Edo State Government secures admission for him
Sixteen days after his arrest and detention, Ricky Daniel Oikhena, the stowaway teenager who hid in the wheel compartment of an Arik Air flight from Benin to Lagos is tired of staying in custody. He desperately wants to be reunited with members of his family, the same people he wanted to escape from.
Sixteen days after his arrest and detention, Ricky Daniel Oikhena, the stowaway teenager who hid in the wheel compartment of an Arik Air flight from Benin to Lagos is tired of staying in custody. He desperately wants to be reunited with members of his family, the same people he wanted to escape from.
Daniel told his unsolicited hosts, the State
Security Service (SSS), when he was asked yesterday that he wants to go home
and continue his education.
Daniel, since he was brought back from Lagos two
weeks ago, has been detained in a building at the Government House, Benin City,
in the company of security personnel. He has become lonely and somewhat
depressed.
The boy who answered questions in mono syllabics
in the lonely facility told newsmen that he was happy with the award of
scholarship granted to him by the Edo State Government.
Daniel also said he did not know that he took a
risk when he hid in an airplane’s wheel compartment saying, “I will not do it
again.”
“I regret it,” he said with a solemn and helpless
expression, adding, “I want to go home. I am tired. I will be happy to train as
an Engineer.”
