Evelyn, Mother Of The Boy Who Flew From Benin To Lagos In Arik's Plane Tyre Speaks

The mother of the 13-year-old stowaway, Ricky Daniel Ohikhena, who on Friday stowed away in the tyre compartment of an Arik plane on a flight from Benin to Lagos, was on Monday tested for a considerable length of time by a consolidated group of security agents from the Department of State Security Service and flying security. 
Furthermore she says her little son was a fantastic kid who never showed any propensity for such a risky wander. 
A troubled Evelyn said Daniel was a great kid who did not blend with awful companions.

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.” 

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.