Ayodeji Omotade cleared of all charges by British Airways

Ayodeji Omotade, the UK-based Nigerian IT consultant who was removed from a Lagos-bound British Airways flight on March 27, 2008 after complaining to immigration officials and airline staff about the rough treatment of a fellow Nigerian facing deportation back to Nigeria as officials tried to seat him on the same flight, has been cleared of all charges, including causing affray and causing a disturbance following the incident in which 135 other passengers, most of them Nigerian, were also ejected from the flight after they joined Omotade in the protest although half of them were later seated and went on the flight.

Omotade was seen as the “catalyst” of the protest and the pilot refused to fly the plane until all the Africans were ejected out of the plane because they posed a “threat” to his crew.

Shortly after the incident, a formal boycott of British Airways was launched. The British High Commissioner in Nigeria sent a half-hearted apology to the passengers but most them said the apology was not complete and insisted that they wanted a formal apology directly from British Airways.

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