Stowaway:
Pix 1: A teenage boy, Daniel Ihekina, who hid in the tyre hole of Arik
Air flying from Benin to Lagos. Pix 2: The boy being led away by
security agents.
| credits: File copy
| credits: File copy
The
mother of the 13-year-old stowaway, Ricky Daniel Ohikhena, who on
Friday hid in the tyre compartment of an Arik plane on a flight from
Benin to Lagos, was on Monday quizzed for hours by a combined team of
security operatives from the Department of State Security Service and
aviation security.
The mother, Evelyn, who confirmed that
she was quizzed by the SSS operatives, said her son was a nice boy who
never displayed any tendency for such a dangerous venture.
An embattled Evelyn said Daniel was a nice boy who did not mingle with bad friends.
She said, “My son answers Daniel in
school and Ricky at home. I went to my elder sister’s place who put to
bed and when I got home the next morning (Saturday), I couldn’t find
him. My daughter told me that they quarrelled in the night because he
woke at midnight to watch movies and she told him to stop watching movie
in the night and she said he eventually slept in the parlour while she
said she went back to sleep in the room.
“One of his younger brothers said he saw
him remove all his school books from his bag; so I asked my neighbours
whether any of them saw him and they told me that at around 5 to 6 am,
they heard sounds that somebody was opening the gate but never thought
it was my son. He doesn’t go out. What I know is that he is always
watching films in the house but he doesn’t have friends.
“I went to Oba Market police station,
they referred me to Evbuotubu police station, when I got there they said
they will declare him missing after 24 hours and that I should come
back the next day.”
Speaking on the type of person her son
is, Evelyn said, “He is always at home, I have never seen anybody come
to look for him and he doesn’t have friends. I am begging the government
to help me, because I have never been to the airport before, I have
been to Lagos before so they should help me. I don’t know how he manage
to get there but I just thank God that he is alive.
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