THE
teenage stowaway, Daniel Ihekina, who was arrested at the Lagos Airport
after flying in the tyre hole of an Arik plane from Benin to Lagos on
Saturday morning, thought he was on a US-bound flight.
A source at the Benin Airport who
disclosed this said the boy’s parents had already departed for Lagos in
search of the stowaway.
The airport source, who did not want his
name in print said, “From what we heard, the boy said he was being
maltreated and tried to escape from his parents. He thought he was on
his way to the US.
“The parents have travelled to Lagos by road, to get him back.”
Meanwhile, investigations conducted by
one of our correspondents in Lagos revealed that the boy had been handed
over to the operatives of the State Security Services for further
investigation.
The FAAN spokesman said the nature and
circumstances surrounding the crime informed the agency decision to hand
over the stowaway to the SSS operatives.
However, FAAN has also continued to trade blame with Arik Air over the Benin incident.
The agency, in a statement on Sunday,
said it read with “great dismay the statement released by Arik Airlines
about the stowaway found on board Arik’s flight 544 from Benin to Lagos
on Saturday 24 August, 2013.”
So what kind of maltreatment will make a teenage boy conceive the idea of escaping from his parents in an airplane tire hole?
In the news today was also the suicide of the young lady who killed herself over her mothers uncomplimentary remarks. Parents, please make una thread cautiously o. Sofly, sofly, abeg.
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