Comrade Phils

Comrade Phils (born Philip Thomas, 9 November 1983) is a Nigerian human rights activist and citizen journalist known for exposing corruption in the Nigerian immigration service and others.
Encounter With Prison Service
in 2017, Comrade Phils visited controversial journalist Kemi Olunlonyo, who was incarcerated in the Port Harcourt Maximum Prisons where he encountered first hand extortion and bribery by Prison Service Officers. He shared experience on his Facebook wall and it went viral and led to a call for the release of the jailed journalist using the hash tag #FreeMadamKOO.
Encounter With the Immigration Service
In April 2019, A Nigerian online Newspaper, Wired Nigeria wrote that he was assaulted and walked out of the Immigration Office in Port Harcourt for refusing to pay a bribe and insisting on paying only government stipulated fee for his passport renewal. A video of the incident went viral attracting the attention of the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Mohammed Babandede, who tweeted in his defense. A New York based news platform, Sahara Reporters wrote that the Immigration Authorities in Nigeria backed his case against officers who assaulted him for refusing to pay a bribe. His passport was later renewed and the offending officer are currently on investigation by the Immigration Office. The issues of similar corrupt incidents in the Nigerian Immigration services dates back to a report in 2017.
Saving A Trafficked Nigerian Girl
While traveling to Kigali to speak at an event organized by AMAA via the Kenya Airways, he met a [http://bigpenngr.com/citizen-journalist-narrates-how-they-saved-a-girl-that-was-being-trafficked-to-oman-dubai/#.XK2qt5i2ldg young Nigerian girl trafficked to Oman] from Lagos, Nigeria. He engaged her and convinced her to abort the journey and alerted the management of the Kenya Airways who assisted in returning her on another flight back to Lagos.

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