Another teenager stowaway bid foiled in 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.

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.