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Sunday, February 1, 2015

Suspected stowaway arrested at Lagos airport


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There was a security breach at the private general aviation terminal, Execujet, on Sunday, when a male teenager, Samuel Ogundeyi, suspected to be a stowaway, was arrested in the tyre compartment of an aircraft.
The aircraft was parked in the hangar of Execujet terminal of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
A reliable source within the private terminal, who refused to have his name in print said the teenager was discovered at about 12 noon when pilots of the aircraft marked M-MYNA, were carrying out a routine inspection on the aircraft before starting the engine.
The commanding pilot of the aircraft was said to have detected the boy in the tyre compartment of the aircraft.
The suspect also had in his possession two handsets without SIM cards, which he claimed were his.
In his confessional statement, the suspect claimed he had entered the hangar through the facility of the Headquarters, Air Defence Corps of Nigerian Air Force, located next to the Presidential/VIP Lounge in the airport, on Saturday night with the help of a person he identified only as ‘a brother’

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