DSS Has No Business Searching Passengers’ Bags At Airports — Keyamo

Festus Keyamo, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, has indicated that the Department of State Services (DSS) should not search travelers’ baggage at airports.

Keyamo claimed this in an interview on Arise News’ ‘This Morning’ show on Sunday, December 8: “DSS, you are not, and 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.”

Speaking about airport waits created by various agency checks, he stated that customs agents should only focus on commodities imported into the country, not those exported.

“All these agencies at our airports are not directly under our control; you have multiple agencies, DSS, NDLEA, Customs, and Quarantine,” he said.

“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.”