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Poetic Justice: Akunyili grilled at Chicago Airport amidst aggro What is good for the goose ...

Posted by Egbes Ogbeide on June 11, 2009 at 8:22pm
THE Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, was at Chicago Airport, United States, grilled after she was asked to step aside and delayed for minutes.The minister was attending an award ceremony organised for her son, Dr. Edozie, which took place at the famous Crystal Gardens , Navy Pier, Chicago Illinois.Dr. Edozie, a graduate of Rosalind Franklin University, received the 2009 excellence in emergency medicine award and was also the only Nigerian in the class of 2009 who received the Gold Humanism Honour Society Award in the US.Trouble started for the minister when every other immigrant was allowed to pass, leaving her and her daughter-in law behind for “closer scrutiny.”Disclosing her ordeal in Abuja, the minister stated that her bag and international passport were unusually screened, though the immigration officials, after the humiliating experience, found out that she was a minister and apologised for the treatment.But the minister who had in the past, expressed disappointment over the way Nigerians were humiliated at international borders as if all Nigerians were criminals, said she retorted at the officials that they had better be sorry as she spent minutes, insisting that the negative perception about the country and her citizens who travel abroad as criminals must be stopped
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