Nigerian Bishop to sue Turkish Airline over missing luggage

An Abuja-based Bishop N.I Obayojie booked a return ticket from Nigeria to Italy on Lufthansa Airlines in March 2018 and while returning to Nigeria on 19th of March, 2018, they had a stopover in Frankfurt and for whatever reason they had, he was transferred from Lufthansa to Turkish Airlines .......

Bishop got to Abuja. Alas! His entire luggage of two big bags were missing. He reported this to the airline but had to go home without his luggage or gifts meant for his family. He had bought gifts for his wife, children, children’s spouses, grandchildren, extended family, staff and even church members. After several days of frantic calls, one of the bags was found and sent to him. The other bag, a brand new one at that, which contained all the expensive gifts and new things were not found till today.

Worse is the shabby way Turkish Airlines have handled the matter. They asked the 70 year old Bishop to give them a list of everything in the bag with receipts after admitting they could not produce the bag. He managed to list the ones he could remember, items costing thousands of euros and chose to forgo the ones he didn’t for peace’ sake. He has sent several correspondence back and forth. Turkish Airlines sent him a ridiculous offer of 900 dollars for the entire missing luggage, when only the bag costs 700 euros. How annoying!

Bishop Obayojie plans to sue them but how long will Nigerians continue to suffer in the hands of these airlines? Soon to guarantee luggage safety,we would have to carry them on our laps when we travel.....

Stella Dimoko Korkus