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.”
