Keyamo Opposes DSS Bag Searches At Airports

Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has expressed disapproval of the Department of State Services (DSS) conducting bag searches at airports, stating that such actions are not within their purview.

During an interview on Arise News’ This Morning programme, Keyamo remarked: “We’ll sit down, but we needed 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.”

Addressing issues related to long queues at airports, Keyamo emphasized the need for Customs officials to concentrate solely on imported items rather than those being exported.

“All these agencies at our airports are not directly under our control; you have multiple agencies, DSS, NDLA, Customs, and Quarantine,” he explained. “And these were in place before we came into office, and they were not directly under my control for us to begin to remove them from the airport.”

It is worth noting that on December 5, the federal government approved measures aimed at addressing some of these concerns.