The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has said that the operatives of the Department of State Services have no business with searching the bags of passengers at airports.
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development stated this in an interview on Sunday on an Arise TV programme: “This Morning.”
Keyamo said: “We’ll sit down, but we need to take this step.
“DSS, you are not, you have no business searching people’s bags.
“You are profiling individuals who are going out of the country, people who have been, maybe who are under security checks and all that.”
On the multiple agencies at the airport, which causes long queues, Keyamo said his ministry has no power over the operations of the DSS, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Nigeria Customs Service, and Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service.
He said: “All these agencies at our airports are not directly under our control.
“You have multiple agencies: DSS, NDLA, Customs, and Quarantine.
“And these were in place before we came into office.
“And they are not directly under my control for us to begin to remove them from the airport.”
