By Chris Udochukwu
ABUJA FCT – Federal lawmaker that represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the 8th National Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani has reacted to the action of Mrs Favour Igiebor who tore the international passport of her husband at the Lagos Airport, saying that technologists needs to develop app or device that can read the inner mind of a Woman and alert her man immediately.
Shehu Sani added that women have the unique abilities of looking calm on their faces while there is a raging fire inside of them.
Precise Post recalls that Shehu Sani”s reaction is coming barely twenty-four hours after the Director General of the National Orientation Agency, Mallam Lanre Issa Onilu said the Agency will support moves by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to investigate and prosecute Mrs Favour Igiebor for tearing her husband’s International Passport at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos in line with with section 10 (B) of the Immigration Act, 2015 as a deterrence to those who may willfully damage an important national symbol as the International Passport.
The NOA Boss said her action constitute an affront against the law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
According to the DG, the International passport issued by the Nigerian Immigration Service is the property of the Federal government and no person who has the privilege of owning one should abuse or even damage them under whatever guise. What the lady has done is a grievous assault to our collective asset and dent on the symbol of our identity as a nation.
Mallam Issa- Onilu also appealed to citizens to continue to show respect for the National Symbols as part of our patriotic commitment to national development saying the NOA as the custodian of these symbols will continue to promote their use and integrity. He however stressed that the incident calls for increased public enlightenment and awareness campaigns by all Nigerians on the National Symbols and the importance of it in the country.
The passport is one the core national symbols that are enshrined in the nation’s ordinance as patriotic icon representing countries for which its derives its identity especially among nations.