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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