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Tuesday 1 October 2013

SECURITY ALERT: ANOTHER 3-STOWAWAY TEENAGERS BEAT THE SECURITY AT THE LAGOS AIRPORT

Six weeks ago a teenager, Daniel Ihekina ,was arrested at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, after he had beat the security at the Airport and sneaked into tire compartment of Arik plane.

The Airport Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested yet another three teenagers namely: Lateef Popoola, 13; Amadi Joshua, 14; and Ukpabio Onyedikachi, 14, for allegedly attempting to illegally board some international flights in Lagos.

Commissioner of Police for the command, Salahu Waheed, said , “These boys were found at different times at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. Their aim was to get into any plane and travel out of Nigeria.

“I decided to hand them over to their parents so they will be well taken care of and stop dwelling on the fantasy that you can just come into the airport, enter a plane and travel.

“Their state governments should try to rehabilitate them just like Edo State did for the stowaway in Benin.

“Lateef Popoola is from Ogun State; Amadi Joshua is from Ebonyi while Ukpabio Onyedikachi is from Abia State.

“The airport is not a place that you can just come into and travel. There are formalities. We don’t want to see these children here again.”

Waheed, while handing over the suspects to their mothers, 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.

Meanwhile, we need to look at this stowaway issue from different angles, one, what would prompted a 14 years old children to run away from their respective  houses? Is it the lack of parental care? Or i don’t care attitude of their parents? Or the moral values that is no longer there?

Secondly, how come that the security at the airport broke down again? Nigeria airports are the only airport where you see an array of uniform people without even you know which organisations they are working for.
It is high time they over-haul the security of all the airports across nation. What if these teenagers were members of terrorist group?

A country that cannot secure the life and properties of its citizen need to be question? What are the job of Police, and all other security agents at the airport? Are they only at the airport to embarrass  people or to collect bribe?  

One of the teenagers, Lateef ,said he was able to gain access to the runaway by sneaking into an airport apron bus, but was arrested shortly after alighting.
 “I am not in school; I dropped out in Primary three. I was arrested last week Wednesday. I actually wanted to travel but I have yet to decide where I will go. So, I just went to the tarmac to see the aeroplanes.”Lateef added.