Air Men Beat FAAN Official To Coma

An official of the Federal Airports Authority of
Nigeria (FAAN), was Monday beaten to stupor by
two Nigerian Air Force officers in charge of
traffic control at the departure section of the
international terminal wing of Murtala
Muhammed Airport, Lagos.

The FAAN staff, Mohammed Shuaibu, who works
at the protocol and passages of the agency, had
told his friend to pick him at the airport but
when he arrived, the airmen attempted to
remove the number plates of his car.

Shuaibu, dressed in FAAN staff uniform,
introduced himself and showed his identity card,
but an argument reportedly ensued and the Air
Force men descended on him, Vanguard
reports, citing eyewitnesses.

He was beaten by the men until he collapsed.

An official of FAAN told reporters that Shuaibu
had been taken to the airport hospital. He had
first been taken to the FAAN clinic at the airport.

"Shuaibu begged them and introduced himself
as a FAAN staff, but they seemed not to care. By
the time other people arrived the scene, Shuaibu
had collapsed and blood was flowing from
different parts of his body," a FAAN official told
Vanguard.

"We first moved him to FAAN clinic, where they
said his heart beat was slowing down and he
was finding it difficult to breathe.

So we have to
rush him to the airport hospital," the official
added.