A breach of security was, on Sunday, recorded at a
private general aviation terminal, Execujet, within the Murtala Muhammed
Airport, Lagos, when a male teenager, Samuel Ogundeyi, suspected to be a
stowaway, was arrested in the tyre compartment of an aircraft.
According to information gathered on Sunday evening,
the aircraft was parked in the hangar of the Execujet terminal of the airport.
The teenager was said to have been discovered at about
12 noon, when pilots of the aircraft, marked M-MYNA, was carrying out a routine
inspection on the aircraft before starting the engine.
The commanding pilot was said to have detected the boy
in the tyre compartment of the aircraft, while two handsets without sim cards,
to which the suspect claimed ownership, were also found in the same
compartment.
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.”
The boy, who spoke in Yoruba and Pidgin English
languages, said he was able to cross the runway L18 over to the ExecuJet
facility located in the international wing of the airport, a distance of about
one kilometre, at night, when he noticed there was no flight landing or taking
off on the runway.
The aircraft operated by Tag Aviation was said to have
flown in a former Minister of Petroleum, Chief Dan Etcetera, into
the airport on Saturday night and parked at the private hangar, where it was
expected to take off on Sunday afternoon before the incident happened.
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