Mr Tijani
Owolabi an airport cleaner was arrested after he was caught with the sum of
$271,135 (about N53m) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
MrTijani Owolabi, works with one of the cleaning contractors at the airport.
MrTijani Owolabi, works with one of the cleaning contractors at the airport.
It was
revealed that some of the foreign currency was found on Owolabi while the rest
was recovered from the sanitary bucket he was holding while trying to pass
through screening machine.
The statement
by the FAAN read………..
“Aviation
security personnel of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria today September
3, 2015 prevented the trafficking of a total sum of 271,135 American dollars
through the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja.
“The sum was
found on a worker with one of the cleaning contractors at the airport, Mr.
Tijani Owolabi, during a pat down at one of the screening points at ‘D’ Finger
of the international terminal.
“The airport
cleaner who was suspected to be conveying the foreign currency to an accomplice
at the sterile area of the terminal, was immediately apprehended by aviation
security staff on duty and handed over to the appropriate security agencies at
the airport for further investigation.”
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