the Minister’s wife
politely turned back when the pilot refused to open the aircraft.
“I did not see any security aide trying to
stop the plane from leaving. None of them came to the tarmac. She only came in
company of four or five other women travelling with her, not thirteen persons.
The story being peddled around is nowhere near what we saw,” he said.
Mr Sam is only the eye witness there around right?
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