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.