Passengers stranded at Lagos airport
A BBC reporter, identified as Yemisi Adegoke, took to her Twitter
page, @briticoyemo, on Tuesday night to reveal how air passengers were
stranded on Tuesday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos
following a power outage.
According to multiple online reports, the passengers were said to
have been kept in the dark for hours as immigration officials did not
address the anxious crowd, as the airport did not switch to another
alternative power while the power outage lasted.
It was gathered that the airport officials were said to have taken
foreigners among the passengers to another section of the airport where
there was power.
Scenes at the airport during the blackout
Passengers were said to have been frustrated as they could not proceed with the boarding processes.
“At Lagos International Airport and there is currently no power…and by the look of it NO GEN,” Adegoke tweeted.
“Passengers going MAD because officials started allowing
foreigners to go to the other side or the airport, where there is
electricity. One woman was yelling “would they do this for us if we were
in their country?”
The light was later restored while passengers were attended to by immigration officials.
Read her tweets as she narrated the event at the airport below;
Incredible scenes at the commercial capital of Nigeria’s international airport. NO ELECTRICITY. NO GENERATOR. NO EXPLANATION.— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018
Passengers are waiting to get through immigration. pic.twitter.com/tFtt9V7RZY
An immigration officer is complaining about what this looks like to ‘foreigners.’ 🙄— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018
It’s better this way abeg.
Let them experience the shambolic nonsense straight out of the gate.
It’s hot here ooooo.— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018
And I’m wondering how long we’ll be held here as no one is saying anything... to the Nigerians anyway. 🙄
People are getting pissed because one passenger asked an official to let us know what is happening and another official responded ‘na we get airport?’🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃 pic.twitter.com/RBCkG8er17— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018
An official jacked me why I’m disgracing my county (by taking pics etc)— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018
Guess my response🙃😊🤔
Passengers going MAD because officials started allowing foreigners to go to the other side or the airport, where there is electricity.— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018
One woman was yelling "would they do this for us if we were in their country?" pic.twitter.com/D0iwLvABWM
We are now on the other side,of the airport, where there’s power.— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018
Looks like whatever fault is on the one wing.
People in line keep saying “sell the country” and some dude said “who wan buy am?”
Ladies and gents, I am finished.
Someone asked him so what do we do [about Nigeria] then?— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018
He replied: “Bury it and cover it with sand.
We made it through!!!— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018
What a welcome lmao.
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