The only disadvantage of celebrating
and giving scholarship to Daniel
Oikhena is this - copy cats.
Apparently impressed by the national
recognition Daniel got for beating
airport security and successfully flying in
the tyre hole of a Lagos-bound Arik
plane from Benin, three teenage boys
have attempted to do the same. Lateef
Popolla, 13 (from Ogun State) Amadi
Joshua, 14 (from Ebonyi state) and
Ukpabio Onyedikachi, 14 (from Abia
State) were arrested at different times
at the Murtala Mohammed
International Airport, Ikeja by the
Airport Command of the Nigeria Police
Force for allegedly attempting to
illegally board some international flights
in Lagos, Punch reports.
The commissioner of police at the
airport command said
the boys were
found at different times at the airport
with the aim of getting into any plane
and travel out of Nigeria. The boys deny
they were attempting to board any
plane...
The teenagers gave
different reasons
for their actions. Lateef who is a
Primary 3 dropout who resides with his
grandmother said he went to the
tarmac to see the planes and thereafter
decide on where he would travel to. he
was arrested after he came out from
one of the airport apron buses. he said
" I actually wanted to travel but I have
not yet decided where I will go. So, I
just went to the tarmac to see the
aeroplanes.”
Lateef’s grandmother, Adunni, said she
had no idea that her grandson was
nursing the idea of travelling out of the
country. She said she had been
responsible for his upkeep since his
mother abandoned him at infancy. I did
not know that he wanted to travel. I
just did not see him last week and I
started looking for him all over the
place. It was on Saturday that I finally
found out that he had been arrested,”
she said.
Onyedikachi and Joshua were said to
have been arrested after asking some
security agents where Malaysia flights
were boarding. Onyedikachi who has a
brother that resides in malaysia nursed
the intention of travelling to see him.
After being questioned, the boys, who
were both in SS1, said they had no
travel documents and were
immediately arrested.
Onyedikachi, however said, “We were at
the departure area of the airport. We
did not attempt to travel out. We were
just loitering and wanted to see the
aeroplanes. We did not want to travel
out on that day.”Onyedikachi’s mother
berated her son for his escapade. She
said she had warned him and Joshua to
be well behaved at all times. She said,
“I had no knowledge of what they did.
Onyedikachi is well taken care of and is
not suffering. I don’t know what
pushed him to do this.”
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