Immigration Officer at MMIA retrieves $5,000, credit card, others of Foreign passenger

Chief Immigration Assistant, CIA Omodayo Odewenwa 

No fewer than $5,000, credit cards and an Identification Number (ID) card of yet to be identified foreign passenger have been retrieved at the Visa on Arrival (VoA) point at the E-Wing Arrival section of Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. 

The items belonging to a foreign passenger was retrieved by an officer of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at the airport.

Apart from the dollar currency, it was also gathered that other foreign currencies were also retrieved by the officer whose name is Omodayo Odewenwa a Chief Immigration Assistant (CIA) recently redeployed to the Lagos International Airport from the Ikoyi Passport office.

The items as gathered by our aviation correspondent were discovered in a folder wallet on the ground around the VoA hall of the terminal.

When contacted on phone on the development, the NIS Comptroller MMIA, Lagos, Mrs. Adeola Adesokan,  confirmed the development and commended the honest act of the officer.

She said, officers of the Command have been constantly inbred with operational and attitudinal reforms in recent time, assuring that the command would continue to perform its assigned duties with utmost professionalism and dignity of purpose.

The comptroller enjoined the travelling public to always have confidence in interacting with the Immigration officers as they are at the airport to serve all travellers.

It was also learnt by our correspondent that the command has escalated the incident through an email to the supposed owner, but as at the time of filing this report, it was yet to receive a response.

The NIS MMIA, Lagos has assured that the items are safely kept in the command.