Thursday 20 October 2011

Oga Prof even you?

Good day people, i know i have never done posts back to back before but i would be off work for a few days so here is today's post, a sort of Part 2 of the last post. This is titled: Oga Prof even you?

Sitting in his University of Portharcourt office, Prof. was visited by the wife and son and they told him that they would like him to accompany them to Cotonou for a few days.

They may have seen the amount of stress he had undergone in the last few years and thought it wise he came along on the holiday. He was reluctant as he claimed, but they kept on piling pressure on him to come along.
Eventually, he succumbed to the pressure, but told them he wasn't packed for the trip (PHC-LOS-COO). The wife and son volunteered to go home to help him pack, and come by the office to pick him up to the airport.

As they packed for him, picked him up at the office and headed to the airport, they must have been excited being able to get the whole family on the trip. The first leg PHC-LOS was a local flight and that went smooth.

They were all checked through and had boarding passes for the LOS-COO sector. So they didn't need to present themselves at check in for the international leg LOS-COO.

The Question: Even you sir?
During the boarding of the flight, with a few passengers to go, it was noticed that Prof. had on him the outdated passport (not the e-passport). Subsequently, he was informed that he would not be boarded.

Observation:
How did you get to the boarding gate sir? Did the immigration officers stamp your passport?

The wife and son eventually went on the flight, and we had to take the Prof. back through immigration to the departure level. The normal procedure is to get the passenger back to immigration so his outward stamp is cancelled.

On approach of the immigration point, the immigration officer inquired as to what transpired (<--hahaha) . After explanation, he made attempt to collect the passport to cancel the stamp. Alas, the passport was never stamped!! So if we had boarded the passenger, there would never have been a record of him leaving the country!

My Suspicion:
He must have realised his mistake at some point and approached an immigration officer to 'Help' him out. Money must have changed hands and off to the gate he came. He had not been stamped out of the country!
He claimed that the immigration officers said it was 'fine', since it was just COTONOU!

He had to sleep in the Airport till the next day, then took a flight back to Portharcourt.

Pay attention to details when travelling people.... PAY ATTENTION!! @lereboy

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