Airport police nabs undergraduate for kidnapping Lebanese passenger
Shola Adekola, Lagos
Thursday, October 16, 2008
There was a mild drama at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State on Wednesday when the airport police command paraded a student of Ladoke Akintola University (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, who was having his Industrial Training (IT) with the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), for attempting to kidnap a Lebanese on arrival at the airport.



The student, Samuel Olarewaju, was said to have posed as a protocol officer from Adamic Group of Companies with the intention of offering protocol services to the Lebanese, Mohammed Elmamud, who arrived aboard Qatar Airlines.

According to a statement issued by the Commissioner of Police, Lagos airport command, Hashimu Argungun, “the suspect was intercepted by security task force in the airport as he was leading the unsuspecting passenger away to a waiting vehicle manned by his cohorts who zoomed off on sighting him with the operatives.”

Olanrewaju, a 400-level Applied Physics student, was alleged to have posed as the protocol officer of the host company which the Lebanese was expected to meet at the airport.

“On arrival around 2.20 p.m., one Samuel Olanrewaju, of 21, Ikale Street, Ijeshatedo, Lagos and a student of LAUTECH, who was having his IT at NAMA in Ikeja, in his bid to kidnap the passenger, posed as a protocol officer from Adamic Group of Companies sent to pick the foreigner,” the statement said.


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