The return of Tosin.
The return journey for Tosin started 11:45 pm on 26th April with an hour journey from the city of Bangalore to the Bengaluru int'l airport. a 3 hour wait before departure for Dubai, a 3 Hour 30 minutes flight to Dubai int'l airport, a 7 hour wait to board a connecting flight to Lagos Nigeria and finally another 7+ hours flight to Lagos.
The flight arrived to schedule, give or take a few minutes, Tosin and all other passengers disembarked and proceeded to the immigration counter. There was no incident here apart from the fact that there was little or no organisation and the room was excessively hot despite the fact that it was already night time.
After clearing immigration, Tosin proceeded to the baggage claim area to pick his baggage. Lo and behold, it took upwards of 2 hours before Tosin got his baggage. people were already getting worried and agitated. Someone even wondered aloud if his baggage had not been mistakenly returned to Dubai or transferred somewhere else. To make matters worse, the room was not air-conditioned and contained over 300 passengers that had just alighted from the emirates Boeing 777-300 airplane and some other people from a KLM flight. It was a terrible, hot and smelly situation.
Oh! Did i mention that Superstar DJ, The only DJ fit to play for the gods A.K.A. "This is football", A.K.A "It is I" was also there. after rocking his business class return trip from Dubai, I looked across at him waiting for close to an hour or more awaiting his baggage in his Manchester united jersey, rucksack on his back in the hot and overcrowded baggage claim section.
Incident 2. After getting his baggage and proceeding for the exits, he was accosted by the Immigration/NDLEA officials who requested that he opened his boxes. Due to the fact that He had to take off all metalic at different screening points, Tosin had dropped the keys to his baggage inside his laptop bag. This was the occasion when the yeye key decided to hide itself. so Tosin had to empty the contents of the bag in search of the keys. As he was doing this, a senior officer walked to the one attending to Tosin and the following conversation ensued:
Senior Officer: What is happening here ?
Junior Officer: He is looking for his keys to open his box.
Senior Officer: He is taking too long, he will cause hold up here o.
Junior Officer: Have you found the keys ? (To Tosin)
Tosin: Not yet
Senior Officer: Instead of wasting time, why not tell him what to do!
Junior Officer: I have told him
Senior Officer: Let him drop something and move on
Junior Officer: You heard Oga (To Tosin, who didn't reply)
Senior Officer: Let him drop €50 or $100 and move on, we are not interested in his baggage.
Without doing anything, they wanted to collect $100 (#17k at that time) from Tosin! If they had lifted his box on their head and taken it to the new car park which is quite some distance from from the arrival hall, it still wouldn't have warranted asking for € 50 (#12k at that time).
Officers: Oga you can go! You harsh o! You no even answer as we dey talk! You be Ijebu man?
Remember Tosin had vowed that the next time he is travelling, he will be prepared and make sure everything was intact with no reason for anyone to try to try and delay him...
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!!
The Flight touched down at a few minutes after 7 pm and Tosin finally got home 11:45 pm. 2+ hours to get the baggage and get out of the airport.
The remaining time was spent trying to get to the car park which is miles away and there were just a couple of golf carts (or whatever they are called) to transport passengers.
Then the mad traffic.
Naija I hail!
The return journey for Tosin started 11:45 pm on 26th April with an hour journey from the city of Bangalore to the Bengaluru int'l airport. a 3 hour wait before departure for Dubai, a 3 Hour 30 minutes flight to Dubai int'l airport, a 7 hour wait to board a connecting flight to Lagos Nigeria and finally another 7+ hours flight to Lagos.
The flight arrived to schedule, give or take a few minutes, Tosin and all other passengers disembarked and proceeded to the immigration counter. There was no incident here apart from the fact that there was little or no organisation and the room was excessively hot despite the fact that it was already night time.
After clearing immigration, Tosin proceeded to the baggage claim area to pick his baggage. Lo and behold, it took upwards of 2 hours before Tosin got his baggage. people were already getting worried and agitated. Someone even wondered aloud if his baggage had not been mistakenly returned to Dubai or transferred somewhere else. To make matters worse, the room was not air-conditioned and contained over 300 passengers that had just alighted from the emirates Boeing 777-300 airplane and some other people from a KLM flight. It was a terrible, hot and smelly situation.
Oh! Did i mention that Superstar DJ, The only DJ fit to play for the gods A.K.A. "This is football", A.K.A "It is I" was also there. after rocking his business class return trip from Dubai, I looked across at him waiting for close to an hour or more awaiting his baggage in his Manchester united jersey, rucksack on his back in the hot and overcrowded baggage claim section.
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| Baggage Claim . Source: Web |
Incident 1. Tosin had to pay to get a trolley to move his baggage. This still remains the only country i have heard that being done (I stand to be corrected).
Incident 2. After getting his baggage and proceeding for the exits, he was accosted by the Immigration/NDLEA officials who requested that he opened his boxes. Due to the fact that He had to take off all metalic at different screening points, Tosin had dropped the keys to his baggage inside his laptop bag. This was the occasion when the yeye key decided to hide itself. so Tosin had to empty the contents of the bag in search of the keys. As he was doing this, a senior officer walked to the one attending to Tosin and the following conversation ensued:
Senior Officer: What is happening here ?
Junior Officer: He is looking for his keys to open his box.
Senior Officer: He is taking too long, he will cause hold up here o.
Junior Officer: Have you found the keys ? (To Tosin)
Tosin: Not yet
Senior Officer: Instead of wasting time, why not tell him what to do!
Junior Officer: I have told him
Senior Officer: Let him drop something and move on
Junior Officer: You heard Oga (To Tosin, who didn't reply)
Senior Officer: Let him drop €50 or $100 and move on, we are not interested in his baggage.
Without doing anything, they wanted to collect $100 (#17k at that time) from Tosin! If they had lifted his box on their head and taken it to the new car park which is quite some distance from from the arrival hall, it still wouldn't have warranted asking for € 50 (#12k at that time).
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| $100 and €50. Source: Web |
Officers: Oga you can go! You harsh o! You no even answer as we dey talk! You be Ijebu man?
Remember Tosin had vowed that the next time he is travelling, he will be prepared and make sure everything was intact with no reason for anyone to try to try and delay him...
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!!
The Flight touched down at a few minutes after 7 pm and Tosin finally got home 11:45 pm. 2+ hours to get the baggage and get out of the airport.
The remaining time was spent trying to get to the car park which is miles away and there were just a couple of golf carts (or whatever they are called) to transport passengers.Then the mad traffic.
Naija I hail!
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