A BBC reporter, identified as Yemisi Adegoke, took to her Twitter page, @briticoyemo, on Tuesday night to reveal how air passengers were stranded on Tuesday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos following a power outage.

 

According to multiple online reports, the passengers were said to have been kept in the dark for hours as immigration officials did not address the anxious crowd, as the airport did not switch to another alternative power while the power outage lasted.

 

It was gathered that the airport officials were said to have taken foreigners among the passengers to another section of the airport where there was power.

 

Scenes at the airport during the blackout

 

Passengers were said to have been frustrated as they could not proceed with the boarding processes.

“At Lagos International Airport and there is currently no power…and by the look of it NO GEN,” Adegoke tweeted.

“Passengers going MAD because officials started allowing foreigners to go to the other side or the airport, where there is electricity. One woman was yelling “would they do this for us if we were in their country?”

 

The light was later restored while passengers were attended to by immigration officials.

 

Read her tweets as she narrated the event at the airport below;

Incredible scenes at the commercial capital of Nigeria’s international airport. NO ELECTRICITY. NO GENERATOR. NO EXPLANATION.

Passengers are waiting to get through immigration. pic.twitter.com/tFtt9V7RZY

— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018

An immigration officer is complaining about what this looks like to ‘foreigners.’ 🙄

It’s better this way abeg.

Let them experience the shambolic nonsense straight out of the gate.

— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018

It’s hot here ooooo.

And I’m wondering how long we’ll be held here as no one is saying anything… to the Nigerians anyway. 🙄

— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018

People are getting pissed because one passenger asked an official to let us know what is happening and another official responded ‘na we get airport?’🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃 pic.twitter.com/RBCkG8er17

— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018

An official jacked me why I’m disgracing my county (by taking pics etc)

Guess my response🙃😊🤔

— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018

Passengers going MAD because officials started allowing foreigners to go to the other side or the airport, where there is electricity.

One woman was yelling “would they do this for us if we were in their country?” pic.twitter.com/D0iwLvABWM

— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018

We are now on the other side,of the airport, where there’s power.

Looks like whatever fault is on the one wing.

People in line keep saying “sell the country” and some dude said “who wan buy am?”

Ladies and gents, I am finished.

— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018

Someone asked him so what do we do [about Nigeria] then?

He replied: “Bury it and cover it with sand.

— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018

We made it through!!!

What a welcome lmao.

— Yemisi Adegoke (@briticoyemo) November 13, 2018