Comfort Emmanson Bob, the 26 years old female passenger that was recently seen on viral video allegedly attacked and provoked to action has said that she sustained injuries in her private part when a yet to be identified Ibom Air Staff pulled off her shirt and exposed her nakedness at Lagos Airport, this, according to Comfort, the shirt torn while she was been carried out from the aircraft was her inner wear that was pinned together below her private part, saying, the Ibom Air hostess, had allegedly broke her phone, necklace and forcefully removed her wig hair from her head which caused her a severe sharp pain, and as a result of the pain, she hit the air hostess on the cheek, adding, she became more aggressive when she saw the airport staff video recording her nakedness while she was battling to cover her body as a result of her shirt that was torn with her chest sexual organs completely exposed.
Comfort Emmanson gave her own side of the story in an eleven minute video she posted on her Instagram profile on Sunday, August 17, 2025, which was exactly after one week the incident occurred.
She said she was the one who begged the co-passenger to help switch off her phone when the plane was about to take off at Uyo airport, contrary to the narratives painted by Ibom Air Management that she refused to switch off her phone and a co-passenger onboard the plane forcefully took the phone from her and switched it off, and thereafter, Comfort Emmanson engaged the co-passenger and other staff of the Airline in a long war of words the Ibom Air management referred to as tirade. Details of her statement as transcribed and presented by Channels Television reads verbatim below:
“Comfort Emmanson, an air passenger embroiled in a controversial Ibom Air incident, has given a detailed account of the events on board the flight that led to her arrest, arraignment, and eventual discharge by a Lagos court.
In a video shared on her Instagram page on Sunday, Emmanson expressed gratitude to supporters who stood by her during what she described as a “traumatic” ordeal.
Narrating her version of events, the real estate consultant recalled that on August 10, 2025, she boarded a flight from Uyo to Lagos.
She alleged that a disagreement began when a flight attendant, identified as Juliana, insisted she switched off her phone rather than place it in flight mode. According to her, one of her two phones had a faulty power button.
“I showed her the phone and told her the power button was bad. She said I could still switch it off through the settings. With the help of a fellow passenger, I eventually managed to switch off both phones,” she explained.
“When we landed in Lagos, everybody was getting out of the aircraft. I went to pee. Coming outside, everybody had already left. I had to rush, carry my stuff and move to rush out of the aircraft. Going out of the aircraft, this lady, Juliana, stopped me and I asked her, ‘Why did you stop me?’ ‘Why are you stopping me from going out of the aircraft? Everybody has left. So I need to go out.’
“She didn’t say anything to me. She stared at me with a bad eye. I picked up my phone and started recording. That was when she pushed me back inside the aircraft, dragged my wig frontal, tore my clothes and broke my necklace. The pain was unbearable.
“They dragged me outside. My body was out there, and then they videoed me in the process. My body was out. I was looking for where to cover it. All of them, the surroundings like videos, cameras everywhere. I was surprised because I never expected that, like tearing my clothes and videoing everything.”
“My body outside, my naked body outside, plus the pain. No, it was so much for one person to bear. I started asking them, ‘Why would you do that to me?’ Why would you do this to me? And still like video me again and still put it out there,” she recounted.
Emmanson said she reacted out of anger after being assaulted, insisting she did not provoke the attendant.
“God knows I would never poke an elderly woman old enough to be my mother. It was the pain she inflicted on me, dragging my wig and stripping me in public, that made me react.”
The incident quickly spiralled as security officers intervened. Videos that later surfaced online showed Emmanson being dragged off the aircraft with her clothes torn, sparking outrage and ridicule.
“They tore my clothes, exposed my body, and people were taking videos. I felt humiliated. Like, the trauma is so much on me because I cannot even go out freely anymore because my body is out there. Some people even turned it into stickers,” she lamented.
Shortly after her 11-minute-long video, Emmason, in a follow-up statement on her Instagram story, decried the spread of what she described as false narratives.
“There have been lots of narratives being pushed about the incident, even by respected individuals, some claiming my suffering was political. These are all false. I have received constant victimisation and libel. I only wish for redemption and to regain whatever dignity I have left as a woman,” she wrote.
Acknowledging her reactions on board, she added, “I’ve flown with Ibom Air for years and never experienced this. Whatever happened after I was dragged down from the plane came from a place of pain. My swimsuit was clipped below my privates and torn.
“Imagine the pain as a woman. I would never lay hands on someone old enough to be my mother if she hadn’t assaulted me first. I apologise about my behaviour, I am not crazy, neither am I wayward. I have never been in such a situation in my life, and I don’t wish it on my enemy,” she wrote.”
