Suspected stowaway arrested at Lagos airport

An incident of security breach occurred at a private general aviation terminal, Execujet, on Sunday, when a male teenager Samuel Ogungbeyi suspected to be a stowaway was arrested in the tyre compartment of an aircraft.
The aircraft was parked in the hangar of the terminal at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport La­gos.
A reliable source within the private terminal told Daily Times under the con­dition of anonymity that the teenager was discovered at about noon when pilots of the aircraft, marked M-MYNA, were carrying out a routine inspection before starting the engine.
The commanding pilot was said to have detected the young man in the tyre com­partment of the aircraft.
Also two handsets with­out sim cards which the sus­pect claimed ownership of were also found in the com­partment.

In his confessional state­ment, the suspect claimed he had entered the hangar through the facility of the Headquarters, Air Defence Corp 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 run­way over to 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 Etete into Lagos air­port on Saturday night and parked at the
private hangar, where it was expected to take off yes­terday afternoon before the incident happened.
The general manager Cor­porate Communications Mr Yakubu Dati Federal Air­ports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) told Daily Times at press time that he was gath­ering details on the incident. However, a military source who sought identity protec­tion described the allegation of the stowaway entering the airside of the airport through airforce facility as an attempt by the terminal operator to cover up security lapses on its side.
The source suggested that search light be beamed on the security network of the terminal to get to the root of the matter.
Source : Daily Times