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A Ghanaian employee with Delta Airlines has reportedly been fired after he exposed a security breach at the JFK Airport in New York.
Eric Amankwah, a customer service agent, is quoted by the Black Star newspaper network as saying that he was ordered by his supervisor on 2nd January to evade customs officials and deliver a suitcase to other airport employees so that it could be loaded onto an outgoing flight without inspection.
Twenty-eight-year-old Amankwah claims that he was told that Delta Airlines would be fined if the suitcase went through customs.
Fearing that he had violated the law and was being set up by his bosses, he e-mailed and called two of his supervisors, seeking reassurance that he wouldn't face any disciplinary action over what he had been ordered to do.
Amankwah recorded his conversations and sent e-mails to Delta's CEO and other top executives about what he described as his "special assignment."
When he returned to work later, he said he was interviewed and suspended by Delta's director of operations at JFK.
Amankwah said he had also been suspended in mid-December, and that a second suspension meant he was immediately terminated.
A lawyer for Amankwah told Fox News channel that the details of the report are essentially correct.
But Delta Airlines spokesman Ed Stewart says Amankwah was not fired and that they want to talk with him.
Stewart could neither confirm nor deny the rest of the story, but said an investigation is underway — and that Amankwah's supervisors are being interviewed.
Source: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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