Labour Party has called on President Bola Tinubu to ensure equal treatment to K1 and Emmanson, recently involved in the breach of airport safety protocols.
The party, in a statement by Ken Asogwa, Senior Special Assistant (Media) to the interim national chairman, Senator Nenadi Usman, said, “The president must ensure that his friend, Kwam 1, faces the same accountability meted out to Ms. Emmanson. After all, what is good for the goose must also be good for the gander.”
Labour condemned K1’s behaviour, describing it as “flagrant violation of established aviation safety regulations was conveniently glossed over by the relevant authorities, apparently because of the musician’s proximity to the President.”
The statement also lambasted the government’s speedy prosecution of Emmanson, as it frowned at what it referred to as the “swift and shocking sequence of events.”
According to it, “Ms. Emmanson was stripped naked by aviation security, arraigned, imprisoned at Kirikiri Correctional Centre, banned for life from flying Ibom Air, and placed on the Airlines Operators of Nigeria’s ‘No-Fly’list – all within 24 hours of the incident. Who knew Nigerian justice could move with such lightning speed?
“Even more troubling is the timing. This incident comes just days after the shameful Value Jet episode involving Kwam1, where several aviation stakeholders scrambled to defend the musician rather than condemn his recklessness.
“The message from these two episodes could not be clearer: if you are connected to those in power, you can flout the law with impunity. If you are not, the system will come down on you with crushing force. This selective application of justice is not justice at all – it is the most insidious form of pretended justice,” Asogwa lamented.
Chuks Okocha, Sunday Aborisade, Alex Enumah and Linus Aleke
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