Another teenager stowaway bid foiled in Lagos

Lagos — Another teenager yesterday
attempted to stow away and was
apprehended at the airside of the Murtala
Muhammed Airport, Lagos. He attempted
to stow away on an Allied Air Cargo
aircraft that was preparing for take-off.
This came almost one month after the
Nigeria Police, Airport Command, paraded
three teenagers for attempted stow away
at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, MMA,
Lagos.
The incident, according to airport sources,
occurred in the early hours of yesterday.
The teenager whose name could not be
ascertained at the time of this report was
spotted by the airside staff of the Nigerian
Aviation Handling Company, NAHCo, who
were handling the aircraft.
After his arrest, he was handed over to
Aviation Security, AVSEC, of the Federal
Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN.
The sources further said the boy was
taken out of the airside by AVSEC officials
to an unknown place.
However, coordinating spokesman of the
aviation agencies, Mr. Yakubu Dati could
not be reached for his comments at the
time of this report.
*File: Would-be stowaways: From left—
Onyedikachi Ukpabio 14; Lateef Popoola
13, and Joshua Amadi, 14.
It will be recalled that the Commissioner
of Police, Airport Command, Salahu
Waheed, said the three stowaway
suspects, Lateef Popoola, 13; Amadi
Joshua, 14; and Ukpabio
Onyedikachi, 14, were arrested at
different times at the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport, Ikeja.
Waheed, while handing over the suspects
to their mothers, had said there was a
need for their respective state
governments to rehabilitate them like the
Edo State Government did with teenage
stowaway, Daniel Ihekina, who was
arrested on August 24, 2013 after
sneaking into the tyre compartment of a
Lagos-bound Arik plane.

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