The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has condemned the actions of the head of the Department of State Security whom it said breached security procedures and assaulted an aviation security official at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja.
In a tweet on Wednesday, FAAN noted with dismay that “Safiyanu Abba, the head of DSS, at NAIA deliberately obstructed the airport security process, and slapped an Aviation Security Officer who was performing his duty”.
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“We are calling on Safiyanu Abba to desist from doing so. This happened on the 17th July at about 15:25 hours. He breached security procedure by obstructing further searching of a visitor who had just walked through the metal detector and activated the alarm,” the airports authority tweeted via its official handle @FAAN_Official.
“FAAN strongly condemns this abuse of power and the security process in our airport. This has also been duly escalated,” it said.
