An Air Peace cabin crew member, Victory Maduneme, has issued a 72-hour ultimatum to the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) to withdraw a drug allegation made against her, or face legal action.

Speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Friday, Maduneme said she was shocked to be handed a test result that allegedly showed marijuana in her system.

“I was shocked when I was given a test result that said I had marijuana in my system. I was told marijuana stays in the body for 90 days, but when they carried out the follow-up test, I tested negative,” she explained.

She accused NSIB of potentially running a smear campaign against the airline, noting that such actions should not target innocent staff members.

Maduneme further revealed that if not for the intervention of her airline chairman, she could have lost her job and been blacklisted globally.

“If NSIB is doing a smear campaign against the airline, it should keep innocent people away from this. If not for the kindness of my chairman, they would have sacked me and blacklisted me. And once that is done, no airline in the world will employ me, because now they’ve painted me as someone with drugs in her system,” she said.

The flight attendant described the allegation as defamation of character, warning that if the bureau does not retract the statement within 72 hours, she will take legal action.