The mother of the 13-year-old stowaway,
Ricky Daniel Ohikhena, who on Friday hid in
the tyrecompartment 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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