The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has blacklisted popular Fuji musician, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, known as K1 De Ultimate, over his conduct at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja, on Tuesday.
The musician was involved in an altercation during a flight on ValueJet taking off to Lagos as he reportedly refused instruction to board with a liquid substance said to be Alcohol.
The incident forced the airline's flight crew to breach safety protocol by attempting to depart without completing the pre-departure procedure while the two pilots were suspended by the regulatory authority.
However giving further clarification on the incident in a chat with newsmen on the sidelines of the 29th annual conference of the League of Airports and Aviation Correspondents in Lagos, Director of Public Relations and Consumer Affairs of the NCAA, Michael Achimugu, disclosed that the said passenger had been blacklisted.
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Daily Trust reports that with the blacklist he might not be able to fly on any airline against until the sanction is lifted.
Achimugu said everyone involved in the incident would be duly punished.
He disclosed that the NCAA is writing the Attorney General of the Federation and the Inspector General of Police to institute a court case against the musician.
He said, "Everybody who needs to be punished or sanctioned will receive justice. The NCAA is writing the Attorney General of the Federation and the Inspector General of Police, as we speak, to take up a court case against the passenger in this case.
"Many people might not want to believe that this particular passenger was blacklisted because he was close to the presidency, like you said, during that incident."
The Director stated that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, are respecters of rule of law.
"President Bola Ahmed Tunubu, if you know him very well, is a respecter of the law. And so is the Honorable Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo. Both of them submit themselves to every security check at every airport everywhere in the world.
"No other Nigerian is above the law. A law that the president himself obeys, no Nigerian is above that law. We've seen the NCAA holding meetings, especially with freighters and airlines."