We had reported that the Federal Government of Nigeria under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered the Commissioner of Police in charge of Lagos Airport to withdraw the one sided and obviously biased court case the Nigeria Police Force may have wrongly instituted against an Ibom Air Passenger, Comfort Emmanson who was seen in viral videos retaliating and defending herself physically after a group of Ibom Air personnel and Lagos Airport team had attacked her and provoked her to action, the FG position on the issue was made known by the Nigeria Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo in a press release the Minister signed and made available few minutes ago, although Festus Keyamo reversed his self and acknowledged that the issue was a case of confrontation between the 26 years old passenger and the staff of Ibom Airlines who in the new press release admitted that the staff of Ibom Air and the Lagos Airport authority team acted wrongly, but, the Minister did not state how the attacked passenger would be compensated most especially when her chest sexual organs were seems to be deliberately exposed after a suspected Ibom Airline staff pulled off and tore the passenger shirt with obvious intention to expose the passenger’s nakedness, the action of the Federal Government may eased the tension among millions of people who have accused the Nigeria Police Force of aiding and abetting the Ibom Airline company to continue to attack and oppress the offended passenger, Comfort Bob who is also identified as Comfort Emmanson by thus supporting the statement of Ibom Air management who in their first press release made statement that seems to have some level of deliberate falsehood and raising up a dead issue to win undue public sentiments, manipulate the Nigeria Police Force to help them secure detention holding charge from the Lagos State Magistrate Court to further oppress and intimidate the attacked passenger, specifically, Ibom Air stated in her first press release that, shortly after the plane landed at Lagos Airport, the passenger waited for every other passenger onboard the plane to disembark, and thereafter, without provocation, went to one of the Plane hostesses, Juliana Edward the Ibom Air Management described as Purser, “stepped on her, forcibly tore off her wig, removed her glasses and threw it to the floor, and used her footwear to assault her, She slapped her several times and when the other cabin crew member tried to intervene, she slapped her too, She then attempted to forcibly remove a fire extinguisher to use as a weapon, an act that could have damaged and grounded the aircraft”, soon after the Ibom Air Management released the statement on Monday, a video surfaced on the internet that probably invalidated the statement of the Ibom Air Management and stood out as an acceptable evidence that the Management of Ibom Air are people who maybe rightly described as pathological liars who probably believed in telling lies as a way of managing crisis and handling difficult customers relations, as seen in the viral video that surfaced the internet after the apparent falsehood of Ibom Air Management, the attacked passenger was seen politely telling the air hostess, Juliana Edward to leave the doorway so that she can disembark from the plane, the seemly aggressor in this matter, the Air Hostess Juliana Edward refused to yield to the appeal of the passenger, and Ibom Air Management in their first press release confirmed that the Air Hostess, Juliana Edward deliberately blocked the doorway to prevent the passenger from disembarking the aircraft, and in the viral video, the attached wig hair on the head of the air hostess was still seen on her head and intact while the passenger was telling her to leave the doorway so that she can pass, obviously, this is in contrary to the seemly deliberate falsehood painted and stated in black and white by the Ibom Air Management that the air hostess attached wig hair was destroyed by the passenger without provocation, also, the attached wig hair on the passenger head and the jacket she was putting on were still intact as at the time she was telling the apparent aggressor, the air hostess to leave the door, and another viral video later showed both the air hostess and the passenger dragging at the point of the plane divider cotten, and at this time as seen in the video, both the passenger and air hostess wig hair were pulled off including the passenger jacket she was putting on to cover her body completely, the natural hair on their heads could now be seen as they continued to drag each other at the plane doorway, and Ibom Air management in trying to seemly win undue public sentiments, raised up a dead issue of a minor quarrel the passenger had with the air hostess and co passenger over the passenger alleged initial refusal to switch off her phone during the plane take off at Uyo airport, the Ibom Air management in the press release confirmed that the minor quarrel the passenger had with the air hostess and co passenger over switching off phone at Uyo airport was already a dead issue and the action of the passenger never led to threat of aviation safety or violation of aviation safety procedures hence the passenger was not deplane at Uyo airport, but we don’t know why the Management of Ibom Air decided to advertise and bring up the minor quarrel as a way to seemly win public sentiments to cover up the true picture of a separate event that occurred between the passenger and the air hostess when the plane landed at Lagos Air Port, and the Nigeria Police Force in the five count charges filed against the passenger at the Ikeja Magistrate court in Lagos State, did not state or even mention the event that occurred at Uyo airport before the plane took off.
We had reported that the Nigeria Aviation Minister, Festus Keyamo says the ministry has directed for the Aviation staff who released the video footage containing the aspect of an Ibom Airlines passenger, Comfort Emmanson or Bob seen in an indecent appearance with her chest sexual organs exposed after the passenger shirt was torn by an Ibom Airlines staff while security operatives were seen in the viral video dragging the aggrieved passenger out of the aircraft following an act of confrontation between the passenger and Ibom Airlines hostesses which one of the hostesses blocked the right of way of the passenger and prevented the passenger from disembarking from the plane, and after countless warning to the Airline passenger to leave the road, the passenger went physical with the hostess by allegedly slapping her on the face which the confrontation with the hostess apparently led to the alleged destruction of the plane divider cotton which Ibom Airlines valued at $2,500 as stated in count 5 of the 5 count charges the police filed against the passenger at Ikeja Magistrate court in Lagos State.
We had reproted that a careful study of the viral video involving the Ibom Airline Personnel, Lagos Airport Security operatives and an aggrieved passenger, Comfort Emmanson onboard the Airline Plane on Sunday indicated that while the enraged passenger was being dragged off the plane by three men; who held her two hands and legs, suspending her a little bit on the air, a lady putting on Ibom Air corporate clothes who was behind the camera lens could be seen in the video to have approached the passenger at the door point of the plane while the passenger was about to be taking out, apparently dipped her hand towards the waist part of the passenger, untucked the passenger shirt from the trousers, grabbed and pulled the passenger’s shirt towards her head, and in the process, the passenger shirt got tore and the passenger’s chest sexual organs or private parts were completely exposed, the action of the Ibom Airline staff appeared to be deliberate, as the Airline female staff was not part of those dragging the passenger off the aircraft and after the female passenger’s body was exposed, the Ibom Airlines female staff never joined or assisted the security operatives to drag the passenger off the plane, this indicated that, the motive of the female staff of Ibom Airline was solely to remove the passenger shirt and expose the aggrieved airline passenger to ridicule.