A woman from Cameroon who had disguised as ac Guatemalan citizen was barred from entering the country, officials of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) said. Marc Red Mariñas, BI officer in charge and deputy commissioner and Port Operations Division chief, identified the passenger as Clarisse Nankia, 43, who was immediately excluded on Wednesday when she attempted to enter Manila with a fraudulent Guatemalan passport as well as a Guatemalan identification card. Mariñas said Nankia was intercepted at NAIA Terminal 1 upon her arrival aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa. He added that the woman was then booked on the first available flight back to her port of origin after immigration officers found she was carrying spurious Guatemalan travel documents. The BI officials in NAIA began to doubt Nankia’s identity when she could not converse in Spanish, the official language of Guatemala. Her Guatemalan passport and identification card were both declared fraudulent by BI’s forensic document laboratory.
