The stowaway teenager, Daniel Oikhena, who has been in the custody of the Edo State government since he was brought to Benin last week, has asked that he be allowed to go home to be with his mother and resume school.
The boy, not knowing the gravity of the risk he took when he hid in the wheel compartment of an Arik Airline Lagos-bound plane from Benin last month said that he would not do such again and he requested for him to be released.
13-year-old Daniel said “I want to go home,” and complained that he was tired and would be happy to train as an engineer.
Fortunately, the Edo State government has secured admission in one of the state’s top secondary schools for him.
The state governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, disclosed this at the Government House, Benin City, yesterday, during the visit of Mr George Uriesi, Managing Director, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and other FAAN management team.
the governor, “without meaning to encourage anyone else, we decided to support him by sending him to one of the top secondary schools in Edo State that is owned by the government. The reason for opting for a boarding school is that we think that there is need to closely watch him which his parents could not do. He is an intelligent young man with uncommon challenges, but one that has a vision. We had him examined by people who should know and the result confirmed that he is normal”, Oshiomhole said.
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