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By Chinelo Obogo
Pathfinder International, an aviation security company, has suspended a staff for circumventing the medication dispatch procedure and tried to use a passenger to courier it overseas.
The company, while confirming the name of the medication to be Glucosamine Chondroitin, said it decided to suspend the erring staff because it has zero tolerance for indiscipline. It however, said full-scale investigation was still ongoing.
Fred Omosebi, the Chief Operating Officer (COO), Pathfinder Company, in a statement, explained that the staff, whose identity was concealed, attempted to send out the medicine to Accra, Ghana through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos and approached a passenger who was travelling to the West Coast country through one of the airlines on that route.
Omosebi further stated that the staff in question had been withdrawn from all its operations, pending the outcome of the investigation. The company, however, kicked against the mode of attempted transportation of the medication, saying it negated its policy and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). He explained that the identity of the staff in the viral video was confirmed after it conducted an investigation into the viral video.
The statement read: “Upon investigation, we discovered that the person in question is one of our staff who stated he was assisting a family relation in sending his personal medication to Accra. The medication is Glucosamine Chondroitin which has been confirmed by the NDLEA not to be a prohibited drug in Nigeria.
“The mode of transportation is, however, totally against Pathfinders’ policy and SOP and we condemn it in the strongest terms. Even as investigation continues, the staff involved has been withdrawn from all Pathfinders operations pending the outcome of the investigation. We wish to reiterate that the action of the staff is not in tandem with the operational policies and procedures of Pathfinders International as enshrined in our security programme and practice.”
